Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.

I think that if my kids are completely convinced of God's unfailing love for them, whether they fail or not, they'll have confidence to persevere in life.

Amy Grant

Working at the Food Bank with my kids is an eye-opener. The face of hunger isn't the bum on the street drinking Sterno it's the working poor. They don't look any different, they don't behave any differently, they're not really any less educated. They are incredibly less privileged, and that's it.

Mario Batali

I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.

Gabrielle Union

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Alexander Pope, "An Essay on Cri

Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer. It is joy and art.

Bliss Carman

As it happened, all three of us turned out to be real writers--a coincidence almost too large to be termed mere coincidence in a society where literally tens of thousands (maybe hundreds of thousands) of college students aspire to the writer's trade and where bare hundreds actually break through.

Stephen King

He was raw and sharp and rich and throbbing with life. He was sweet blood after a long hunt. How could she have mistaken Aiden's kisses for this? They had been delicious and smooth like the brief comfort of chocolate, but they had never been enough.

Annette Curtis Klause

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Ulysses S. Grant

But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.

Ernest Holmes

The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work.

Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

Francis Bacon

Confess you were wrong yesterday; it will show you are wise today.

Proverb