Victor E. Smith quote: "The moment a man buries the God of his ancestors, the God preached to him but not experienced by him, is life-changing. Blessed are the fortunate few who can stride away from the gravesite of their ancestral divinity resurrected into their own complete humanity."

Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
F. E. SMITH

The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords.
F. E. SMITH

Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
ALFRED E. SMITH

Emily tucks her knees up beneath her and leans forward on the table. 'Do you like Ryan?' she asks Ni...
JENNIFER E. SMITH

Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?
JENNIFER E. SMITH

He looks at her and smiles. "You're sort of dangerous, you know?"
She stares at him. "Me?" JENNIFER E. SMITH

Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, y...
ALFRED E. SMITH

All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.
ALFRED E. SMITH

The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.
ALFRED E. SMITH

Clare's been called a lot of things- smart and funny, driven and talented- but memorable certainly i...
JENNIFER E. SMITH

I read daft history books. Sometimes the books I read are a bit crackers or strange.
MARK E. SMITH

That's the thing about flying: You could talk to someone for hours and never even know his name, sha...
JENNIFER E. SMITH

After all, it's one thing to run away when someone's chasing you. It's entirely another to be runnin...
JENNIFER E. SMITH

People who meet in airports are seventy-two percent more likely to fall for each other than people w...
JENNIFER E. SMITH

I used to be psychic, but I drank my way out of it.
MARK E. SMITH

People talk about books being an escape, but here on the tube, this one feels more like a lifeline.....
JENNIFER E. SMITH

But it was different, somehow, to be reading it here, where the actual events had taken place all th...
JENNIFER E. SMITH

They were just so different, and she kept wondering if he'd realize this was a mistake at some point...
JENNIFER E. SMITH

There was a lot of pretense floating around; not just with aunties and all that but with emotions an...
MARK E. SMITH

The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.
ALFRED E. SMITH

If it's me and yer granny on bongos, it's the Fall.
MARK E. SMITH

Love is the strangest, most illogical thing in the world.
JENNIFER E. SMITH

No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to s...
ALFRED E. SMITH

My earliest memory is learning to read 'Muffin the Mule' when I was about three.
MARK E. SMITH

And when the time finally comes to say good-bye, she'll swallow hard against the tightness of her th...
JENNIFER E. SMITH

It's not about winning or losing, really,” he’s saying. “It’s just the showing up every day....
JENNIFER E. SMITH

Talking to you is one of my favorite things to do."

"Top 10?" she asked.

"Top ...
JENNIFER E. SMITH

She filed those moments away like precious documents, wore them smooth with memory, collected them l...
JENNIFER E. SMITH

Hi,' he says.
'Hi,' she says back, and then to her great surprise, she begins to cry.
'You...
JENNIFER E. SMITH

Beside her, she can feel each breath he draws. How is it possible to be so close to a person and sti...
JENNIFER E. SMITH

She understands now what she, in all her worry, had forgotten. That even as she hesitates and wavers...
JENNIFER E. SMITH

But how could she tell him that the reason she always acted so disinterested in everything was becau...
JENNIFER E. SMITH

It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with wh...
ALFRED E. SMITH

There are certain things in life that you'll be forgiven for, no matter how thoughtless or stupid or...
JENNIFER E. SMITH

Is it possible not to ever know your type--not to even know you have a type--until quite suddenly yo...
JENNIFER E. SMITH

The important part is that you had someone to stick by you all that time. Even when everything sucke...
JENNIFER E. SMITH

Childhood memories were like airplane luggage; no matter how far you were traveling or how long you ...
JENNIFER E. SMITH

He’s like a song she can’t get out of her
head.
JENNIFER E. SMITH

I'm not sure I even believe in marriage," Hadley says and he looks surprised.

"Aren't you...
JENNIFER E. SMITH

There's a kind of unfamiliar electricity that goes through her at the nearness of him, and she can't...
JENNIFER E. SMITH

Well, I guess we all can't have epic loves at such a young age.
JENNIFER E. SMITH

What are you really studying?"
He leans back to look at her. "The statistical probability of l...
JENNIFER E. SMITH

He was a professor, a lover of stories, and he was building her a library in the same way other men ...
JENNIFER E. SMITH

Look what a hard time I've given him. But no matter how many times I've pushed him away, he always c...
JENNIFER E. SMITH

Hadley grabs the laminated safety instructions from the seat pocket in front of her and frowns at th...
JENNIFER E. SMITH

You know what they say, if you love something, set it free.
JENNIFER E. SMITH

But Hadley understood. It wasn't that she was meant to read them all. Maybe someday she would, but f...
JENNIFER E. SMITH

There’s always a gap between the burn and the sting of it, the pain and the realization.
JENNIFER E. SMITH

And see those clouds?'
'Hard to miss'
'Those are cumulus clouds. Did you know that?'
...
JENNIFER E. SMITH

Hadley didn't know it was possible to miss someone who's only a few feet away, but there it is.
JENNIFER E. SMITH

Love isn't supposed to make sense. It's completely illogical.
JENNIFER E. SMITH

And in August it will be fifty-two years together.”
“Wow,” Oliver says. “That’s amazi...
JENNIFER E. SMITH

Is it possible not to ever know your type-not to even know you have a type-until quite suddenly you ...
JENNIFER E. SMITH

There's a formula for how long it takes to get over someone, that it's half as long as the time you'...
JENNIFER E. SMITH

Because I was with you," he tells her. "I feel better when I'm with you.
JENNIFER E. SMITH

You know what they say," Dad said. "If you love something, set it free."
"What if he doesn't co...
JENNIFER E. SMITH

Who would have guessed that four minutes could change everything?
JENNIFER E. SMITH

I like how you're neither here nor there. And how there's nowhere else you're meant to be while wait...
JENNIFER E. SMITH

I can't believe you're here," she says, her voice soft. "I can't believe you found me."

"...
JENNIFER E. SMITH

It's one thing to run away when someone's chasing you. It's entirely another to be running all alone...
JENNIFER E. SMITH

Did you know that people who meet at least three different times within twenty-four hour period are ...
JENNIFER E. SMITH

What are you really studying?"
He leans back to look at her. "The statistical probability of lo...
JENNIFER E. SMITH

He’s like a song she can’t get out of her head. Hard as she tries, the melody of their meeting r...
JENNIFER E. SMITH

It's not the changes that will break your heart; it's that tug of familiarity.
JENNIFER E. SMITH

'Re-Mit' is going to terrify people. It's quite horrible. The Fall have had enough and w...
MARK E. SMITH

After walking the Royal Mile, we visit Edinburgh Castle. Overlooking the city from the grassy hillto...
JACQUELINE E. SMITH

I haven’t even been here an hour and already, Edinburgh is the city of my dreams.
JACQUELINE E. SMITH

Tonight, Dunadhar Castle is ours.
JACQUELINE E. SMITH

In my stories, I wrote Malcolm as fire and gold and power, but here in my arms, Colin is cedar, silv...
JACQUELINE E. SMITH

I knew it was coming. I knew they didn't have the nerve.
Three days in and they've got faces li...
MARK E. SMITH

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Nothing recedes like progress.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
E. E. CUMMINGS

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It takes three to make a child.
E. E. CUMMINGS

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. When the judgement day comes, God w...
E E CUMMINGS

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E E CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS

He without fear is king of the world.
E. E. EDDISON

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight th...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E E CUMMINGS

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
E. E. CUMMINGS

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blu...
E. E. CUMMINGS

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E. E. CUMMINGS

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Palm Sunday In the person of Christ, the formidable law of God, which by itself appalls us by its...
E. E. JENKINS

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E E CUMMINGS

The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical er...
E E CUMMINGS

To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybod...
E E CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybod...
E E CUMMINGS

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E E CUMMINGS

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E E CUMMINGS

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E E CUMMINGS

Life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis
E E CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E E CUMMINGS

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
...
E E CUMMINGS

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn&#...
E. E. CUMMINGS

who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty peo...
E. E. CUMMINGS

for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) / it's always ourselves we find in the sea
E. E. CUMMINGS

The earth laughs in flowers.
E. E. CUMMINGS

The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E. E. CUMMINGS

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Here is the deepest secret nobody knows.Here is the root of the root and the bud of the budAnd the s...
E. E. CUMMINGS

"maggie and millie and molly and may"maggie and millie and molly and maywent down to the beach (to p...
E. E. CUMMINGS

The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.
E. E. CUMMINGS

and it's you whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I don't know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice o...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Art is a mystery.A mystery is something immeasurable.In so far as every child and woman and man may ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Progress is a comfortable disease.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Since feeling is first, who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you, w...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Be of love (a little) more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink
E. E. CUMMINGS

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, wort...
E. E. CUMMINGS

next to of course god america i / love you land of the pilgrims and so forth oh
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everyb...
E. E. CUMMINGS

he sang his didn't he danced his did
E. E. CUMMINGS

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little -- somebody who is obses...
E. E. CUMMINGS

and down went / my Uncle / Sol / and started a worm farm
E. E. CUMMINGS

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsess...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Bless the flowers and the weeds, my birds and bees
E. E. CUMMINGS

"maggie and millie and molly and may"

maggie and millie and molly and may
went down to ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Why do you paint?
For exactly the same reason I breathe.
Thats not an answer.
There is...
E. E. CUMMINGS

I never dreamed about being a millionaire - I dreamed about being a football player.
VICTOR CRUZ

One of the reasons I love devils so much is not based in my faith, but because as a kid, I grew up l...
VICTOR LAVALLE

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
VICTOR HUGO

No one can keep a secret better than a child.
VICTOR HUGO

There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
VICTOR HUGO

But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
VICTOR HUGO

A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
VICTOR HUGO

One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
VICTOR HUGO

The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
VICTOR HUGO

A war between Europeans is a civil war.
VICTOR HUGO

One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to ...
VICTOR HUGO

Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
VICTOR HUGO

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
VICTOR HUGO

I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
VICTOR HUGO

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
VICTOR HUGO

Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even t...
VICTOR HUGO

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
VICTOR HUGO

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman...
VICTOR HUGO

The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.
VICTOR HUGO

Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that...
VICTOR HUGO

The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.
VICTOR HUGO

The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
VICTOR HUGO

Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure.
VICTOR HUGO

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
VICTOR HUGO

Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be...
VICTOR HUGO

To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
VICTOR HUGO

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
VICTOR HUGO

Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes...
VICTOR HUGO

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad inst...
VICTOR HUGO

To love another person is to see the face of God.
VICTOR HUGO

Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
VICTOR HUGO

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
VICTOR HUGO

Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man him...
VICTOR HUGO

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
VICTOR HUGO

One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
VICTOR HUGO

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
VICTOR HUGO

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
VICTOR HUGO

Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
VICTOR HUGO

Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
VICTOR HUGO

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, ...
VICTOR HUGO

The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
VICTOR HUGO

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
VICTOR HUGO

To contemplate is to look at shadows.
VICTOR HUGO

To think of shadows is a serious thing.
VICTOR HUGO

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
VICTOR HUGO

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
VICTOR HUGO

Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
VICTOR HUGO

Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
VICTOR HUGO

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman...
VICTOR HUGO

The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
VICTOR HUGO

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
VICTOR HUGO

To love beauty is to see light.
VICTOR HUGO

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak...
VICTOR HUGO

The moment a man buries the God of his ancestors, the God preached to him but not experienced by him, is life-changing. Blessed are the fortunate few who can stride away from the gravesite of their ancestral divinity resurrected into their own complete humanity.

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Victor E. Smith

The moment a man buries the God of his ancestors, the God preached to him but not experienced by him, is life-changing. Blessed are the fortunate few who can stride away from the gravesite of their ancestral divinity resurrected into their own complete humanity.

Victor E. Smith

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