Ma Cherie Quotes

#1. How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

Walter Scott

#2. There were no public articulations of these humiliations, so we took refuge in accidental occasions to weave our resentments and hatreds into little stories that lost their impact as soon as they were told.

Azar Nafisi

#3. God created Adam master and lord of living creatures, but Eve spoilt all, when she persuaded him to set himself above God's will. 'Tis you women, with your tricks and artifices, that lead men into error.

Martin Luther

#4. Hardin, as he sat at the foot of the table, speculated idly as to just what it was that made physical scientists such poor administrators. It might be merely that they were too used to inflexible fact and far too unused to pliable people.

Isaac Asimov

#5. Writing is praying with me. You know a child would look up at every sentence and say, 'And what shall I say next?' That is just what I do; I ask Him that at every line He would give me not merely thoughts and power, but also every word, even the very rhymes.

Frances Ridley Havergal

#6. Life is a flickering candle we all carry around. A gust of wind, a meaningless accident, a microsecond of carelessness, and it's out. Forever.

David Wong

#7. I don't believe in magic, either.

J.K. Rowling

#8. I would love for someone to offer me a serious part in something. I don't know if I could even pull it off, but I would like to be the cowboy that rides off and someone shoots him off the horse in the middle of town. Just a serious role. It wouldn't have to be a big one.

Jeff Foxworthy

#9. He felt intact but worthless, like a chocolate rabbit selling for 75 percent off the month after Easter.

Douglas Coupland

#10. As the door closed behind them, the painter flung himself down on a sofa, and a look of pain came into his face.

Oscar Wilde

#11. What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.

Frederick Douglass

#12. It's impossible to be a good Christian. If you think it's easy to be a good Christian, then you're not really trying hard enough.

John Tesh

#13. The rise of statism in our time is the natural result of the longing of godless, unchurched people for some kind of protection. When we lose to God we turn to what looks like the next most powerful thing, which is the state. How bad a choice that is, let Germany and Russia in recent years testify.

Sam Shoemaker

#14. I am Jose Mourinho and I don't change. I arrive with all my qualities and my defects.

Jose Mourinho

#15. We damaged all the big guns we could, and carried away the powder and the lead.

Chief Joseph