Griffin Jennings Quotes

I'm not sure about this newness I should look forward too, but I know this begins with me trying to become my own rock. I've leaned on Jackson for the better part of this past month and Wade before that. Being my own rock is promising, but it would be a huge lie if I didn't admit that becoming a mountain with someone else could be equally rewarding. ~ Adam Silvera

I'm blown away by how happy you make me. Thank you for being there for me when I'm stupid enough to think I'd rather be alone. ~ Adam Silvera

It was now pointed out that the black male child, even in a black school using white textbooks, could early come to the conclusion that all the heroes in history were white men. Furthermore, with the exception of nationally known black civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King, Roy Wilkins, James Farmer, and others, the black male child frequently saw the adult black male as ineffectual and defeated. The old picture of the white man leading the black man by the hand toward the solution to his problems again gave the black male child a view of the adult black male as something not worth becoming, and killed his spirit and his will to become an adult, problem-solving individual. ~ John Howard Griffin

Men commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they're back on the streets. Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat. ~ Waylon Jennings

justice must have an improvisational character if it is not to fall back into the sort of legal structure that, in spite of its intentions, can only result in the perpetuation of injustice. ~ Theodore Jennings

Fear dims even the sunlight. ~ John Howard Griffin

We're not going to think about what's happened in the past. ~ Blake Griffin

Guns are dangerous. The only thing more dangerous is not having them. ~ G. Edward Griffin

If you tailor your news viewing so that you only get one point of view, well of course you're going to think somebody else has got a different point of view, and it may be wrong. ~ Peter Jennings

However it might go, I should have no regrets. If I should be reduced to begging in the street, then I should enjoy the feel of pavement beneath my feet and the odors of asphalt and automobile exhausts. Good and bad fortune were equally attractive when viewed in such a context. Hunger was as interesting as satiety. A life without sight was as interesting as life with sight. Who was to say different? Society? The bulk of humanity?
They were living their first lives, cautiously aware that someday they would die. They had everything to lose. They could not take the risks. But I had been through death, had my insides burned out by it twice.
I was living a second life, freed of those cautious awarenesses.
I had nothing to lose. I could take all the risks. ~ John Howard Griffin

Maybe it's time we got back to the basics of love. ~ Waylon Jennings

You don't have to be afraid of falling. Just close your eyes, let go, and know that I'll always be here with arms outstretched, ready to catch you. ~ S.L. Jennings

In the summer evenings, fireflies swarm around the tarn, making something hateful almost beautiful. ~ Bethany Griffin

To this day, the behavior of straight men is something I've never been able to wrap my head around. Have you ever met one? They're really weird. Sometimes they want to have sex without A Chorus Line playing in the background. Yuck. How is that even possible? ~ Kathy Griffin

Heroes put to the test, keeping a promise, doing their best. ~ Waylon Jennings

No one coaches what to do after three seconds, after the quarterback's broken the pocket or he's been in the pocket for five, six seconds. ~ Robert Griffin III

The whole calamity would be in one of those police reports that D. B. Sinclair and his "concerned citizens" filed carefully under "T" for "Things" at the back of a locked filing cabinet in the vehicle-licensing centre a day before a bonfire got accidentally out of control. ~ Kate Griffin

Service is the measure of greatness; it always has been true; it is true today, and it always will be true, that he is greatest who does the most of good. Nearly all of our controversies and combats grow out of the fact that we are trying to get something from each other
there will be peace when our aim is to do something for each other. The human measure of a human life is its income; the divine measure of a life is its outgo, its overflow
its contribution to the welfare of all. ~ William Jennings Bryan

thousand CEOs, business owners, and highly successful entrepreneurs about their businesses and how they lead companies through good times and bad. One of the most important questions I ask them is "What's the biggest worry keeping you awake at night? ~ Jason Jennings

Good." He straddled her, caging her with his body. "Were it up to me, all of London would know what we do here.
-Griffin to Hero. ~ Elizabeth Hoyt

I'm a little vague on the details but aren't doughnuts just the most marvellous thing to ever come out of organised religion? ~ Kate Griffin

We have an unwritten rule now, Him and me. He lets me live my life as I see fit and in return I say the odd quiet prayer in my head. Our gentleman's agreement works. ~ Anne Griffin

Choice not chance determines destiny... ~ Lisa Alexander-Griffin

My kids learned to color on this table. There's been a lot that's went around this table. Waylon Jennings sat right there in that chair and showed Miley the chords to 'Good Hearted Woman.' Sitting in that chair. This table's a bit like life. It's a circle. And I believe everything in life is a circle. You come into this world a little teeny wrinkled-up fetus ~ Billy Ray Cyrus

I had no idea what humans were capable of. I heard they were crafty, but how are they able to do such things?
You mean harness light and water? Speedy asked. Change the weather?
Yes.
It's only the beginning, Speedy said. There are more marvels waiting. Some not so marvelous.
Such as?
Be not in haste, said the tortoise.
There is nothing here but time.
If you live long enough, you will see.
Of course, though, you will see them from your cage.
Live long enough? I asked. Are there mortal dangers here?
The tortoise chuckled.
The boy doesn't always take very good care of his prisoners, Rex the lizard chimed in.
What do you mean? He doesn't feed us enough?
Sometimes he doesn't understand what we need to survive, Rex answered. Sometimes he plays too rough.
How can a creature able to bend the laws of nature be so cruel? I asked. ~ Patrick Jennings

Nothing's wrong. You're coming, baby. You're coming for me. ~ S.L. Jennings

Kissing Ally would be so easy. Touching her, holding her, tasting her ... it'd be like breathing.
I want to breathe. I want to inhale her in every way possible. I want her life to sustain me, her heartbeat to synchronize with mine.
But I don't want to taint her. I don't want her to be like me. A cheater. A deviant. An outcast. She deserves better, and I'm not better. ~ S.L. Jennings

What did you pray for?" Griffin asked.
"Nothing," she said.
"Nothing?"
"I tried," she said. "But I kept having sex flashbacks from last night. Don't worry. God's used to this from me. ~ Tiffany Reisz

I put the team on my back doh. ~ Greg Jennings

Fire will run like poetry through your blood. ~ Rachel Neumeier

When a meeting goes way too long always remember that some people need to talk, but some people need to go home. ~ Jim Jennings

Or maybe I was just in progress. Hatching another character for another extraordinary story, yet untold. ~ Adele Griffin

Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. ~ William Jennings Bryan

We're all sinners, Eden. Some of us just sin differently than others. ~ S.L. Jennings

Fear is a good thing because it keeps you alive, but if it becomes so great that it hinders you from doing what you want, you need to confront it head-on ~ Forrest Griffin

I'm going to be working on my shot. Working on extending my range. Keep working on everything, and really studying the game. ~ Blake Griffin

Audiences forget facts, but they remember stories. Once you get past the jargon, the corporate world is an endless source of fascinating stories. ~ Ian P. Griffin

Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal. ~ William Jennings Bryan

She had an incredible amount of admiration for these talented men who dedicated themselves to training and practicing and honing their skills in order to be part of one of the most elite fighting forces in the world. ~ Laura Griffin

If Lincoln's primary goal in the War was not the abolition of slavery but simply to preserve the Union, the question arises: Why did the Union need preserving? Or, more pointedly, why did the Southern states want to secede? ~ G. Edward Griffin

@The darkest and most complex novel in (the Murdoch) series. ~ Maureen Jennings

Many a business depends for its success on some girl who is smart enough to see to it that her boss gets his work done, who sometimes even does his work for him, who keeps everybody satisfied and happy, and who has enough foresight to control new situations as they occur. How do you go about finding such a jewel? ... RICHARD and RUBIN, How to Select and Direct the Office Staff ~ Susan Griffin

As a director, I've been able to combine with what I've learned as an actor and as a producer: it melds quite nicely into what I feel like I should have been doing all along. ~ Griffin Dunne

Often I have to move my body in a certain way, like exercising, to begin to get into the right rhythm for writing a song. ~ Patty Griffin

The large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits. ~ William Jennings Bryan

I want to own you," Griffin whispered into Michael's ear. Michael smiled and for the first time in his life knew exactly what to say and how to say it. "You already do. ~ Tiffany Reisz

A cold front had rumbled through in the night, left its rain behind in wide, deep puddles that reflected the first autumn sky of the year, the kind of blue so startling children demand a reason. They reflected the trees that rose out of them, too, as if those trees had no roots but reached with their branches as deep into a sky at our feet as they did into the one above our heads, as if you could take one step and fall forever upwards. The world was a bright, strange place, I thought, where none of us belonged. ~ Matthew Griffin

Just as the Bible teaches, to give is to live. This is how God designed life to function. ~ Timothy R. Jennings

Her hope was to embarrass me. Little does she know, I'm fluent in Asshole. ~ S.L. Jennings

MY LIFE IS a beautiful tragedy. A sad love story on an endless loop. The players may evolve and the setting may change, but it's always the same. Love. Pain. Death. Repeat. ~ S.L. Jennings

Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance. ~ William Jennings Bryan