Quotes of: Founding-fathers Keyword

I admit to a feeling of pride that my father had saved the day yet again, although I also thought that nothing would have been better for me personally than for the mullah to force my father's departure within the hour. Either way, I know now that no...

Growing Up bin Laden: Osama's Wife and Son Take Us Inside Their Secret World

I lost myself immediately in one of the books, only emerging when the phone rang. “Dashiell?” my father intoned. As if someone else with my voice might be answering the phone at my mother’s apartment. “Yes, Father?” “Leeza and I would lik...

Rachel Cohn

A priest is a man who is called Father by everyone except his own children who are obliged to call him Uncle.

Italian

Poor people have poor options. Chavez found the Army almost by accident, and had found it a true open of security and opportunity and fellowship and respect.

Clear and Present Danger

A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure. It will be a good thing for the Rougon family to be founded on a massacre, like many illustrious families." --Monsieur de Carnavant

The Fortune of the Rougons

They said the doctors could tell from the scars." "Stop." "Scars can tell you how old the wound is." "Stop." "When I stopped going to school, they came and found me. They found me in the closet." "Sarah.

Beautiful

For me, art really starts with acceptance, self trust. Wherever you come to with art, it's perfect. You don't have to come with anything. What you bring to something is the art. That's where it's found. It's found within you.

Jeff Koons

There is no lifeguard on duty. We each swim at our own risk during this short journey." ~ Lisa Fantino/Amalfi Blue

Amalfi Blue, lost & found in the south of Italy

Trust and surrender to the process of your divinely feminine unfolding.

A Juicy, Joyful Life: Inspiration from Women Who Have Found the Sweetness in Every Day

Thought assists memory in enabling it to order the material it has assembled. So that in a systematically ordered memory every idea is individually followed by all conclusions it entails.

The Manuscript Found in Saragossa

My impression of love: I found her—lucky me. I found her—unlucky her. She’d probably agree with me, which would be a first.

Love quotes for the ages. And the ageless sages.

A rose dreams of enjoying the company of bees, but none appears. The sun asks: “Aren’t you tired of waiting?” “Yes,” answers the rose, “but if I close my petals, I will wither and die.

Manuscript Found in Accra

If I found money, I’d turn it in—for the reward. Unless the reward money was less than the value of the money I found, and obviously it would be, in which case I’d keep the money.

Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

One! two! and through and through The vorpal blade went snickersnack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back.

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There

... there is a whole hell of a lot of knowledge about the (expletive removed) human condition that we are not ready for.

Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin

I think perhaps love thrives on unlikely circumstances and chance : life thrives on these principles, and is life not love? And love not life?

White Fluffy Clouds: Found Inspiration Moving Forward

Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves...

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

What if I forgave myself even though I'd done something I shouldn't have?

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

I had problems a therapist couldn't solve; grief that no man in a room could ameliorate.

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

It was April in Minneapolis and snowing, the flakes coming down in thick swirls enchanting the city

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

It was really over, I thought. There was no way to go back, to make it stay. There was never that.

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail