Sara Saber > Sara's Quotes

“Priscilla watched her husband as he slowly drifted into sleep, and once he was asleep, she took hold of his hand and put it to her face and smelled all of the outside world that he had brought in with him and then she tried to find sleep herself.”
― Edward P. Jones, The Known World

“Mary O'Donnell had been nursing that baby, and the day after Agnes was committed to the sea, her milk stopped flowing. She thought it only a natural result of grieving for Agnes. She would go on to have three more children with her second husband, the seller of Augustus Townsend's walking sticks, but with each child the milk did not return. "Where is my milk?" Mary asked God with each of the three children. "Where is my milk?" God did not give her an answer and he gave her not one drop of milk. With the second and third children, she asked Mary the mother of Jesus to intercede with God on her behalf. "Didn't he give you milk for your child?" she asked Mary. "Wasn't there milk aplenty for Jesus?”
― Edward P. Jones, The Known World

“A man does not learn very well, Mr. Robbins. Women, yes, because they are used to bending with whatever wind comes along. A woman, no matter the age, is always learning, always becoming. But a man, if you will pardon me, stops learning at fourteen or so. He shuts it all down, Mr. Robbins. A log is capable of learning more than a man. To teach a man would be a battle, a war, and I would lose.”
― Edward P. Jones, The Known World

“Whenever people in that part of the world asked Patterson about the wonders of America, the possibilities and the hope of America, Patterson would say that it was a good and fine place but all the Americans were running it into the ground and that it would be a far better place if it had no Americans.”
― Edward P. Jones, The Known World

“God is in his heaven and he don't care most of the time. The trick of life is to know when God does care and do all you need to do behind his back.”
― Edward P. Jones, The Known World

“It's true that men say, "A man's love comes from his stomach". But there's nothing in this statement that requires you to cook the food before it ends up in his stomach.”
― Sherry Argov, Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl―A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

“A girlfriend went on a couple of dates with a guy who criticized the color of her nail polish. She said, "The suggestion department is closed for the evening, but fax your idea tomorrow and we'll file it right over there in the suggestion box." (Then she pointed to the kitchen trash.)”
― Sherry Argov, Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl―A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option”
― Nina Potts

“كان ينتقل من فشلٍ في المقاومة إلى مقاومة أن ينجح.”
― إبراهيم عيسى, مولانا

“الصدق مع النفس خبيث وشرير وفيروس إن اخترق البدن ضرب كل المنظومة الخرسانية التي تصلب طولك في الدنيا، طرح الأسئلة مهلك والمرايا الداخلية تنكسر أبرك.”
― إبراهيم عيسى, مولانا

“السادات الله يرحمه كان يقول "لا سياسة في الدين ولا دين في السياسة"، وأنا شعاري "لا سياسة في السياسة ولا دين في الدين”
― إبراهيم عيسى, مولانا

“المسيحية يوم ما خرجت من بيت لحم بقت سياسة والإسلام ليلة ما مات النبي بقي سياسة.”
― إبراهيم عيسى, مولانا