"Everything in the country, animate and inanimate, seems to whisper, be serene, be kind, be happy. We grow tolerant there unconsciously."

-- Fanny Fern

#Country Quotes #Be Kind Quotes #Serene Quotes

“Just because you're down to your last strike, you're not out yet. You can always do more. You'll always have more at-bats to take. That's true in baseball, in rescuing animals, and in life generally.”
“It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.”
“As with many Southern Writers, I believe that the special quality of the land itself indelibly shapes the people who dwell upon it.”

Source : Willie Morris (2011). “The Courting of Marcus Dupree”, p.20, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“Let people who do not know what to do with themselves in this life, but fritter away their time reading magazines and watching television, hope for eternal life.....The life I want is a life I could not endure in eternity. It is a life of love and intensity, suffering and creation, that makes life worth while and death welcome. There is no other life I should prefer. Neither should I like not to die.”

Source : "The Faith of a Heretic" by Walter Kaufmann, Princeton University Press, Ch. 12 (pp. 374-375), 1961.
“I'm excited about the old songs. That's a nice place to be after grinding out the music business for twenty years.”

Source : "John Ondrasik Interview from Five For Fighting". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Sometimes when you're heavy into the shooting or editing of a picture, you get to the point where you don't know if you could ever do it again.”
“The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.”
“I've come to the conclusion that military style weapons really don't have any place in our society. We ought to reinstate the assault weapons ban that served us well for 10 years from 1994 to 2004.”

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