Sierra's Quotes

#1. Where's Bennie?" Nydia said. Bennie was Sierra's best friend, and it wasn't like her to miss a practice. "She at some Super Saiyan dorkmeister overnight camp upstate for the week," Sierra said. "Learning how to make robots or computers or planets or something.

Daniel Jose Older

#2. Wrinkles was her big gray cat. Sierra named him Wrinkles because when he was a little baby he had a wrinkly face. He slept in Sierra's room, but not always on the bed. Mommy said that was 'cause Wrinkles had an attitude. Most cats had attitudes, actually.

Karen Kingsbury

#3. God is bigger than our sins. God wants you as you are - stumbling, sinning, confused.

Sierra Simone

#4. Whatever happens after this, I just want you to know that this was worth it. You were worth it. You were worth everything.

Sierra Simone

#5. There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible circumstances. It is not limited to Sierra Leone. This story could apply to any number of places where ordinary people have been caught up in political events beyond their control.

Edward Zwick

#6. We are entwined. I drew power from the spirits and spirit workers and I returned it to them tenfold. The true source of shadowshaper magic is in that connection, community, Sierra. We are interdependent.

Daniel Jose Older

#7. Guinea has managed to go 42 days consecutively without any new Ebola infections. And that comes after neighboring Sierra Leone and Liberia, the other two West African countries that were hardest hit by Ebola, have been through the same cycle of zero Ebola cases.

Ofeibea Quist-Arcton

#8. Do you taste that?" I ask, pressing the pads of my fingertips onto her tongue. "That's the taste of the pussy I'm about to fuck.

Sierra Simone

#9. There is a mountain range behind the town, called the Sierra de Sangre de Cristo. It means the 'Blood of Christ Mountains' in Spanish.

Douglas Preston

#10. You don't think I'm Satan, do you?"
"Of course not." She smiled across the table at him. "Snidely Whiplash, maybe. But not Satan.

Sierra Donovan

#11. Of all the mountain ranges I have climbed, I like the Sierra Nevada the best.

John Muir

#12. I used to take it personally when a casting director didn't like me or I didn't get picked for something. Now I realize you can't do that. It'll mess with your self-esteem. Don't take rejection overly personally. If that doesn't work out, there's something else waiting for you.

Sierra McCormick

#13. You don't have to go through your life being a dumbnuts. Relax a little. You don't have to be responsible for the whole world. The earth was in orbit when we got here, and it will be here when we leave. - Erin

Sierra Cartwright

#14. Reservations and cloth napkins are really minor pinnacles in the high sierra of the New York lunch. The zenith, the Mount Whitney of lunches, the noon meal at which all local lines of force converge [is] the Bar Room of the Four Seasons.

Raymond Sokolov

#15. I think they do have to get it right in Sierra Leone. There has to be something in there now to establish confidence, to stabilize the situation, and then to move to some sort of political negotiations.

Alex Morrison

#16. You are enough. You are so enough, it is unbelievable how enough you are.

Sierra Boggess

#17. I am light and stardust in his hands.

Sierra Abrams

#18. Her eyelashes made me hard. That was a new benchmark for me, I had to admit.

Sierra Simone

#19. BDSM is about dropping the pretenses; I want you completely exposed.

Sierra Cartwright

#20. In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.

Ishmael Beah

#21. A lot of people are like, "You're doing commercials?" And I honestly feel like those Sierra Mist commercials are better than a lot of sitcoms I get offered. It's hard work, and I'm paid a lot of money, and I do it because I love the soda.

Jim Gaffigan

#22. Sierra Leone and Liberia must remain vigilant, that if you think somebody is sick with Ebola, you must get help immediately. Otherwise there could be a resurgence of Ebola. So everybody must remain vigilant.

Ofeibea Quist-Arcton

#23. And if I ever thought Ash held all the power in their relationship, I see it clearly now. Embry holds my husband's heart in his hands and he doesn't even know it. He's too busy looking at the details of Ash's faces to see the expression, too busy being in love to see how loved he is.

Sierra Simone

#24. Because I've known you for ten years, and it feels so desperately like no time at all, and I need more." I

Sierra Simone

#25. Tell me you're eighteen," he whispered. "I'm not." "Damn you." And then he tilted my face back up to his, and his mouth came down over mine anyway.

Sierra Simone

#26. It bothered me that he was perfect. It bothered me that I hated him. It bothered me that I hated him and he still made me feel itchy and out of control. It

Sierra Simone

#27. I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and explored in Yosemite in the High Sierra.

Galen Rowell

#28. Eugenia's mouth formed an O shape, her eyes wide and a little wet.
Now I had not only told her Santa wasn't real, I'd told her the Easter Bunny went on killing sprees to eat the children who didn't find his eggs.

Sierra Dean

#29. How sad is it that in my world a human killer would be the best-case scenario?

Sierra Dean

#30. The sight of the fair young girl, as frank and wholesome as the Sierra breezes, had stirred his volcanic, untamed heart to its very depths.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#31. Oh, and I spend a lot of time on The Walking Dead reddit. Too much time. Last night I stayed up until two a.m. arguing with some neckbeard about whether or not you could kill a zombie with another zombie's spinal column.

Sierra Simone

#32. Fifteen minutes later, Betsy came thundering down the stairs. "I'm going to the mall with Sierra to see a movie."
Michael leaned forward, switched off the television. "Can you please rephrase that in the form of a question?"
"Sure. Can I have some money?

Kristin Hannah

#33. She had trouble keeping her mouth shut when she didn't agree with someone or felt they were just plain stupid.

Sierra Hill

#34. nothing like it. The temperature on the north side of the Sierra Nevada stayed

Chris Stewart

#35. Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today.
(Interview, Sierra Magazine, May/June 2005)

Jared Diamond

#36. He reached up and traced her cheek with the outside of his fingers. "Guys like me look for reasons. We look for explanations. I've been trying for hours to make sense out of this, and I only know two things. When it comes to you and Santa Claus, 'sense' doesn't work. And I love you.

Sierra Donovan

#37. I want to go to Sierra Leone with something - whether it's some sort of contribution to healthcare, or to the entertainment industry. My cousin is a nurse; we are talking about opening a clinic.

Idris Elba

#38. Edgar Wayburn has worked to preserve the most breath-taking examples of the American landscape. In fact, over the course of more than a half-century, both as President of the Sierra Club and as a private citizen, he has saved more of our wilderness than any person alive.

William J. Clinton

#39. The coniferous forests of the Yosemite Park, and of the Sierra in general, surpass all others of their kind in America, or indeed the world, not only in the size and beauty of the trees, but in the number of species assembled together, and the grandeur of the mountains they are growing on.

John Muir

#40. This one goes out to my fiancee," he said softly, locking eyes with mine. "The most beautiful, violent, terrifying, wonderful girl I've ever met. This is to our time together, Bex.

Sierra Rose

#41. Whenever I speak at the United Nations, UNICEF or elsewhere to raise awareness of the continual and rampant recruitment of children in wars around the world, I come to realize that I still do not fully understand how I could have possibly survived the civil war in my country, Sierra Leone.

Ishmael Beah

#42. Nothing felt real, nothing felt intimate or close or true - it all
seemed like a terrible movie of my life that I was being forced to watch from hundreds of feet away.

Sierra Simone

#43. The Sierra Club is a very good and a very powerful force for conservation and, as a matter of fact, has grown faster since I left than it was growing while I was there! It must be doing something right.

David R. Brower

#44. Sometimes people ask me how difficult the astronaut program was, but being in Sierra Leone, being responsible for the health of more than 200 people, seven days a week, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, at age 26 - that prepared me to take on a lot of different challenges.

Mae Jemison

#45. Just because it's not common doesn't mean it's wrong," I

Sierra Simone

#46. I wanted to eat her, like a wolf in a fairy tale. I wanted to crush her to my chest until she was part of me, her atoms commingling with my atoms. I wanted to bend her, break her and then watch her beg for more.

Sierra Simone

#47. when evoking personal recollections, patients with depersonalization often complain that memories feel as if they really didn't happen to them

Mauricio Sierra

#48. From high school, you can see my Sierra Club card - I've been a member since 1979. That gives you an indication of early interest.

Mike Quigley

#49. How many spanks have you had, Julia?" Damien asked.
"Two, Sir."
"What colour are you on?"
"Mortification," she mumbled.

Sierra Cartwright

#50. You wonder why I don't
answer your 3 a.m. phone calls.
When you say "I miss you",
I begin to undress myself out of habit.

Sierra DeMulder

#51. The first step to understanding anything - whether it's the Bible or Fifty Shades of Grey - is acknowledging that we come to it with agendas of our own. We want it to mean something, we are biased whether we know it or not, and usually what we walk away with is what we want to walk away with.

Sierra Simone

#52. The best user experiences are enchanting. They help the user enter an alternate reality, whether it's the world of making music, writing, sharing photos, coding, or managing a project.

Kathy Sierra

#53. I am alive. I am so alive. It's unbelievable how alive I am.

Sierra Boggess

#54. If I'm at a party, I can put on some crazy dance moves. However, it's not synchronized, beautiful or choreographed like a ballet dancer. I'd love to be graceful like that.

Sierra McCormick

#55. I would say I was jock. I went to Sierra College. I was a big baseball player. Getting into the MLB was my dream - to become a left-handed pitcher for the Yankees. That's what I was hoping, but life kind of went the other way.

Ryan Guzman

#56. As for the Mormons one meets, however their doctrines be regarded, they will be found as rich in human kindness as any people in all our broad land, while the dark memories that cloud their earlier history will vanish from the mind as completely as when we bathe in the fountain azure of the Sierra.

John Muir

#57. The Sierra Club in the United States has now really come out for population control and reduction.

Susan George

#58. But my prevailing theory at the moment was this fucking booth.

Sierra Simone

#59. For some dark reason you heretics come in droves to this House of God. Its light attracts you, but you are incapable of recognizing that.

Javier Sierra

#60. Moraga's expedition of 1806 added further to the nomenclature of the Sierra. After crossing the San Joaquin his party came to a place which his men called Las Mariposas because of the swarms of butterflies (mariposas) which flew into their eyes and ears.

Francis P. Farquhar

#61. There are some subjects in school that I love, but it can still feel like a chore. Acting never feels like a chore.

Sierra McCormick

#62. dropped to my knees. My face was level with her belly button, and I touched my forehead against her belly, breathing in and out as something so foreign I couldn't name it soared inside me, expanded until I thought my chest would crack open with it.

Sierra Simone

#63. Twitter, for all its good, is a hate amplifier.

Kathy Sierra

#64. No Sierra landscape that I have seen holds anything truly dead or dull, or any trace of what in manufactories is called rubbish or waste; everything is perfectly clean and pure and full of divine lessons.

John Muir

#65. Just make people better at something they want to be better at.

Kathy Sierra

#66. I was going to see Ivy today and that was all that mattered.

Sierra Simone

#67. Your body is the house you grew up in. How dare you try to burn it to the ground.

Sierra DeMulder

#68. I want a man who is sunny-side up, with a large sausage, and two hot buns.

Sierra Cartwright

#69. By law, super PACs are required to disclose their donors. There are groups that have never had to disclose their donors, non-profits such as the Sierra Club, Planned Parenthood, the NAACP, and the NRA. If you want more disclosure, super PACs are a step forward.

Bradley A. Smith

#70. I realized that I'd destroyed my legitimacy with myself, and maybe that was worse than my public legitimacy being destroyed.

Sierra Simone

#71. I loved you head over handles
like my first bicycle accident
before the mouthful of gravel and blood,
I swore we were flying.
-Cycle of Abuse

Sierra DeMulder

#72. Bear Valley is the hidden treasure of the Sierra.

Lloyd Bridges

#73. I slowly sunk in, using one hand to gentle and stroke Ivy as I did. I wanted her to know how much I worshipped her. I wanted her to feel every inch of my need for her. I wanted her to come while I was so deep inside of her that she couldn't tell where she ended and I began.

Sierra Simone

#74. I don't know what you call it when you fuck someone's ass raw, Father Bell, but that's what I call it.

Sierra Simone

#75. Upgrade your user, not your product. Value is less about the stuff and more about the stuff the stuff enables. Don't build better cameras - build better photographers.

Kathy Sierra

#76. Because, despite everything, I wanted to be his little slut still. If he had ordered me to my knees to suck him off right there on the ballroom floor, I would have.

Sierra Simone

#77. This was summer at Sierra Camp, perhaps no different from

Paul Kalanithi

#78. Love is a beautiful man bearing caffeine.

Sierra Dean

#79. I was sad to leave, but I was also pleased to have met people outside of Sierra Leone. Because if I was to get killed upon my return, I knew that a memory of my existence was alive somewhere in the world.

Ishmael Beah

#80. There was a beat of perfect completeness, a moment where I felt as if I could pluck each and every atom out of the air, where magic and God and something sweetly beyond complete understanding was real, completely real.

Sierra Simone

#81. And your life,' Katie said to Christy, 'is turning into a rather predictable romance. Girl meets boy. Boy is a dork for four years. Girl blossoms into a gorgeous woman. Boy finds his brain. Girl turns into starry-eyed mush head.

Robin Jones Gunn

#82. I don't know if everything will be okay . It may not be. You may think you are the lowest point now and then look up one day and see that its gotten so much worse.

Sierra Simone

#83. And please watch over the babies trapped in limbo. In the name of the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit, amen.

Sierra Simone

#84. Mandy stammered. "I've never been to a town council meeting."
"No reason you should. They're kind of like root canals." Jake straightened a tie that didn't need straightening. "You don't go in for one unless you really need to.

Sierra Donovan

#85. That some people were born wrong, born all warped and empty inside, that I was born without the parts that made people brave or pure or good. I knew that I was born without a conscience, or maybe a

Sierra Simone

#86. Boys are stupid, throw rocks at them.

SIERRA

#87. There really wasn't an environmental movement 30 years ago. The Sierra Club national office in 1969 consisted of one full-time volunteer.

Denis Hayes

#88. This probably sounds ridiculous. Like a modern Edith Wharton novel or something.

Sierra Simone

#89. I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in '52, walked the plank there in '69, founded Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters after that.

David R. Brower

#90. She took a sip of the coffee and then said, "Manna. Thank you, Sir."
"Now I really do know how to punish you."
She curled both hands around the mug. "You wouldn't take away my coffee!"
"Only if I feared for my life," he said, carrying food to the table.

Sierra Cartwright

#91. I thought, this is what it's like to be torn apart for love. This is what it means to be reborn.

Sierra Simone

#92. And sometimes I misbehave on purpose."
"Seriously?!"
"It's called being a brat. Ben will sometimes indulge me [and punish me], but occasionally I have to listen to a lecture about asking for what I want. And those times, I get sent to bed without an orgasm.

Sierra Cartwright

#93. Love doesn't mean anything until someone comes into your life and gives it meaning

Sierra Rose

#94. For many years, Sierra had compared the Holy Spirit to the wind, as it said the the Bible, noting that it was always there, no matter how faint the breeze. The wind went where it wanted to go, and its path was easy to detect because it moved objects and people. But no one had ever seen the wind.

Robin Jones Gunn

#95. I do Sierra Mist commercials not because they pay me a lot of money or because it only takes a couple of days. I do it because I have a respect for all sodas and I like to communicate that. Some people say soda, some people say pop, where I'm from in Indiana they called it breakfast.

Jim Gaffigan

#96. Not only was Sierra the sweetest, most sensual woman he knew, she f-ing owned him. Even if she didn't know it yet.

Katie Reus

#97. That area environmentally is a waste. You can't do anything. I don't care if the Sierra Club goes out there. It is fully polluted! You're not only going to work to clean up the environment, but also you will put people to work.

Richard M. Daley

#98. So many networks of love and heartbreak, so many deep folds and layers to a person's heart.

Sierra Simone

#99. For someone who has sinned as much as I have, every moment of contemplation becomes an unexpected gift from the Creator Himself.

Javier Sierra

#100. Ishmael Beah was born and spent his childhood in Sierra Leone as that sad but beautiful West African country was ravaged by a civil war that left some 50,000 dead between 1991 and 2002. He was a child soldier for a while, then, through extraordinary circumstances, was set free of that life.

Carolyn See