Out of the ashes of Sara Whitehead rose Melissa Stern. Out of the ashes of Mary Beth Whitehead, there were pieces lost.


Mary Beth Whitehead

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Racism is a stubborn whitehead on the face of society.
STEFAN EMUNDS
I would like to be the sea
I would like to break into millions of pieces
and I would like ...
JANE FADE MERRICK
She [Whitehead] was assured this was a social gathering and not a discussion of individual student c...
GAY CAMPBELL
Terrence Whitehead is a bona fide, Pac-10, 1,000-yard ground gainer.
MIKE BELLOTTI
I'm this high school dropout. I quit in my sophomore year, when I was 15. I worked for a while i...
MARY BETH WHITEHEAD
You cannot contract to sell a baby. If they legalize this contract they may soon start bringing poor...
MARY BETH WHITEHEAD
[He considers me] just a uterus with legs.
MARY BETH WHITEHEAD
I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.
CARL SANDBERG
I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.
CARL SANDBURG
Coach [Tim Whitehead] really gave us an emotional speech in the locker room before the game. It mean...
DEREK DAMON
Who are we if not the stories we pass down? What happens when there's no one left to tell those stor...
CARRIE RYAN
Doing fine...Doing fine... Life is as a rose pedal floating in the wind. A daisy caught up in the so...
JUSTIN D WHITEHEAD
I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON
It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON
I don't hate you, Jace."
"I don't hate you, either."
She looked up at him, relieved. "I'm ...
CASSANDRA CLARE
Desire is not always lessened by disgust. Nor can it be bestowed, like a favor, to those most deserv...
CASSANDRA CLARE
Magnus glanced at Alec and raised his eyebrows "Boo", he said. Jace was grinning. "Come on,surely yo...
CASSANDRA CLARE
Mother." Alec's voice as he interrupted his mother was firm, implacable, and not
unkind. "Fathe...
CASSANDRA CLARE
Jace threw his hands up. "So it doesn't work."
"Not necessarily," Luke said. "There might simpl...
CASSANDRA CLARE
I'm pure at heart. It repels the dirt.
CASSANDRA CLARE
Honestly, Clary, if you don't start utilizing a bit of your natural feminine superiority I just don'...
CASSANDRA CLARE
That you freed a possible criminal by trading away your brother to a warlock who looks like a gay so...
CASSANDRA CLARE
It was close for longer than what I thought, but Julie and Mary Beth did a great job. Heidi, April a...
JOE SIECINSKI
I can't account for Beth at all, ... I would not say in any of my books that things have gotten away...
JOAN BARFOOT
At times, the solution to a maze is to reduce it to embers ans walk straight through the ashes."
MARY DORIA RUSSELL
You have something on your neck.
What
Looks like a bite mark, what were you doing out al...
CASSANDRA CLARE
You can take your Law," she said in a measured tone, "and shove it right up your-
CASSANDRA CLARE
It is my fault".
"You're right. It is". At that Jace looked up in absolute astonishment....
CASSANDRA CLARE
It is my fault".
"You're right. It is". At that Jace looked up in absolute astonishment...
CASSANDRA CLARE
There's no need to clarify my finger snap," said Magnus. "The implication was clear in the snap itse...
CASSANDRA CLARE
We need to talk. All of us About what we're going to do now."
"I was going to watch Project Run...
CASSANDRA CLARE
Dios," he said, addressing himself to Jace. "What happened to you, brother? You look as if a pack of...
CASSANDRA CLARE
I might have the whole world now, but it's not enough if I don't get to share it with her.
BETH REVIS
I do not want a player who is a perfect man and has a fantastic character. That’s the kind of guy ...
JOSé MOURINHO
Well it was not exactly a dissertation in logic, at least not the kind of logic you would find in Wh...
ALONZO CHURCH
Isabelle," she said, lightening her tone with an obvious effort, "your loyalty to your friend is und...
CASSANDRA CLARE
He plants himself right there in front of Craig’s mother and says, “You need to love him. I don�...
DAVID LEVITHAN
The beth din is the court of the chief rabbi. I see myself taking an active role within the beth din...
EPHRAIM MIRVIS
This account is not accurate. It is embellished and false. (Whitehead) is simply not telling the tru...
DARREN DOPP
Even the Inquisitor's eyebrows shot up when Magnus strode through the gate. The High Warlock was wea...
CASSANDRA CLARE
If you're texting Magnus to say 'I think u r kewl' I'm going to kill you
CASSANDRA CLARE
What did Isabelle want?" Jace asked.
Alec hesitated. "Isabelle says the Queen of the Seelie Cou...
CASSANDRA CLARE
Valentine!"
"You mean father. I despise this modern habit of calling one's parents by their nam...
CASSANDRA CLARE
Unpleasant?" he finished for her.
"Only on the days when my adoptive mother tosses me out of th...
CASSANDRA CLARE
Now this is really going to impress Valentine."
"I don't know," Clary said. "Other crack teams ...
CASSANDRA CLARE
Well I'm not kissing the mundane," said Jace. "I'd rather stay down here and rot."
"Forever?" s...
CASSANDRA CLARE
He slid his stele across the table toward her. "Use it." "No," Clary said, and pushed the stele back...
CASSANDRA CLARE
How'd you get Magnus to let Jace leave?"
"Traded him for Alec," Clary said.
CASSANDRA CLARE
Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry a...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimate...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly moth...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a pro...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
POPE JOHN PAUL II
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
POPE JOHN PAUL II
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, on...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressi...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not d...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law e...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day t...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
The future starts today, not tomorrow.
POPE JOHN PAUL II
The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and b...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to re...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, ther...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Ash held one finger up. "OK. Now listen-"
Mary-Lynnette kicked him in the shins. She knew it wa...
L.J. SMITH
As we read, ponder, and pray, there will come into our minds a view of the three gardens of God—th...
BRUCE R. MCCONKIE
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
DAVID OGILVY
It's not funny, Jace," Alec interrupted, starting to his feet. "Are you just going to let her stand ...
CASSANDRA CLARE
You've never really trusted him, though you don't understand why. Something about the fact that he's...
N.K. JEMISIN
The scars of others should teach us caution.
ST. JEROME
They talk like angels but they live like men.
ST. JEROME
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not...
SAINT AUGUSTINE
The most High approveth not the gifts of the wicked.
SAINT PATRICK
I see that already in this present world I am exalted above measure by the Lord. And I was not worth...
SAINT PATRICK
He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presen...
SAINT PATRICK
I was freeborn according to the flesh; I am born of a father who was a decurion, but I sold my noble...
SAINT PATRICK
I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquir...
SAINT PATRICK
The Lord discovered to me a sense of my unbelief that, though late, I should remember my transgressi...
SAINT PATRICK
Let who will scoff and revile - I will not remain silent; neither will I conceal the signs and wonde...
SAINT PATRICK
I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, bec...
SAINT PATRICK
I have a Creator who knew all things, even before they were made - even me, his poor little child.
SAINT PATRICK
I have vowed to my God to teach the heathen, though I be despised by some.
SAINT PATRICK
No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small acco...
SAINT PATRICK
The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.
SAINT PATRICK
It was not any grace in me, but God that put this earnest care into my heart, that I should be one o...
SAINT PATRICK
Sufficient for me is that honour which is not seen of men but is felt in the heart, as faithful is H...
SAINT PATRICK
Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in h...
SAINT PATRICK
I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of ...
SAINT PATRICK
The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough.
SAINT PATRICK

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In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it ...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idea...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelli...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
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BARBARA DAFOE WHITEHEAD
Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
There are no whole truths. All truths are half truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths th...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuse...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099 Apart from God every activity is merely a pas...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
The power of God is the worship He inspires. That religion is strong which in its ritual and its mod...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it i...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refu...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and tha...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without t...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuse...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real knowledge, it...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into th...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nigh...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emer...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
Philosophy is the product of wonder.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
Common sense is genius in homespun.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. . . . Civilisation is the maintenance of...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
The vigour of civilised societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth whil...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
There are two principles inherent in the very nature of things, recurring in some particular embodim...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
Necessity is the mother of invention is a silly proverb. Necessity is the mother of futile dodges is...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
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In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion w...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that,...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbour...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to u...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD