Kerosene Lamps Quotes

#1. Some summers my father would take us down to visit our grandmother in Louisville, who was an ex-slave, Susan Jones, and she had a shotgun shack they call it, and no electricity, a well in the back, a coal stove, kerosene lamps.

Quincy Jones

#2. During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that's all I had. I wrote because that's all I had.

Laird Barron

#3. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#4. I don't get paid what people think I get paid for fighting.

Gina Carano

#5. For me, reading is remembering.

Cat Patrick

#6. The only difference between you today and a year from now are the people you know and what you have learned.

Ryan Blair

#7. What is love, Mikayel? Isn't it the most irrational of all human emotions? And the one most forbidden?

Christine Fonseca

#8. Contemporary paganism gives me a subjective lens through which the world in which I live can be interpreted on an aesthetic and an ethical basis. I'm interested in narrative, myth, and story, in folklore and the way we connect to the turning of the seasons and the natural world.

Liz Williams

#9. When you talk about locker room betting, we bet on everything ... It's no different than anyone else's office pool. Money changes hands in the locker room; it's whatever you want.

Albert Belle

#10. Live intensely and dangerously. The world may not depend on your efforts, but you do.

Eric Maisel

#11. with honesty there came communication,

R.J. Lewis

#12. The source and essence of all creation can be found everywhere. It resides equally in you, in me, and in all things. True wisdom is the fullest understanding of this essence--an understanding that can happen only when there is no separation between the knower and the known.

Victor Shamas