Madrona Tree Quotes

#1. The things that save you are as frequently trivial as monumental.

Andrew Solomon

#2. Nothing further then he uttered--not a feather then he fluttered-- Till I scarcely more than muttered, "Other friends have flown before-- On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before." Then the bird said, "Nevermore.

Edgar Allan Poe

#3. Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics.

Lord Chesterfield

#4. All that we need to know all the wisdom of the cosmos we will find in our own heart

Mother Teresa

#5. As the campfire burned to an ashy bowl of red-hot embers, the boys would ramble on, piling up horror upon horror, like cordwood stacked under a blood-red-barked madrona tree.

Gregg Olsen

#6. The hottest year in global [sic] history was 1934.

Glenn Beck

#7. Yes, sir, there are things to see and do on the French Riviera without spending money.

Robert A. Heinlein

#8. To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process.

John Lewis

#9. Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga.

J. Courtney Sullivan

#10. It's not very glamorous. People certainly wouldn't think so if they saw me sitting in my woolly socks at the kitchen table. Many times I sit at the typewriter and think, 'Why am I doing this?'

Penny Jordan

#11. Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.

Grace Jones

#12. Your mission: feel good about who you are, what you do, how you think, and how you look
without needing anybody's approval!

Karen Salmansohn

#13. The worst thing I've done on a date? Ask who her favorite serial killer is. Under a bridge. In the dark.

Anyta Sunday

#14. 463. - There is often more pride than goodness in our grief for our enemies' miseries; it is to show how superior we are to them, that we bestow on them the sign of our compassion.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld