Quotes About Swofford

#1. I have to be very careful about how often I drag my family to places. They need some stability in their lives.

Gregory Harrison

#2. A person you loved has used you and hurt you, but there are more people to love, new paths to pursue, and noble tasks that only you can accomplish-for you and for your entire kingdom. If you must dwell on something dwell on that.

Kelli Swofford Nielsen

#3. The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go ... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

Barbara Kingsolver

#4. It often felt like God had merely let me into a foyer where I could hear others playing my note in another room, with no way to get to the music. And that's really what I wanted to do. I wanted to play my note. I wanted to do the thing that made me feel alive.

Susan E. Isaacs

#5. The problem is you make the tricks look good. You are a brilliant acrobat, and a witty comedian. You are skillful. People want a fool to be foolish
trip on banana peels and grin and spout nonsense. These men want fools to make them feel better about themselves, not to remind them what they lack.

Kelli Swofford Nielsen

#6. Was your old man in the war?"
"He was in the air force. He built runways."
"The fucking air farce. He ever tell you about it? Did he live?"
"Yes, he lived. He spoke once about Vietnam."
"If he only spoke about it once, he wasn't lying.

Anthony Swofford

#7. It occured to me that we will never be young again.

Anthony Swofford

#8. A story: A man fires a rifle for many years, and he goes to war. And afterward he turns the rifle in at the armory, and he believes he's finished with the rifle. But no matter what else he might do with his hands, love a woman, build a house, change his son's diaper; his hands remember the rifle.

Anthony Swofford

#9. You took my Lotus!"

Sissy choked on her champagne, and Ronnie started looking for the exits or law enforcement with arrest warrants.

Lord, what is the statute of limitations again?

Shelly Laurenston

#10. After I arrived in Mountain View, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area, I entered sixth grade and quickly grew to love my new home, family and culture. I discovered a passion for language, though it was hard to learn the difference between formal English and American slang.

Jose Antonio Vargas

#11. I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.

Natalie Portman

#12. If you consider yourself a writer just write.

Sara Gran

#13. It dosnt matter how many mr. and mrs. johnsons are anti war- the actuall killers who know how to use the weapons are not.

Anthony Swofford

#14. I think the combatant is always burdened with returning and making his way through his past. And that we as citizens have a responsibility to those guys upon return. We have to make some kind of an attempt to understand what their life is like.

Anthony Swofford

#15. Humans are a part of creation and shamanism is our way of connecting with the whole.

Will Adcock

#16. If while alive you hurt or disappoint people you love, there's no use continuing such behavior when you're dead.

Anthony Swofford

#17. Feeling happy and confident about your sex life is not about how much sex you have. It is about understanding that you get to decide what is right for you.

Sarah J. Swofford

#18. Some wars are unavoidable and need well be fought, but this doesn't erase warfare's waste. Sorry, we must say to the mothers whose son's die horribly. This will never end. Sorry.

Anthony Swofford

#19. It's amazing how people can get so excited about a rocket to the moon and not give a damn about smog, oil leaks, the devastation of the environment with pesticides, hunger, disease. When the poor share some of the power that the affluent now monopolize, we will give a damn.

Cesar Chavez

#20. New motherhood gives you an opportunity to embrace the chaos and know that you are doing the best you ca - including in your sex life.

Sarah J. Swofford

#21. My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness.

Anthony Swofford

#22. My combat action has commenced ... I've pissed my pants, but only a little.

Anthony Swofford

#23. Every war is different. Every war is the same.

Anthony Swofford