Ortlund Family Blog Quotes

#1. It's hard to know which made me more aware of the impossibility of protecting children - having a child die or having had two live.

Elizabeth McCracken

#2. I like new challenges and new experiences.

Ramon Rodriguez

#3. Don't insult readers by questioning the extent of their imaginations. Most need only to be nudged to solve a good mystery.

Peggy Kopman-Owens

#4. When attention is focused, minor aches and pains have no chance to register in consciousness.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#5. A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#6. Rock'n'roll starts between the legs and goes through the heart, then to the head. As long as it does those three things, it's a great rock song.

John Mellencamp

#7. If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.

Mignon McLaughlin

#8. Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time.

Emil Cioran

#9. Why, if its going to be allright, do we see it getting worse every day?

Jeanne DuPrau

#10. After midnight and no air-raid,

William L. Shirer