American Author Quotes

In the moon's eclipse,
The earth's round shadow on its face I see!
I read God's works, which are his book indeed,
And trust the hint that falleth from his lips
More than all man's infallibility.

Minot Judson Savage

If you want the fire of God, you must become the fuel of God.

Actors between plays are like ghosts looking for bodies to inhabit.

Even when it was easy, music's patterning shaped the emotions... Music proclaimed an orderly universe, promised a better place.

Ellen Hunnicutt

The central problem of brand-building is getting a complex organization to execute a simple idea.

When you get out of the driver's seat, you find that life can drive itself, that actually life has always been driving itself. When you get out of the driver's seat, it can drive itself so much easier-it can flow in ways you never imagined. Life becomes almost magical. The illusion of the me is no longer in the way. Life begins to flow, and you never know where it will take you.

If you ever managed to make me cry, my tears would sear your face.

Jonathan Littell

It was on the cross of Calvary that God, in Christ, dealt fully and finally with self, the nature from which all our sins flow.

Miles J. Stanford

This kind of thinking, he found, is not the way to make one's self popular with other birds. Even his parents were dismayed as Jonathan spent whole days alone, making hundreds of low-level glides, experimenting.

Picking the right name for the baby is beset with difficulties.... whatever name you choose, the baby, some years hence, will hate it anyway, and decide to have his friends call him Slats or Rocky...

Robert Paul Smith

All adults who care about a baby will naturally be in competition for that baby.... Each adult wishes that he or she could do each job a bit more skillfully for the infant or small child than the other.

T. Berry Brazelton

As Rose stood by him watching the ease with which he quickly brought order out of chaos, she privately resolved to hunt up her old arithmetic and perfect herself in the four first rules, with a good tug at fractions, before she read any more fairy tales.

Louisa May Alcott

When you don't know what to do, do what's right and do what's in front of you. But not necessarily what's right in front of you.

Nothing is true unless it works. And it has to work for you, not for someone else.

Raymond Charles Barker

You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you.

Chérie Carter-Scott

Many companies are not tech companies, they are brands.

Where you succeed will never matter so much as where you fail.

Karen Joy Fowler

Men, being conditioned badly, are always feeling nooses closing around their necks, even dumpy boors no girl would take on a bet.

Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.

The boys think they can all be athletes, and the girls think they can all be singers. That's the way to fame and success....as a group blacks must give up their illusions.

A man who is a man goes on until he can go no further—and then goes twice as far.

Figuring out our gifts in life is part of our journey to becoming enlightened human beings.

You didn't realize what was passing you by until you slowed down a little bit to get a better look.

Karin Slaughter

Rage keeps the person who feels it company. It moves into the hollows left by grief and loss, and turns inside you like a dark furred animal that grows and fills you; it kills off loneliness and takes its place.

Mothers sometimes are overly possessive, but not all children allow themselves to be possessed.