Tarpaper Quotes

#1. Consider the lilies of the field. Look at the fuzz on a baby's ear. Read in the backyard with the sun on your face. Learn to be happy. And think of life as a terminal illness because if you do you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived. - Author: Anna Quindlen

#2. There are no bad people, only badly loved people. - Author: Arnaud Desjardins

#3. Sometimes love blinds us, other times it let's us see. - Author: Paulo Coelho

#4. Size is definitely relative. If you're bigger, they can see you easier. - Author: Chan Gailey

#5. The crisis prompted the issue of emergency paper money: in Britain, £1 and 10s Treasury notes; in the United States, the emergency currency that banks were authorized to issue under the Aldrich-Vreeland Act of 1908.46 Then, as now, the authorities reacted to a liquidity crisis by printing money. - Author: Niall Ferguson

#6. I'd like to say I found a sublime beauty in it all, but I didn't. And yet. And yet, this life we'd built filled our car - Author: Dennis Lehane

#7. In the taxi I let my hand lie on her leg like a promise, but I had no intention of keeping my promise. - Author: Graham Greene

#8. Prayer is always in danger of degenerating into a glorified gold rush. How to get things from God occupies most [books]. - Author: Aiden Wilson Tozer

#9. During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that's all I had. I wrote because that's all I had. - Author: Laird Barron

#10. No text can be understood out of its entire context. The most "entire" context is Jesus. Every biblical text must be read in the living presence of Jesus. Every word of the scriptural text is a window or door leading us out of the tarpaper shacks of self into this great outdoors of God's revelation. - Author: Eugene H. Peterson

#11. Traveling and other cultures provide me with great inspiration, especially unusual people and cultures totally unlike my own. They generate many new ideas for me. - Author: Kansai Yamamoto