Frances Hodgson Burnett Quote

Let my silence grow with noise as pregnant mothers grow with life. Let my silence permeate these walls as sunlight permeates a home. Let the silence rise from unwatered graves and craters left by bomb...

I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...

To be inspired is great, but to inspire is an honor.

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

The eagle only knows how high it can fly when it spreads its wings.

Four minutes of eye contact brings people closer to each other better than everything else.

The man who can fully understand the word covenant is a theologian. That is the key of all theology—the covenant of works by which we fell, and the covenant of grace by which we stand, Christ fulfilli...

When the fuel is dried up in a vehicle, it stops driving automatically. You are a vehicle in the spiritual and the physical world, so you need some oil for alacrity, in order to get to your destinatio...

We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.