Rhiannons Apothecary Quotes

#1. Private-sector firms are increasingly active in the prison industry and they and the militantly unionized correctional officers, almost all unskilled labor, constantly lead public demands for more criminal statutes and more draconian penalties.

Conrad Black

#2. The instant of birth is exquisite. Pain and joy are one at this moment. Ever after, the dim recollection is so sweet that we speak to our children with a gratitude they never understand.

Madeline Tiger Bass

#3. Forgetfulness of self is remembrance of God.

Bayazid Bastami

#4. I'd rather be with you than be with me and something's wrong with that.

Jenoyne Adams

#5. I wanted to write something in a voice that was unique to who I was. And I wanted something that was accessible to the person who works at Dunkin Donuts or who drives a bus, someone who comes home with their feet hurting like my father, someone who's busy and has too many children, like my mother.

Sandra Cisneros

#6. I was extremely curious growing up. I taught myself how to sew, French braid, and cook. When I wasn't creating things with my hands, I was learning more about tech. I was experimenting with email at nine, had my first cell phone at 13, and was truly obsessed with the Internet as a teenager.

Brit Morin

#7. One conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study in a public school.

D.B. Patterson

#8. It has always been my conviction that Indian parents who train their children to think and talk in English from their infancy betray their children and their country. They

Mahatma Gandhi

#9. Information can be considered as order wrenched from disorder.

James Gleick

#10. That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.

A.R. Ammons