Sarah Weston Chronicles Quotes

#1. It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.

George Ade

#2. All those years I'd kept an outline of my father in my head, like a chalk line enclosing a father-shaped space. When I was little, I'd coloured it in often enough. But those colours had been too bright and the outline had been too large ...

Margaret Atwood

#3. One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists.

Carter G. Woodson

#4. Second-hand gloves will become lovely again, their memories are what give them the need for other hands. And the desolation of lovers is the same: that enormous emptiness carved out of such tiny beings as we are asks to be filled; the need for the new love is faithfulness to the old.

Galway Kinnell

#5. The little cakes were iced in white, with golden yellow icing roses on top, and instead of ice cream there was sherbet that was a rainbow of colors in each dish.

Jane Louise Curry

#6. Give people plenty and security, and they will fall into spiritual torpor.

Charles A. Murray

#7. Humanity is defined by its struggles, not doomed by them. It is in the way we endure those struggles that we transcend our lower nature and enter a higher realm.

D.J. Niko

#8. This leaf has fallen from its mother and withered. Yet the tree does not mourn the loss. While barren, it stands tall, ready to bear the burden of winter, for it knows that through hardship comes renewal.

D.J. Niko

#9. I want you to understand that your first duty is to humanity. I want others to look at us and see that we care not just about ourselves but about others.

Madam C. J. Walker

#10. I always say your body is the temple of your spirit, why not decorate it? My kids say, no, no, your body is the temple of your spirit, keep it clean. I'm covered in tattoos and I get a tattoo every time I write a book. I get the tattoo from the book.

Bill Ayers

#11. It's so easy to lie. What's even worse is how we cling to those lies. We beg for the illusion so we don't have to face the truth, don't have to feel alone.

Karen Marie Moning