National Bestfriend Day 2021 Quotes

#1. In many ways, each of us is the sum total of what our ancestors were. The virtues they had may be our virtues, their strengths our strengths, and, in a way, their challenges could be our challenges.

James E. Faust

#2. On the road of life ... Meet people where they are, Accept who they are. And there are some folks that you need to leave where they are ... Keep walking.

Denise Linn

#3. You're brave. You're good. Why would you hesitate to explore yourself? Your dark nooks and crannies? With someone who is fascinated by the whole of you? You aren't a bad woman, merely a human one, which entails a certain amount of" - he cocked his head - "'awfulness,' as you call it.

Judith Ivory

#4. Persecution of Christians is growing around the world, and Congress needs to pay more attention to it.

Elliott Abrams

#5. I'm just a loud Irish guy.

Bill O'Reilly

#6. The Fates seldom forget the bargains made with them, or fail to ask for compound interest.

Edith Wharton

#7. I'm from Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. So, you grow up around police officers. Some of them are in your family, some of them you have encounters with. I had a young police officer we were friends with in our group.

Tracy Morgan

#8. Suddenly absurdism wasn't an intellectual abstraction, it was actually realism. You could see the way that wealth was begetting wealth, wealth was begetting comfort - and that the cumulative effect of an absence of wealth was the erosion of grace.

George Saunders

#9. I was turning up at sets where inexperienced people were making these badly written films - but they were doing it; that was the point. They were getting their films out there. And they were paying me, so they obviously had access to money. I just thought, 'I can make something better than this.'

Dexter Fletcher

#10. I stand morally opposed to killing: war, executions, killing of the old and demented, the killing of children, unborn and born. . . . I believe that all of life is sacred and must be protected, especially in the vulnerable stages at the beginning of life and its end.

Helen Prejean

#11. The strength of a tree, the old ones say, comes not from growing thicker in the good years when there is water, but from staying alive in the bad, dry times.

Joseph M. Marshall III

#12. Torture, after all, is inconspicuous; all it needs is water, a piece of wood and a loud voice. It takes place in squalid rooms, dirty back yards and basements, and there is nothing left to preserve when it is over.

Eric Lomax

#13. I sit with my toes in a brook, And if any one axes forwhy? I hits them a rap with my crook, For 'tis sentiment does it, says I.

Horace Walpole

#14. Leo Connellan has retained his soul and voice in Provincetown and Other Poems.

Karl Shapiro