Yarbrough's Quotes

#1. Steve Yarbrough's Safe from the Neighbors will take your breath away. Ambitious, funny, sad, smart, and beautifully crafted, it's everything a novel should be.

Richard Russo

#2. From a pound of iron, that costs little, a thousand watch-springs can be made, whose value becomes prodigious. The pound you have received from the Lord,
use it faithfully.

Robert Schumann

#3. Steve Yarbrough is a masterful storyteller-one of our finest-and Safe from the Neighbors is a masterpiece ... This is a spellbinding, powerful novel.

Jill McCorkle

#4. I envied the men. I envied the irresponsibility their surroundings and genitals allowed. I envied the artificial affection they bought. But most of all, I envied that flicker of euphoria they got to feel, like a quick sip of whiskey that warmed their chest and eased their pain.

Maggie Young

#5. Very few writers understand the complex history and maddening social order of the Mississippi Delta. For Steve Yarbrough, though, it's home turf. He is wickedly observant, funny, cynical, evocative, and he possesses a gift that cannot be taught: he can tell a story.

John Grisham

#6. Intelligence is not discernment and judgment or critical evaluation.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#7. Just look what happens to poets," I used to tell my honors class on the first day of school. "Half the time they go mad. And you know why I think that happens? Too much truth distilled to its essence, all surrounding evidence ignored or discarded. And I'm not faulting them for that.

Steve Yarbrough

#8. The people of Luna don't need a princess. They need a revolutionary." Cinder furrowed her brow. "A revolutionary," she repeated. She liked that a lot better than princess. The

Marissa Meyer

#9. Strive for originality in thought and action. Be first; Be different; And be daring. Only then will you make a significant difference in this world. You may even attain greatness.

Ernie J Zelinski

#10. Do not try to dress for the other women who will verbally and otherwise judge your appearance. Their opinion doesn't matter.

Gary Yarbrough

#11. The interpretation of facts in a certain way stimulates other scientists' thoughts.

Robert Barany

#12. A successful person is one who by God's grace and mercy is continuously maturing in his thoughts, in his conversation, and in his deeds to practice the revealed will of God and proving it according to His Word.

Tim Yarbrough

#13. We shall have lost something vital and beyond price on the day when the state denies us the right to resort to force ...

Louis D. Brandeis

#14. Death is the beginning of life as life is the beginning of death, and all floods start a movement that cycle from scouring to sediment building. The same sediments that build also bury.

Paul H. Yarbrough

#15. Every place is different, but every place is the same, because you carry yourself with you wherever you go.

Steve Yarbrough

#16. Steve Yarbrough is a writer of many gifts, but what makes Safe from the Neighbors such a magnificent achievement is its moral complexity ... Safe from the Neighbors does what only the best novels can do; after reading it, we can never see the world, or ourselves, in quite the same way.

Ron Rash

#17. The Elder is called Dee, first-born, of the Yarbrough lineage, whose landname is VaWaco.

Mary Doria Russell

#18. I've been out on the book tour going through Pittsburgh, St Louis and Cleveland, Dayton and Orlando, Raleigh-Durham. I sign many books for people.

Jamie Farr

#19. The goal of education by the grace of God is to create self-governing people who live under the Law of God for the glory of Christ.

Tim Yarbrough

#20. It's a lot easier to say when something ended rather than when it began. Most of us can recognize the end from a mile away, but the beginning always slips up on us, lulling us into thinking what we're living through is yet another moment, in yet another day.

Steve Yarbrough

#21. If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time.

Tim Yarbrough

#22. There is a gift of the Holy Spirit that is given to both men and women in the New Testament. This is what makes the New Testament a New Testament rather than the Old Testament, in which women did not have such privileges.

Tony Campolo

#23. The Rest of Our Life Is Going To Be The Best of Our Life!

Darrell Yarbrough