Quotes About Abandonment In Where The Crawdads Sing

#1. It is quite in the order of things in folk-tales . . . that a parent should purchase his own safety by sacrificing his son to a ferocious animal or to a supernatural enemy.

C. Fillingham Coxwell

#2. Sacred spirit of love, fall down on me from above.

Bootsy Collins

#3. We make such terrible mistakes with visual choices about beauty.

Marina Abramovic

#4. And I never forgot this as long as I've ever performed, no matter how crap I had felt before I went on stage. I just remember Tina Turner going up there, singing her heart out for everybody, and meantime she had a 102-degree fever and she was feeling terrible.

Bryan Adams

#5. The airline business is crazy. I've not been enamored with the industry in general. You can't depend on anybody and anything. It's dog-eat-dog and one thing or another from one minute to the next. What I understand about it, I don't like what I see.

Robert Brooks

#6. If Kindle is upgraded with face recognition and biometric sensors, it can know what made you laugh, what made you sad and what made you angry. Soon, books will read you while you are reading them.

Yuval Noah Harari

#7. There's a time to talk and a time for silence.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#8. If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose.

Derek Jeter

#9. A-ha, but don't you see, not caring about the money, only caring about winning, that's a luxury. You come from money, so you have the luxury of only caring about your accomplishments.

L. H. Cosway

#10. When a dangerous path was your only route to safety, you had to take it.

Robert Jordan

#11. He who understands philosophy understands laughter. That mysterious Word at the beginning, mentioned in the Bible, is a divine guffaw.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#12. Simplicity is the essence of universality.

Mahatma Gandhi

#13. If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition ... Measure and symmetry are beauty and virtue the world over.

Socrates