Terrance Hayes Quotes

#1. All you single fathers got to man up.

Tracy Morgan

#2. Ask a glass of water why it pities
the rain. Ask the lunatic yard dog why it tolerates the leash.

Terrance Hayes

#3. This is what it means to believe in ascension and fear climbing.

Terrance Hayes

#4. I believe everything is a metaphor for sex.

Terrance Hayes

#5. Jesus was born under the law of God and took on himself the condemnation we deserved for our sin. Now the full legal rights of adoption are given to us who are in Christ by faith.

C. John Miller

#6. It might be the white woman or man our son or daughter will marry and the white woman or man our grandson or granddaughter will marry, all of them wading into the future until one of our line claims to be Sicilian. Leave instructions: the granddaughter of our granddaughter shall be named Cicily.

Terrance Hayes

#7. I saw someone label me as a dubstep producer but I'm definitely not a dubstep producer. There's nothing wrong with that, though, because that's major. But it's like a school bus driver being labeled as a NASCAR driver. I would love to be a NASCAR driver, but I drive buses for a living.

AraabMuzik

#8. Can you remember the womb? How, in the moments before birth, The lines were washed from the map That told the route you'd come?

Terrance Hayes

#9. My mother was a dark red head wrap. Her life had been heavier than the fire she carried on her back. This is the meaning of the past, Boy. There were maps & scriptures carved into my palms, whole towns

Terrance Hayes

#10. Trouble is one of the ways we discover the complexities Of the soul.

Terrance Hayes

#11. I wish I could weep the way my teacher did as he read us Molly Bloom's soliloquy of yes.

Terrance Hayes

#12. I'll eat you to live: that's poetry.

Terrance Hayes

#13. If you and every person in the county mailed
me an envelope of five to ten dollars, I think
I could rehabilitate the sheep.

Terrance Hayes

#14. Look, the world is everywhere: satellites, end tables, the pink and white poinsettias outside the church; reunions and degrees. All those radiant asterisks ... Soon it will all make sense.

Terrance Hayes

#15. I've enjoyed watching 'Lost.' I'm a big fan of 'Mad Men.'

Timothy Hutton

#16. I've been really, really fortunate.

Joe Biden

#17. She had dealt with her pregnancy by wrapping herself in dreams.

Robert K. Massie

#18. I'm sorry. I behaved like a jerk.
You did.
Is that forgiveness?
I'm not sure. I think it's an acknowledgment of imperfection. And an admission that I believe time is too short to hold a grudge.

Janet Mullany

#19. I love cheese and biscuits, the stronger the better.

Eric Bristow

#20. One has to abandon altogether the search for security, and reach out to the risk of living with both arms. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing.

Morris L. West

#21. Whatever it is that you're passionate about, whatever it is that you absolutely love, and whatever it is that you would get up out of bed every day and do for free, you should try to figure out a way to make money at it and give it a shot.

Dana White

#22. ' Torn' is hopeful. It's a book that meets you in your pain and shows you how to move forward with life and in your walk with God.

Jud Wilhite