Nancy > Nancy's Quotes

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
― Roald Dahl

“I had so much. I felt so sad.”
― Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

“It had been awful, but I hadn't quit. I had persisted. In battle I had won.”
― Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, The War That Saved My Life

“To resist a challenge is to resist life itself -Mogwat Of all challenges the greatest is to be yourself. Truth is often painful to speak but soothing to live.”
― Avi

“Scripture warns us against pursuing sexual practice inconsistent with being in Christ. When we tolerate the doctrine which affirms homosexual behavior, we are tolerating a doctrine which leads people further from God.”
― Kevin DeYoung, What Does the Bible Really Teach about Homosexuality?

“I've seen people spend a lot of time wishing things are not the way they are. This kind of activity is a waste of mental and emotional energy that needs to be directed toward how God intended you to live today.”
― Jonas Beiler

“Badly drawn, badly written and badly printed - a strain on young eyes and young nervous systems - the effect of these pulp-paper nightmares is that of a violent stimulant. Their crude blacks and reds spoil the child's natural sense of color; their hypodermic injection of sex and murder makes the child impatient with better, though quieter, stories. Unless we want a coming generation even more ferocious than the present one, parents and teachers throughout America must band together to break the 'comic' magazines.

But the antidote to the 'comic' magazine poison can be found in any library or good bookstore. The parent who does not acquire that antidote for his child is guilty of criminal negligence.”
― Sterling North

“We all have wounds & we can either open them up to the light of day so they can heal or we can keep them buried where they will fester & one day wreak havoc on us. (page 244)”
― Edie Wadsworth, All the Pretty Things: The Story of a Southern Girl Who Went through Fire to Find Her Way Home

“Age wrinkles the body, quitting wrinkles the soul.”
― Douglas MacArthur

“Home run hitters strike out a lot.”
― Reggie Jackson

“All the kids loved lunchtime. But the awful part of lunch was the eating part - school food.”
― Andrew Clements, Frindle

“The way I see it, hard times aren't only about money, or drought, or dust. Hard times are about losing spirit, and hope, and what happens when dreams dry up.
And I'm learning, watching Daddy, that you can stay in one place and still grow.”
― Karen Hesse, Out of the Dust

“We cannot reinvent our fundamental institutions without going against the created order.
Some Christians are bending God's rules to satisfy self.
As the fads and trends around us come and go, one person endures: Jesus Christ. He is the same yesterday, today and forever. (Heb. 13:8) He is exalted in the heavens, and the earth is His footstool. from: I Never Thought I'd See the Day”
― Dr. David Jeremiah

“Obedience without choice is servitude. Love without choice is not love.”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, The Novelist

“Looking close can make something beautiful.
Not everything worth keeping has to be useful.
If you don't have the words you need, borrow someone else's.”
― Cynthia Lord, Rules

“Their pain was bigger than their love. You had to forgive them for that.”
― Ruth White, Belle Prater's Boy

“A conscience at ease is a pillow on which we may sleep soundly even in a dungeon.”
― Christoph von Schmid, The Basket of Flowers: A Tale for the Young

“We live our lives in eternity's lobby, walking toward a door that will forever seal our destiny.”
― Randy Alcorn, Edge of Eternity

“I'm an introvert, and I will imperfectly and courageously offer my strengths of strategic solitude, meaningful connection, genuine influence, sacred confidence, true well-being, hard won resilience, sharp thinking, insightful perception, and intentional energy as I live with purpose and grow for a lifetime.”
― Holley Gerth, Powerful Purpose of Introverts

“Since childhood, a sense of knowing right from wrong had been a steady compass for Raoul Wallenberg. This, more than the gun in his pocket, would be his courage.”
― Louise Borden, His Name Was Raoul Wallenberg: Courage, Rescue, and Mystery During World War II

“Politics isn't about power, control or manipulation. It's about serving up your very best. You don't understand the power you have until you use it. Helping other people brings out the good in everybody. When hope gets released in a place, all kinds of things are possible.”
― Joan Bauer, Hope Was Here

“Perhaps the most dangerous thing on Earth is the person who always follows. What if you follow the wrong person? The wrong Idea?”
― caroline b cooney

“Giving up and letting go are two very different things. Giving up is admitting you're beat and walking away. Letting go means you're setting something free. You're releasing something that's been keeping you stuck. That takes faith and more than a little courage.”
― Cynthia Lord, A Handful of Stars

“Men fear most what they understand least, ignorance makes fear.
The best time for elders to advise youth is when youth presume to advise their elders.
The man who must prove himself a man is still a boy.
A large private misery makes public compassion small.”
― Avi, Crispin: At the Edge of the World

“Lose your sorrows, and you'll find your freedom.
If you have to choose between alertness and worry, being alert will bring you more days of life.
Try to show less worry. The worse disguise is fear.”
― Avi, The Cross of Lead

“Even the most awful experiences have the potential to end with something beautiful.”
― Erin Soderberg Downing, Controlled Burn