The Devil's Highway Book Quotes

#1. When you think about it, words can break your heart, or they can change your day.

Anna Deavere Smith

#2. Language, when it finally comes, has the vigor of a felon pardoned after twenty-one years on hold. Sudden, raw, stripped to its underwear.

Toni Morrison

#3. One of the most common outcomes of a depressive illness is a mistreated body. Now is the time to treat your body well. The more you learn to treat yourself well now, the less treatment you'll need down the road.

Harold H. Bloomfield

#4. Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers?

Sammy Davis Jr.

#5. Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.

Mitch Albom

#6. He had reached that moment in life, different for each one of us, when a man abandonds himself to his demon or to his genius, following a mysterious law which bids him either to destroy or outdo himself.

Marguerite Yourcenar

#7. butter in a golden lump, drowning in the buttermilk. Then Ma took out the lump with a wooden paddle, into a wooden bowl, and she washed it many times in cold water, turning it over and over and working it with the paddle until the water ran clear. After that she salted it. Now

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#8. She'd led her father to believe she was undecided in her profession when in actuality she quickly became one of Beckett's most trusted enforcers.

Debra Anastasia

#9. If the military contractors are out of Afghanistan, Karzai is out 15 minutes later.

Rachel Maddow

#10. To be frank, politics is about wanting power, getting it, exercising it, and keeping it.

Jean Chretien

#11. As the oceans go, so do we.

David Doubilet

#12. Thoughtful criticism and close scrutiny of all government officials by the press and the public are an important part of our democratic society.

Jimmy Carter