Valaida Benson Quotes

#1. The lessons she'd been forced to learn were dry spare things, the facts without the sense of them, given in the simplest of language, as if words might disguise the truth or (worse) bring it to life.

Robin McKinley

#2. Surviving is good, but overcoming is better.

Shelley Hendrix

#3. Paint is a very sensual material. It's lovely to work with and lovely to look at.

Glenn Ligon

#4. We need to have as broad a range as possible, because life itself has that kind of range.

John Eaton

#5. Once a man ceases to be of service to his neighbor, he begins to be a burden to him.

Fulton J. Sheen

#6. When the Earth was flat we had a fear of falling off the edge. Now the Earth is round we've lost that fear, and all hope of staying on.

Chris James

#7. I couldn't have loved her more if she was my own child. But sometimes I considered shaving her eyebrows off while she slept.
For the sake of developing her character.

Molly Harper

#8. Despite everything they say, they are not popular. And the longer they stay in government, the better people will get to know their wickedness.

Ken Follett

#9. Nowadays, if you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well.

Bill Parcells