Mother Lioness Quotes

#1. There is no formula. There are only confirmations to formulas which one has already discovered oneself.

Ernst Haas

#2. am a collection of the obsolete, a relic of the damned, of the lost and strayed. I am the waylaid pieces of history which sank out of sight in all of our pasts.

Frank Herbert

#3. I have never, in all my life, been so odious as to regard myself as 'superior' to any living being, human or animal. I just walked alone - as I have always walked alone.

Edith Sitwell

#4. There never was a woman like her. She was gentle as a dove and brave as a lioness ... The memory of my mother and her teachings were, after all, the only capital I had to start life with, and on that capital I have made my way.

Andrew Jackson

#5. To be a writer is to connect and to play and to attempt to see clearly and understand. It astounds me regularly that feeling things deeply and writing them down is basically my job description.

Deb Caletti

#6. Every building is constructed stone by stone, and the same may be said of knowledge,

George R R Martin

#7. I once got sacked for laughing ... mind you, I was driving a hearse at the time.

Bernard Manning

#8. Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

#9. If there was anything I'd learned, it's that the man never chooses the woman. All he can do is give her an opportunity to choose him.

Neil Strauss

#10. We have to slow the rhythm of rush in our lives so that the best of who are can emerge.

Lysa TerKeurst

#11. I believe in a God of a second chance and a God of love and mercy, because I need so much more of it myself.

Michael Eric Dyson

#12. I have always quested and still do for the Holy Grail, but I stopped looking in the earthen caves and in the stars. I started questing through the valleys and mountains of my own soul.

David Paul Kirkpatrick

#13. My father died when I was young, and my mother, Ruth, went to work in an office selling theater and movie parties. She put me through private school, Horace Mann, in Riverdale. She sent me to camp so that I would learn to compete. She was a lioness, and I was her cub.

Alan Furst