Jp Patches Quotes

#1. 'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'

Mason Cooley

#2. When someone who's always been in your life is gone, it's a stunning adjustment of your own identity.

Bill Ayers

#3. There are some things you don't learn about yourself until you let someone else into the most intimate places of your heart.

Kiera Cass

#4. The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Peter De Vries

#5. I'm lucky I had parents willing to be open and believe that an 11-year-old might know what she wanted to do. Or maybe they thought I'd find out that's what I didn't want to do.

Claire Forlani

#6. My prayer became 'May I find peace ... May I love this life no matter what.' I was seeking an inner refuge, an experience of presence and wholeness that could carry me through whatever losses might come.

Tara Brach

#7. Patriarchy's chief institution is the family. It is both a mirror of and a connection with the larger society; a patriarchal unit within a patriarchal whole.

Kate Middleton

#8. Wise words are all well and good when they are spoken by wise people, but when egomaniacal assholes are tossing them around, they are just words.

Autumn Doughton

#9. Dreams change, yes, that makes sense, but I didn't know dreams could hide inside a person.

Jandy Nelson

#10. There are other advantages," continued the child. "For instance, if one rat were cornered by nine cats, on the average, each cat would be ten percent rat and the rat would be ninety percent cat. If you happened to be a rat, you can see how much nicer it would make things.

Norton Juster

#11. The third part of my life was where I was told the meaning of my life. One knows the weight of a thing when it is strong enough to bear its own meaning, to hear its own truth told to it, and yet to remain.

Jesse Ball

#12. The great value of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

James Truslow Adams

#13. Apparently, the easiest way to overcome any awkwardness of speaking about sex is to sterilize it and outsource it to the professionals.

Matthew Lee Anderson

#14. I've never had a cold Christmas, as I always spend it back home in Australia.

Mallory Jansen

#15. A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

H.G.Wells