Kikkar Quotes

#1. New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up

E.B. White

#2. At a certain point, you have to face the fact that you've turned into an old fart.

Robert Gottlieb

#3. Writing is a kind of revenge against circumstance too: bad luck, loss, pain. If you make something out of it, then you've no longer been bested by these events.

Louise Gluck

#4. The biggest mistake you can make is thinking you know who you are.

J.P. Bloch

#5. I grew up Protestant. My dad was a Charismatic pastor of the Families of God denomination. Often, we noticed that - during a lot of his evangelistic-type services - that some of the Amish and Old Order Mennonite couples would come and stand across the street from the church and look in the door.

Beverly Lewis

#6. The more we get what we now call 'ourselves' out of the way and let Him take us over, the more truly ourselves we become.

C.S. Lewis

#7. They watched her sit, holding the bundle up before her, the lamp just at her elbow belabored by a moth whose dark shape cast upon her face appeared captive within the delicate skull, the thin and roselit bone, like something kept in a china mask

Cormac McCarthy

#8. I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.

Garth Nix

#9. We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that advances in treatment and prevention of disease do not constitute a new basis for discrimination.

Olympia Snowe

#10. Country Music is great music because it really comes from real life experiences. It is such a great haven for reality.

Bryan White

#11. Spiritual practices are ways of becoming awake and staying awake to God.

Brian D. McLaren