Longnecker Nursery Quotes

#1. I am humiliated in my need, even to myself.

Hope Jahren

#2. Be careful what you ask for because when you pray for rain, you have to deal with the mud as well.

Denzel Washington

#3. The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take.

Henry James

#4. Take seriously the criticisms on yourself, then you move forward; ignore the criticisms on yourself, then you move backwards because in every criticism there is at the least some truth!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. But don't define yourself by what you *don't* want to do. Define yourself by what you do want to do.

Sarah Addison Allen

#6. I could spend a lifetime
delighting in the image of the Friend
But once my heart beholds the Friend
then the pain becomes more precious
than a thousand delights.

Rumi

#7. For me, as an actress, one of the most essential things that I need to know is what do I want for and from the people around me in the story.

Mary McDonnell

#8. A lion of truth never assumes anything without validity. Assumptions are quick exits for lazy minds that like to graze out in the fields without bother.

Suzy Kassem

#9. I believe that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act must be reformed. We must improve the American public's confidence in, and perception of, our national security programs, by increasing transparency, strengthening oversight, and safeguarding civil liberties.

Dutch Ruppersberger

#10. I'm not sure my belly button is exactly in the middle. I wonder what that means..

Graham Parke

#11. I was born on a bench in the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris, in the early spring of 1960.

Andre Brink

#12. I wish I could take my brain and put it inside your head," Winslow said. "Just for a moment. Then you'd know what all I can't find how to say.

Alan Heathcock