Uppermost Mantle Quotes

#1. Like many men and women who make egregious and irretrievable mistakes with their own children, she would redeem herself by becoming the perfect grandmother.

Pat Conroy

#2. If you want your dream to come true, you must do a lot of work.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. Dorinpa, Dorunpa. Now you can't lie.

Usui Takumi

#4. When I was 13, I asked for a guitar. And that's how I really started explaining my point of view.

Katy Perry

#5. Both trust and gratitude require the courage to take risks because distrust and resentment, in their need to keep their claim on me, keep warning me how dangerous it is to let go of my careful calculations and guarded predictions.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#6. Why, there's no remedy; 'tis the curse of service, Preferment goes by letter and affection, And not by old gradation, where each second Stood heir to the first. Now, sir, be judge yourself Whether I in any just term am affin'd To love the Moor.

William Shakespeare

#7. When I saw the photograph I realized for the first time why the obituaries had so disturbed me.
I had allowed other people to think he was dead.
I had allowed him to be buried alive.

Joan Didion

#8. How dangerous it is to assume that a person is more than a person.

John Green

#9. All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.

Marshall McLuhan

#10. To lose someone after you've loved them was tougher than losing them when you've never even met them.

Diyar Harraz