Reynolds Price Quotes

#1. Novelist Reynolds Price said there is one sentence all humankind craves to hear: The Maker of all things loves and wants me.

Philip Yancey

#2. In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.

Ted Cruz

#3. What I still ask for daily-for life as long as I have work to do, and work as long as I have life.

Reynolds Price

#4. Life is short and often stingy; feast the heart with what it craves, short of cruelty, and let the world wonder.

Reynolds Price

#5. Writing is a fearsome but grand vocation - potentially healing but likewise deadly. I wouldn't trade my life for the world.

Reynolds Price

#6. Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you.

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#7. The sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives.

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#8. [W]hen you align yourself exclusively with one party, and weaponize yourself in that party's cause, you're going to pay the price when the other party is in power. That's the price you pay for whoring yourself out.

Glenn Reynolds

#9. The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.

Reynolds Price

#10. Girl power in my mind is to let girls be exactly what they are. Let them be angry. Let them be resentful. And rebellious. Let them be hard and soft and loving and sad and silly. Let them be wrong. Let them be right. Let them be everything. because, they are everything.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

#11. Even now, after whatever gains feminism has made in involving fathers in the rearing of their children, I still think virtually all of us spend the most formative years of our lives very much in the presence of women.

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#12. The only thing more destructive than a tornado is a family.

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#13. Cities are the least permanent things in our civilization.

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#14. Southerners ask intimate questions in the way monkeys groom each other for lice, not to pry but to make you feel cared for.

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#15. I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern.

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#16. As a child I thought it was very boring when I had to sit with [my mother] on the city streets, but the time sank deep and surfaced later.

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#17. "I'm glad there's been so much laughter in the audience tonight."
"But they're not laughing with you. They're laughing at you."

Terry Wogan

#18. Many Americans would die naked in the middle of the road before they'd tell you what's hurt them most. But a born Southerner will show you the cell in their heart that burns the hardest. They'll hold it out to you in their bare right hand.

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#19. From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out what I really meant was I was someone who was very interested in watching the world and making copies of it.

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#20. Music has always been really important to me.

Gabrielle Giffords

#21. What you know and feel matters, but what you do matters more."
- Troika

Gena Showalter

#22. Strength just comes in one brand - you. Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you and keep your hair combed

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#23. The death of every art form seems imminent at least once in every century; but while the very funeral arrangements go forward, some child is born who is Michelangelo, Picasso, Yeats.

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