The Sky Beneath My Feet Quotes

“There's enough ugliness in the world without having to feel guilty about the beauty.”
― Lisa Samson, The Sky Beneath My Feet

“I've never heard anyone come back from downtown Baltimore waxing poetic about the authenticity of poverty.”
― Lisa Samson, The Sky Beneath My Feet

“Confession: I don't want everybody to be beautiful, not in that unlined, creaseless, symmetrical way. Android beauty, like it comes out of a test tube. Beauty without blemish or mark. Not only do I not identify with such people, I don't believe in them either. I don't even find them attractive. This is what makes watching television so hard: they don't cast actors anymore, only models. When they make a movie of my life, they'd better cast a character actor in the lead. Don't try to tell me I'm not a character.”
― Lisa Samson, The Sky Beneath My Feet

“The point is, the way to speak to the universal is through the particular. The broad message might appear to speak to everyone, but really it speaks to no one deeply. When you focus on the particular, even though it seems counterintuitive, by communicating just one thing to just one person, you say everything to everyone.”
― Lisa Samson, The Sky Beneath My Feet

“God wasn't giving me a megaphone. He was telling me to shut up. To be still and know.”
― Lisa Samson, The Sky Beneath My Feet

“Now I find that what life was making of me, what God was making of me, was not an arrow to trace a path through the sky, but the hub of a wheel. I am the intersection, I am the connection between them all, and the purpose I've been given isn't mine alone. It's for all of us to share. What I needed wasn't something I could take. What I needed was something I could give.”
― Lisa Samson, The Sky Beneath My Feet

“If I was an eccentric old spinster in a Merchant Ivory movie, I'd want to share my lovely cottage with Holly and that's the truth. I'd do the cooking and leave the decorating to her, and we'd be inseparable.”
― Lisa Samson, The Sky Beneath My Feet

“From two niches (to use Barber's word), North and South, we've splintered into hundreds of thousands, a nation of tribes connected not by kinship or even creed. We're merely tethered together by the Internet, by our brand loyalties and shared consumer obsessions.”
― Lisa Samson, The Sky Beneath My Feet

“You should never use propaganda to teach kids the truth.”
― Lisa Samson, The Sky Beneath My Feet

“It’s not so easy to dismiss people you disagree with when you sense God working in their lives too. Later,”
― Lisa Samson, The Sky Beneath My Feet