quotes about Safe Places

last updated: November 28, 2023

The. World. Is. Not. A. Safe. Place.
-- Jandy Nelson

Source : Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.109, Penguin

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Every child should have a safe place in their life.
-- Joe Manchin

Source : "Starting Point With Soledad O'brien", www.cnn.com. December 18, 2012.

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“I don't believe, for instance, that evolutionary biology or any scientific endeavor has much to say about love. I'm sure a lot can be learned about the importance of hormones and their effects on our feelings. But do the bleak implications of evolution have any impact on the love I feel for my family? Do they make me more likely to break the law of flaunt society's expectations of me? No. I simply does not follow that human relationships are meaningless just because we live in a godless universe subject to the natural laws of biology.”
“Memory embellishes Life. Forgetfulness makes it possible.”
“If in my life I fail completely to heed others, solely out of a desire to be 'devout' and to perform my 'religious duties', then my relationship with God will also grow arid. It becomes merely 'proper', but loveless.”
“Courage is a fickle creature. Just as you need it, it often makes excuses and rushes out of the room.”
“We're working very closely with the RNC, hand in glove. I talked to Reince Priebus several times a day. Sean Spicer is here today. Katie Walsh is here often, the chief of staff there. We have a great - that is the party, and we have a great relationship with the party.”
“It is noble to pity a man who is cruel because he is weak, but it is idiotic and dangerous to allow him to have power.”

Source : Kate Horsley (2002). “Confessions of a Pagan Nun: A Novel”, p.134, Shambhala Publications
“Iâ€™m not going to pick her up and carry her screaming to the basement,â€ Trent said. â€œItâ€™s a workday. Besides, she has a crutch.â€ â€œCrutch or no, sheâ€™s hurt!â€ Ceri protested. â€œI mean,â€ Trent said intently, â€œshe can hit me with it if I do something she doesnâ€™t like.”
“Any athlete or any actor who's preparing for a long time to step on a stage or step on a field or step on a movie set, who suffers an injury right before you're getting ready to perform or to execute - it is a massive challenge that's thrown your way that you didn't expect.”
“The specific course you decide upon is, within certain parameters, less important than the vigor with which you execute it.”
“Despite the Internet 's origin in the late 1960s as a government sponsored means of communication between the Department of Defense, private industry, and academia, it has been at its best and generated the greatest economic, social, and technological benefits since it was 'liberated' by the hordes of 'geeks' who were originally hired to run it by employers who were not themselves conversant with computers, and couldn't tell when their employees were exchanging official traffic or trading dirty jokes and recipes for ***** brownies.”