Jay Parini Quotes

Christmas is, for those who wish to follow the way of Jesus, an invitation to accept into our comfortable and safe lives those who come to us from far away, who seem ragged, marginal, in transition.

Jay Parini

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 2, 1948

Topics

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I didn't play JV because I went straight to varsity and started as a 10th grader - that was back in the day when you could not play varsity as a ninth grader. I went right from playing junior high football to varsity.

Jim Kelly

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I'm not despairing of love at all.

Andrew Sean Greer

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Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.

Ani DiFranco

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Most of us know that the hormone melatonin helps regulate our sleep. But it also seems to play another role - suppressing cancer growth.

Michael Greger

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I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.

Studs Terkel

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I want to literally quit drag and go live in the woods somewhere and write music for my favorite female singers, like Miley Cyrus or Kacey Musgraves. I would love to be able to write music for them and hear these women I admire sing my songs. That would be like doing drag without having to get into drag myself.

Trixie Mattel

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I have never felt in tune with the whole rock industry.

Robert Wyatt

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When I reached adulthood, even now, I could afford to belong to a country club. But I could never belong to a private club because of my experience as a child, because it would isolate me from the whole of humanity.

Martin Sheen

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I don't like to waste anything. Any food left over from the night before is always eaten the next day.

Martin Yan

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I want to understand more about the world while I'm still here.

Jostein Gaarder

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In our heads we're all about 33 years old.

Douglas Coupland

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When I was broke, no one ever offered to buy me a beer. Now that I have quite a bit of money, everybody tries to buy me beers. Where were all these people back when I was in college and broke?

Chris Moneymaker

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