Once we were young, now we are adult.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
All cats are gray in the dark. And besides, her actions have less to do with her, and everything to do with you.
~ Jaye Frances
Youth is to wander! Adult is to act! Age is to assimilate the beauty of thoughts.
~ Debasish Mridha
The adult within me would be much wiser to learn from the child within me rather than focus on the demand that the child within me grow up.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
Sometimes we focus on the lyrics too much and forget to dance to the music.
~ Alexa Anderson
Her soft trailing fingers would continue to attempt a connection that I refused to allow, that I couldn’t allow if I wanted to survive.
~ J.d. Stroube
Cyber bullying occurs online daily. Most don't consider their actions or words to be bullying. Here's a few clues that you're a cyber bully.(1) You post information about someone in order to ruin their character.(2) You post threats to someone.(3) You tag someone in vulgar degrading posts.(4) You post any information intended to harm or shame another individual seeking to gain attention.Then, you are a cyber bully and need to get some help.
~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana
A child who grows up too closely aligned with adults assumes knowledge of a life she hasn’t yet experienced.
~ Suzanne Haynes
A Time Comes When Silence is Betrayal.
~ P.j. Parker
Thunderbird ascended on the heady currents of air that bore her high above the vast landscape of Túwaqachi. She stretched her broad wings, the heat lifting her through the silence, her glossy brown feathers shimmering in the sunlight.
The early morning sunshine shot up the ice-covered valley. It glinted off the backs of slumbering mastodon, reflected between the antlers of caribou.
For whom do you cry, my son?” the Great Spirit asked.“I do not know.”“Yes, you do.
This is a time of change,” the Shaman said. “This is a time of enormous power.
We must treat with respect our world and all upon it. Túwaqachi is not inherited from our ancestors, it has been loaned to us by our children.
Do you understand the meaning of the soil beneath your feet?
The Sun Dagger appeared on the rock face directly above the Shaman’s shadowed head. It dazzled within the shade as the sunlight slipped through a gap in the overhead slabs. The dagger cut slowly down the rock, slicing through the very center of the etched spiral. “The middle of time,” Chaco whispered to himself.
The other Clans will soon arrive. The greatest times of our family are before us. And so are the darkest.
One large cat bounded up the side of the outcrop to stand in full view on an overhanging boulder. She stared down at them, inside their protective enclosure, tilting her head from side to side. Her scarred yellow-brown coat was immaculately groomed, but the long tufting hair of her snout was matted with the bright red smear of uncongealed blood from a recent kill. Her upper lip curved over the top of foot-long saber teeth.
We the People . . . The People of the Long House.
The Day of Trouble is Near
We must love our slaves, Papa. We must love them as hard as we are able.
West Point—The Key to the Continent and Independence.
No words in our ledgers could do justice to this sublime beauty,” Captain Lewis said. “The expedition should have brought a camera obscura.”Peter wasn’t familiar with the words, but no matter. He knew he was part of something magnificent—something greater than himself or the Corps of Discovery. And he knew what it was. It was America. And it was beautiful.
I refuse to believe the people of Texas and all Americans in the world have forgotten us.
Do not fret, my brother, my child. For the buffalo will roam the plains once more.
We live in a complicated society, Bromley—one that is changing and which does indeed need to change. But do you not think any change must begin within our own family gathering?
Rainbow Cloud strode forward like a hunting cat with the same strength of height and broad shoulders, the same rolling gait as First Light’s father. They were indeed the same man, split in two at birth, so the family might be rewarded by twice the skill in hunting each brother possessed.
The Sleepin’ Fox Catches No Poultry.
There were no stars, only the darkness and an arctic chill that had intensified since the first thin, blood-red stripes of sunrise shimmered on the ocean’s horizon.
This is the Rock, sweetheart,” the owner added. “There’s no tragedy you can’t profit from.
~ Henry Mosquera
There’s no tragedy you can’t profit from.
The only thing altruism will get you here is a boot stomping on your head.
Marvelous! Very exciting. I thoroughly enjoyed the story and I can't wait to read more. (About the book Dominique Ick Lessont and the Dragon Knight)
~ Stephen Noce
I didn't plan to be this dysfunctional at 27, but dysfunctionality has a way of creeping up on you. One second, you're 22, wrapping up your undergraduate degree from a top business school, and then suddenly, you're sitting alone in your car at 27, wondering how five years slipped trough your fingers without so much as a blink.
~ R.s. Grey
He leans forward and presses a kiss to my cheek. It's so romantic and soft. I want to capture it in a mason jar and preserve it for later.
Adorably dysfunctional twenty-something seeks handsome veterinarian. Serious offers only.
And sometimes when I feel that much emotion, something inside of me just snaps.
~ Colleen Hoover
And when you love someone, seeing them sad also makes you sad.
Most insensible, corrupt, cheap, disrespectful young girls run after bad, rude, cocky, nonsensical boys, but a mature, educated, thoughtful, virtuos lady opts for a wise, well breed, experienced, humble, modest gentleman.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
Your love life is insignificant when it comes to raising your children to be respectable human beings. The moment you see them suffer or lower their standards because of your selfishness, is the day you should realize that nothing matters more than them. You are not just the queen or king of your fairy tale. The real story of your life is the gift of time God gave you with them.
~ Shannon L. Alder
