Susan Kidwell Quotes

#1. We all knew where the goop originated and could have defended ourselves, but the origin of the fusillade doubled as the center of the action. Once the baby's scalp protruded, we all hunkered down and braced ourselves.

David Z. Hirsch

#2. A growing community must integrate three elements: a life of silent prayer, a life of service and above all of listening to the poor, and a community life through which all its members can grow in their own gift.

Jean Vanier

#3. You are what you are, because of, or in spite of past experiences

Anonymous

#4. A solemn state of mind is never crude or simple - it seems to contain a certain measure of its own opposite in solution. A solemn joy preserves a sort of bitter in its sweetness; a solemn sorrow is one to which we intimately consent.

William James

#5. Knowledge is the antidote to fear

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. Sometimes a tough girl who is used to saving herself needs a hero. And

Ker Dukey

#7. I'm spending nights just dreaming / And playing the music loud / They're banging on the ceiling / They're praying that I'll soon be out.

Kim Wilde

#8. The lapis lazuli worry beads, draped over his rear view mirror, swung back and forth like the hips of Scheherazade, Mohammed's favorite belly dancer, who refused, in spite of the war, to leave Baghdad.

Leslie Cockburn

#9. He called after her as she
disappeared down the path, a pretty girl in a hurry ...

Truman Capote