Overmined Quotes

#1. The body is like the earth ... as vulnerable to overbuilding, being carved into parcels, cut off, overmined, and shorn of its power as any landscape.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#2. A change is always nice.

Euripides

#3. My parents are both pastors. In the '80s and '90s in the mainstream Christian world, it was not really common for a woman - especially a married woman and a mother - to be a pastor.

Mallory Ortberg

#4. In soccer, the blindest player is the one who sees nothing but the ball.

Nelson Rodrigues

#5. Technology tools such as laptops are the kind of help that we need. A program that provides laptops for all youngsters would close a gap that most of us are not aware of, or will not admit to, which is a tremendous gap in the poor communities.

Major Owens

#6. I really believe that whoever is doing something with a strong passion is very much important to me. I love people like that.

Roshon Fegan

#7. Zoe had to do something or she would be roadkill.

David Walliams

#8. I was asked on a radio interview what my mission is, and I immediately blurted out, "God realization."

Wayne Dyer

#9. My dad should have listened to me when I told him that college was not my thing. Instead, he insisted on learning a $200,000 lesson the hard way. That's the thing about college - you pay a ton of money just to realize that everyone is a fucking moron.

Babe Walker

#10. The sidewalk was completely empty. It was Sunday, early April. An icy wind teetered trash cans and turned my cheeks to marble. In Vietnam we had no weather like that. Here in Cleveland people call it spring.

Paul Fleischman

#11. Beer bottles, whiskey bottles, brown glass, green. They fell to the lawn and I'd feel serene. Adam was king to my stilted queen.

Kate Bernheimer

#12. Since its enactment in the weeks following the September 11 terrorist attacks, the tools in the Patriot Act have been used by law enforcement to stop more than 400 terrorist threats to our families and communities.

Jim Gerlach

#13. We are important to Him not because of our resume, but because we are His children.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf