Quotes About Covington

#1. This is the most I have ever been in the sewers in one place. If someone had said to me a month ago, 'Hey, Jackal, guess where you'll be spending most of your time in New Covington? Ankle-deep in shit!' I would've ripped their lips off.

Julie Kagawa

#2. As Dennis Covington has written, "Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend." 7-20

Philip Yancey

#3. Old age breeds the miracle of recall. You have no short-term memory atall; you can't remember what you did minutes ago, but you can recall with exquisite clarity what you did on your fifth birthday and how it all felt.

Vicki Covington

#4. The shape of your life depends upon whether you choose to be the sculptor or the clay.

Pamela M. Covington

#5. I chose to spend the day with you. And I'm choosing now to have dinner with you.

Lisa Brown Roberts

#6. The choice was whether to be sad and foolish or sad and reasonable.

Vicki Covington

#7. Explain to me, if you will, why alcoholism is a disease but can only be treated by attending little spiritual meetings in basements.

Vicki Covington

#8. Trauma is any stressor that occurs in a sudden and forceful way and is experienced as overwhelming.

Stephanie S. Covington

#9. His parents were tiny people and knew how to dance. Scotty danced, too, with a variety of women, I'm sure, though I never acknowledged this to myself until years later. He knew charm.

Vicki Covington

#10. To say that I enjoyed writing ... is like saying I enjoy having fingers and toes. It's difficult to imagine life without them.

Dennis Covington

#11. If there's one thing I learned in Alanon, it's that you got to face the music because it just grows louder when you ignore it.

Vicki Covington

#12. Feeling after God is dangerous business.

Dennis Covington

#13. We are all but borrowed energy

Perry Covington

#14. Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend.

Dennis Covington

#15. Neva ought to smile more. It breaks her anxiety into tiny pieces of joy you want to gather up and hand back to her in your palms, as if to say, See what you can make when you loose the reins.

Vicki Covington

#16. It was deep afternoon when shadows begin to grow, light becomes gold, and you realize that this particular day has reached its destiny. Like old age, it's not yet over, but there's no denying the time of day.

Vicki Covington

#17. All I know is that I am excessively calculating, especially when I appear not to be.

Dennis Covington

#18. All the men I know add that "hands that prepared it" line. They must know it's right complimentary, an incentive to keep the women cooking.

Vicki Covington

#19. I had a whole evening planned. I was hoping to sweep you off your feet. Like those guys in your stupid books.

Lisa Brown Roberts

#20. I'll never let the voices in my head talk me out of the desires of my heart.

Stacey Covington-Lee

#21. I'm serious, now let me know every time you see her cry. The thought brings me great joy. Hope.

Vicki Covington

#22. Take away the Holocaust and what do you have left? Without their precious Holocaust, what are the Jews? Just a grubby little bunch of international bandits and assassins and squatters who have perpetrated the most massive, cynical fraud in human history.

Harold Covington

#23. THE REAL PURPOSE OF HOLOCAUST REVISIONISM IS TO MAKE NATIONAL SOCIALISM AN ACCEPTABLE POLITICAL ALTERNATIVE AGAIN.

Harold Covington

#24. Everything about her always seemed to dance. Her lips as she spoke, her eyes as she laughed, even her hands as she made the cup of coffee I just ordered.

Holli True

#25. No, I'm not one of those guys. I'd never get anything done if I rescued everyone who needed it. But I do like to help people I care about. That's why I'm here with you right now.

Lisa Brown Roberts

#26. Endings are the most important part of stories. They grow inevitably from the stories themselves.

Dennis Covington

#27. Make it What you want it to Be!

Joey Covington

#28. An exacting account of the processes by which things fall apart. The scope is breathtaking ... the clarity and lyricism of the writing itself left me with repeated gasps of recognition about the human condition. I believe it will be a classic.

Dennis Covington

#29. With you, it's... I don't even know how to say it. It's like you're a work of art. Every time I'm with you, I see something new. Something beautiful.

Lisa Brown Roberts

#30. But there are some things better left in the past.

Kim Karr

#31. I was that kind of tired you feel when you've spent a day in a hospital while a loved one undergoes surgery and comes through all right, the loved one, of course, being myself, and Christmas being the surgical procedure.

Vicki Covington

#32. At the heart of the impulse to tell stories is a mystery so profound.

Dennis Covington

#33. Understanding trauma and that we each respond to it differently will help us be supportive and nonjudgmental toward each other.

Stephanie S. Covington

#34. Part of the process in healing from trauma, like recovering from addiction, is developing connection and support with others.

Stephanie S. Covington

#35. Announcements are best kept intact until stomachs are satisfied. News settles easier when blood sugar is stable.

Vicki Covington

#36. Knowing where you come from is one thing, but it's suicide to stay there.

Dennis Covington

#37. I'm so sorry about all you're going through, but I'm not sorry that it brought you to me.

Lisa Brown Roberts

#38. I've never known a tranquil atheist. Don't they always look like they just sat on a tack?

Vicki Covington