The Messenger Lois Lowry Quotes

#1. Weep for what little things could make them glad.

Robert Frost

#2. I don't collect things per se, but I do pick up things as I go. Like, in my studio I have an old sewing machine from Germany that my dad gave me, and then something else that I got from a friend in India, and a piece of flooring from one of my shows.

Jason Wu

#3. Nothing in the world is so rare as a person one can always put up with.

Giacomo Leopardi

#4. It's not an easy thing to tell a true story.

Allen Morris Jones

#5. Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes current among us.

Michel De Montaigne

#6. The mature person meets the demands of life, while the immature person demands that life meet her demands.

Henry Cloud

#7. How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point does conformity become corruption? Only by answering such questions does the conscience truly define itself.

Kenneth Tynan

#8. I really love listening to Hozier. He's great.

Shawn Mendes

#9. Even if a man has everything - money, power, the key to eternal life - he still is nothing if he is without a family to love him and for him to love.

Latrivia S. Nelson

#10. Science is concerned with what is possible while engineering is concerned with choosing, from among the many possible ways, one that meets a number of often poorly stated economic and practical objectives.

Richard Hamming

#11. That's one more thing people don't know about Indians: We love to talk dirty.

Sherman Alexie

#12. Trials and tribulations offer us a chance to make reparation for our past faults and sins. On such occasions the Lord comes to us like a physician to heal the wounds left by our sins. Tribulation is the divine medicine.

Saint Augustine

#13. you could have cut the lack of surprise and spread it on bread.

Stephen King

#14. An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

John Ruskin

#15. Darker grows the valley, more and more forgetting: So were it with me if forgetting could be willed. Tell the grassy hollow that holds the bubbling well-spring, Tell it to forget the source that keeps it filled.

George Meredith