"I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me."

-- Nanci Griffith

#Song Quotes #Views Quotes #Stories Quotes

“Adoption has the dimension of connection - not only to your own tribe, but beyond, widening the scope of what constitutes love, ties and family. It is a larger embrace. By adopting, we stretch past our immediate circles and, by reaching out, find an unexpected sense of belonging with others.”
“I'm as religious as the next man - which is to say I'll keep in with the local parson for form's sake and read the lessons on feast-days because my tenants expect it, but I've never been fool enough to confuse religion with belief in God. That's where so many clergymen... go wrong”

Source : George MacDonald Fraser (2013). “Flashman in the Great Game: A Novel”, p.90, Penguin
“Player haters be givin' me harsh looks, But I'm tryin to sell records like Garth Brooks.”

Source : Song: Nigga Please, 2003
“If you draft me, you'll never regret it.”

Source : "Kwame Brown opens up about his NBA career, facing criticism, Michael Jordan and more". Interview with Alex Kennedy, hoopshype.com. June 2, 2017.
“Even tiny children looking at a picture book are using their imaginations, gleaning clues from the images to understand what is happening, and perhaps using the throwaway details which the illustrator includes to add their own elements to the story.”
“The praise of a civilized world is justly due to Christianity;â€”war, by the influence of the humane principles of that religion, has been stripped of half its horrors. The French renounce Christianity, and they relapse into barbarism;â€”war resumes the same hideous and savage form which it wore in the ages of Gothic and Roman violence.”
“In the end, coming to faith remains for all a sense of homecoming, of picking up the threads of a lost life, of responding to a bell that had long been ringing, of taking a place at a table that had long been vacant.”
“I am a Californian, and we have twice the individuality and originality of any people in the United States. We always get quite huffy when we are spoken of as merely Americans.”

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