Thorngate Homes Quotes

#1. The lover seeks in marriage his private felicity and perfection, with no prospective end; and nature hides in his happiness her own ends, namely, progeny, or the perpetuity of the race.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. I did grow up poor. My mom managed to get a job as a custodian at our church, and it was really just a favor for her, and my dad's an electrician - just a blue-collar family, and the house was usually falling apart.

Crystal Bowersox

#3. Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.

Jeanette Winterson

#4. The cross stands at the heart of John's kingdom theology, which in this stunning passage is revealed as the heart of John's redemption theology, the vision of the love of God revealed in saving action in the death of his Son, the Lamb, the Messiah.

N. T. Wright

#5. The Buddha who stares back at us from the texts will be too much a reflection of ourselves, too little an image of the Enlightened One.

Dalai Lama XIV

#6. I have always found it difficult to study. I have learnt almost entirely what I have learnt by trying it out on the dog.

Ralph Vaughan Williams

#7. There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt. And, of course, there are Christian monks and nuns who already use Buddhist methods in order to develop their devotion, compassion, and ability to forgive.

Dalai Lama

#8. Writing comes from the fear of failure not from the joy of winning.

Debasish Mridha

#9. The average asteroid actually will be about one and a half million kilometres from its nearest neighbour.

Bill Bryson

#10. I used to feel kind of impatient with people who couldn't do things fast or couldn't remember stuff.

Linda Ronstadt