Missionary Return Quotes

#1. There is no education but self-education.

Charlotte M. Mason

#2. One cannot escape one's fate - whether good or bad; she leaves memories in us.

Sharlyn G. Branson

#3. No matter how much you reach the moon...you can never actually grab it. Even if one knows that something is unreachable it's human nature to want to try over and over...again and again..not giving up...not able to give up...dreaming that someday that hand will reach the moon.

Kiyo Fujiwara

#4. My Chinese zodiac is a dog. But I'm an exception because of how much I love cats.

Jason Wu

#5. If there is disturbance in the camp, the general's authority is weak.

Sun Tzu

#6. Initially they waited with hope, but as each hour passed, hope slipped away like the wind, the wind that as a small boy Ethan had once tried to capture with his tiny fingers.

K. Martin Beckner

#7. Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.

Thomas Mann

#8. In college, I was told the market can't be beat.

Louis Navellier

#9. That uncivilized heathen nations should first be civilized, and then Christianized, is a sentiment of the past. Now it is coming more and more to be acknowledged, that the Bible is the great civilizer of the nations.

Stephen Return Riggs

#10. Woman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong especially to her.

Honore De Balzac

#11. Dedicated missionary service returns a dividend of eternal joy which extends throughout mortality and into eternity.

Thomas S. Monson

#12. She was like a wounded animal, he thought, looking at her. Fear and pain were in every line of her - in the taut stillness of her form and in her watchful, wary stare. She wanted to be alone, to lick her wounds, and though she'd been that way all along, he couldn't let her stay that way.

Laura Lee Guhrke

#13. Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity.

Ovid

#14. What's beyond logic happens beneath will;
nor can these moments be translated: i say
that even after April
by God there is no excuse for May

E. E. Cummings

#15. When you want to talk about honor, they want to talk about money. When you want to talk about money, they want to talk about gentility. They either get the notion of honor or they don't. And if they don't, you probably shouldn't be fucking with them.

Liam Rector

#16. If you are a good missionary, you will return home with the desire to continue to serve the Lord, to keep His commandments, and to do His will.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#17. And I said, "I needed to sit down and be quiet and think." And he said, "OK, let's keep it simple. What are you doing at the railway station?" And I said, "I'm going to see Mother." And he said, "Mother?

Mark Haddon

#18. I bemoan the fact that all my famous friends have places in St. Bart's and I have to go to Montauk.

Rufus Wainwright