"The minister's brain is often the "poor-box" of the church."

-- Edwin Percy Whipple

#Brain Quotes #Church Quotes #Poor Quotes

“People have defining moments, i suppose, especially when they're children.”
“There's never been anyone like Bettie Before. Monroe had Harlow and Detrich, she had all of those blonde bombshells, but there was nothing like Bettie. She was the first icon of her nature.”
“Whenever and however you give birth, your experience will impact your emotions, your mind, your body, and your spirit for the rest of your life.”
“There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly terrible to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a free press.”
“Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.”
“It's quite nice to have a bit more color on the lips during wintertime. And it's festive, isn't it?”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If it feels like your life has become a nasty, brackish puddle of water, never forget that you do possess the power to transform it into a beautiful, rushing stream that will carry you to enlightenment.”
“For books [Charles Darwin] had no respect, but merely considered them as tools to be worked with. ... he would cut a heavy book in half, to make it more convenient to hold. He used to boast that he had made Lyell publish the second edition of one of his books in two volumes, instead of in one, by telling him how ho had been obliged to cut it in half. ... his library was not ornamental, but was striking from being so evidently a working collection of books.”

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