Sarah Quotes

A mother is a mother from the moment her baby is first placed in her arms until eternity. It didn't matter if her child were three, thirteen, or thirty.

THE BIGGEST TEST FOR PARENTS IS NOT HOW THEY PARENT, BUT HOW THEY RESPOND TO DISORDER AND UNPREDICTABILITY

Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in common: They had something to say, and did.

One thing that I love about traveling is feeling disoriented and removed from my comfort zone

Happiness is the sense that one matters.

The reason why women effect so little and are so shallow is because their aims are low, marriage is the prize for which they strive; if foiled in that they rarely rise above disappointment.

I like pineapple. It's delightful.

Forgive yourself for the decisions you have made, the ones you still call mistakes when you tuck them in at night.

I like food. I like eating. And I don't want to deprive myself of good food.

Libraries were full of ideas-perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.

Be kind to bad and good, for you don't know your own heart.

Follow your instincts and do not let other people's opinion of you become your opinion of yourself.

We all bear scars,... Mine just happen to be more visible than most.

If women could go into your Congress, I think justice would soon be done to the Indians.

There has been a comparatively greater proportion of good queens, than of good kings.

If any vegans came over for dinner, I could whip them up a salad, then explain my philosophy on being a carnivore: If God had not intended for us to eat animals, how come He made them out of meat?

Waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists.

I have not contended for Democrat, Republican, Protestant or Baptist for an agent. I have worked for freedom, I have laboured to give my race a voice in the affairs of the nation.

Art is not about something, Art is something

You can only fit so many words in a postcard, only so many in a phone call, only so many into space before you forget that words are sometimes used for things other than filling emptiness.

The only way to change the world is to change yourself.

In any market, in any country, there are developers who make money. So I say all of this doom and gloom, but there will always be people who make money, because people always want homes.

The saddest day has gleams of light, The darkest wave hath bright foam beneath it. There twinkles o'er the cloudiest night, Some solitary star to cheer it.

I am not a special person. I am a regular person who does special things.

It requires but a few threads of hope, for the heart that is skilled in the secret, to weave a web of happiness.

Theatre is, at its roots, some very brave people mutually consenting to a make believe world, with nothing but language to rest on.

I think there is a human instinct to tell stories, no matter who you are or where you live.

Life is a vapor. It passes in the blink of an eye.

Look bravely up into the sky, And be content with knowing That God wished for a buttercup Just here, where you are growing.

Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot.

Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.

At sixty I look back on a life of deep disappointments, of withered hopes, of unlooked for suffering, of severe discipline.

Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.

You are not made of metaphors, Not apologies, not excuses.

We ought to hate very rarely, as it is too fatiguing; remain indifferent to a great deal, forgive often and never forget.

Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.

Expect to have hope rekindled. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.

If two people are meant to be together, nothing can keep them apart.

We need to stop telling girls they can be anything they want when they grow up. Because it would have never occurred to them that they couldn't.

When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed.

Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.

It was really cool going to Sea World. We had an amazing time. They were amazing to us. We got to swim with the dolphins, and it was really special.

I do love poop. I can't help it. The heart wants what it wants. I enjoy being clever and pithy and political, but nothing's going to get me like dumb stuff.

Let's just start and see what happens.

Art is a way of freezing time, or extending time. ... It's another way to bridge the gaps between us.

I grew up with a younger brother, so I can get pretty rowdy.

It's like the riddle of the Sphinx... why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men?

Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.

My dream is to do whatever I want without any interference from the record company.

I use poetry to help me work through what I don’t understand, but I show up to each new poem with a backpack full of everywhere else that I’ve been.