Sheri Holman quotes

“It's the greatest of Southern honors . . . to have one's name incorporated into a family tree. It's an honor not lightly given.”
-- Sheri Holman

#Names Quotes #Tree Quotes #Southern Quotes

“Every four years we go through the same cycle of hope and disillusionment.”
-- Sheri Holman

Source : Sheri Holman (2007). “The Mammoth Cheese”, p.455, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

#Years Quotes #Four Quotes #Election Quotes

“Good and Evil are opposite points on a circle, Dr. Chiver. Greater good is just halfway back to Bad.”
-- Sheri Holman

Source : Sheri Holman (2010). “The Dress Lodger”, p.266, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

#Opposites Quotes #Circles Quotes #Evil Quotes

“No woman kills herself for love, and rarely for shame. It is the cruelty of hope that does a woman in; for no matter how many men a woman has given herself to, she never holds her life cheap until she foolishly believed it to be valued.”
-- Sheri Holman

Source : Sheri Holman (2010). “The Dress Lodger”, p.234, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

#Men Quotes #Matter Quotes #Doe Quotes

“Stephanie Kallos's lovely and heartfelt first novel is a gift. A story of broken hearts and broken promises, it is also the story of the ways we put things back together-messily, beautifully, and ultimately triumphantly. Kallos is a writer to watch, and one who, mercifully, still believes in happy endings.”
-- Sheri Holman

#Believe Quotes #Heart Quotes #Broken Quotes

“If she'd spaced her children out and had eleven babies in eleven years, she would have been no better than her own mother and sisters: irresponsible, a welfare cheat, another bit of Sawdust Lane white trash. But as luck would have it, she'd had them all at once, and now she was, overnight, middle-class. And respectable.”
-- Sheri Holman

Source : Sheri Holman (2007). “The Mammoth Cheese”, p.89, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

#Mother Quotes #Baby Quotes #Children Quotes

“Greater good is just halfway back to Bad.”
-- Sheri Holman

#Greater Good Quotes #Halfway Quotes

“Horror hostess, bondage goddess, Charles Addams cartoon comes to life, Vampire was every first-generation fanboy's wet dream. Scott Poole takes us on an unforgettable ride through the overlapping underworlds of B&D magazines, Hollywood noir, and early political liberation movements that inspired actress Maila Nurmi to challenge a postwar culture bent on stifling women's choices, bodies, and desires. This book is a subversive masterpiece.”
-- Sheri Holman

#Dream Quotes #Book Quotes #Political Quotes

“The question is not if the candidate's heart is favorable to Christianity, but if he has Christ as his starting point even for politics, and will speak out His name!”

“Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?' 'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh after careful thought. Piglet was comforted by this.”

“We know there is gravity because apples fall from trees. We can observe gravity in daily life. If we could throw an apple to the edge of the universe, we would observe it accelerating.”

“The oldOld winds that blewWhen chaos was, what doThey tell the clattered trees that IShould weep?”

“The tree of life for me is a symbol of abundance and eternal life.”

“Black Velvet in that little boys smile, Black Velvet with that slow southern style. A new religion that'll bring you to your knees.”

“Southern women can say more with a cut of their eyes than a whole debate club’s worth of speeches.”

“The same men who are placing all these outrageous restrictions on women’s freedoms in southern Somalia – that type of mentality – that’s what I had to deal with in captivity.”

“I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.”

“The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.”

Source : Belle Boyd (1865). “Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison”, p.53