"All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times."

-- John Woolman

#Winter Quotes #Parent Quotes #Evening Quotes

“Perhaps we should all settle down and think about what's good in the world and what we want to do here. If we find this planet and its history and its story to be sacred, let's preserve and nourish it, and then we can go home at night and say whatever prayers we choose.”

Source : "There Are Two Flavors of God People". Interview with Jill Neimark, www.beliefnet.com. June 2004.
“If food were free, why work?”
“For my stand-up, I always have my notebook with me and if something strikes me, I'll write it down.”
“Reagan was a flesh and blood version of any other mute national emblem, say the Statue of Liberty. Everyone knows what she represents, but no one would dream of asking her opinion.”
“Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.”
“To be honest with my music... for me to expect anyone to connect it has to come from a place of honesty.”
“Even across the dark, even across the loss, even across the emptiness, soul will speak to soul”

Source : Catherine Fisher (2011). “The Dark City”, p.72, Penguin
“We [England] have become all Billy Big Time and become too big for our boots, and yet we have got nothing to shout about”

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