Phil Kearns Quotes

#1. For I am bound with fleshly bands,
Joy, beauty, lie beyond my scope;
I strain my heart, I stretch my hands,
And catch at hope.

Christina Rossetti

#2. Referees are only human, I think.

Phil Kearns

#3. Any event largely organized by elementary school teachers was likely to come off extremely well from a logistical and crowd-control standpoint.

Neal Stephenson

#4. If our suffering has a purpose, it is infinitely easier to bear than if our suffering has no purpose and no larger meaning. When a mother endures childbirth, she knows that it is leading to something life changing and glorious.

Eric Metaxas

#5. Isn't he cute? That he thinks he has a sense of humour?

Robyn Carr

#6. You can go to the end of time, the last World Cup in the history of mankind, and the All-Blacks will be favourites for it.

Phil Kearns

#7. It wasn't as if she was terrified of heights, she simply preferred to be closer to solid ground, where words like plummet and plunge did not linger in her mind.

Victoria Alexander

#8. To maintain good health requires good nutrition and a healthy dose of exercise.

DeBarra Mayo

#9. I remember coming back from training one day and Simon Poidevin was talking to a priest. I thought ... this was going to be some rough encounter because there's Poido getting the last rites before the test's even started

Phil Kearns

#10. What a burning shame it is that many of the pieces on the subject of slavery and the slave trade, contained in different school books, have been lost sight of, or been subject to the pruning knife of the slaveholding expurgatorial system!

Robert Purvis

#11. History has shown us that, on extraordinarily rare occasions, it becomes necessary for the federal government to intervene on behalf of individuals whose 14th Amendment rights to legal due process and equal protection may be violated by a state.

Michael K. Simpson

#12. Life is short. It's God's fault. Sorry.

David James Duncan

#13. For a long time, there was grief. It pulled me down into suffocating darkness, and kept me anchored there. I went through the motions. I turned up at school. I ate food and watched TV and took algebra tests. But I didn't feel anything. It was easier that way.

Lili Wilkinson

#14. Ram Bharosa says he will never forget the smile she gave him when she left the shop. She

Ruskin Bond

#15. Answered slowly: I don't know, I don't want to know. And then I admitted that there had been a kind of admiration for her body, maybe that, yes, but I ruled out anything ever happening between us. Too much fear, if we had been seen we would have been beaten to death.

Elena Ferrante

#16. Design ... is the integration of technological, social, and economical requirements, biological necessities, and the psychological effects of materials, shape, color, volume and space.

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

#17. Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.

Mary Catherine Bateson