Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes
I went to the little church in the country after ten years in the city. And part of my dream was to sit on people's front porches with glasses of iced tea, and all that happened. I was able to send birthday cards to everyone in the parish and able to know everyone who was there on Sunday by name. And that was what I'd been looking for.
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Comedy's really subjective, you know; that's why it's so hard.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates far enough to influence the thing I write next.
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As much as we need to approve the Keystone pipeline, we need to think far broader than that.
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My mom taught me the power of love. I learned to focus on the long-term big picture from my father. His sense of humor and light-hearted approach always make me smile. My husband is a pivotal anchor in my life. His influence encourages me to be independent and take risks.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.
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In early Islam, it was an absolute tenet that the prophet was not to be worshipped. The prophet was a messenger. And one of the things that's happened in Islam is this cult of the prophet, which to my view is counter to the original tradition.
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Modern architecture needed to be part of an evolutionary, not a revolutionary, process.
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Nobody's gonna care about your stuff the way you do.
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I have two cats at home in Minnesota with my family. Beau and Skippy.
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You just couldn't be in George Romney's presence without some of his goodness and integrity wearing off on you.
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I used to experiment all the time with my hair color.
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Shopping turns me off.
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It's a songwriter's dream to have a song recorded and run up the charts.
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The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
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A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.
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As the moral gloom of the world overpowers all systematic gaiety, even so was their home of wild mirth made desolate amid the sad forest.
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Once an idea is out and about, it can't be called back, silenced or erased. You can't contain it, any more than you could put the head of a dandelion back together after the wind has scattered its seeds.
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Christians well know that the much-decorated statue of the Church, as it now stands, is not of pure chiseled marble, but of clay, cemented together by blood and tears and hardened in the fires of hatred and persecution.
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A blemish may be removed from a diamond by careful polishing, but evil words once spoken cannot be effaced.
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I went to the little church in the country after ten years in the city. And part of my dream was to sit on people's front porches with glasses of iced tea, and all that happened. I was able to send birthday cards to everyone in the parish and able to know everyone who was there on Sunday by name. And that was what I'd been looking for.
