Nancy B Brewer Quotes

Of course in 1860, I had heard the political talk. ~ Nancy B. Brewer

Perhaps you have visited my grave and flowers left, but did you hear me cry out to you! ~ Nancy B. Brewer

I believe that all things happen under the watchful eye of God and the lessons we learn along the way only serve to make us stronger. ~ Nancy B. Brewer

Like the magnolia tree,
She bends with the wind,
Trials and tribulation may weather her,
Yet, after the storm her beauty blooms,
See her standing there, like steel,
With her roots forever buried,
Deep in her Southern soil. ~ Nancy B. Brewer

Rebel Number Four" is waiting patiently by the door. I named him "Rebel Number Four," for he is the fourth of his kind I have given the name "Rebel." To many he may be just a hound dog, but to me he is a champion and a friend to the end. ~ Nancy B. Brewer

As my body recalled my soul, I began to quiver with pain and gasp for air. ~ Nancy B. Brewer

{In the shadows where the ancestors sleep, the bird's song is young, but all else is old. Stillness surrounds me and I breathe softly expecting the unexpected.} from book in progress ~ Nancy B. Brewer

On this night of the Harvest Moon. They tossed bones into the "Bone Fire" and asked the yellow moon to shine its protection over them. (Today we call it a "Bonfire") ~ Nancy B. Brewer

The sun flickers through the trees and shines upon the faces of the men lined up on the porches. Soldiers no more, just ordinary men who, by the grace of God, were spared to tell their stories ~ Nancy B. Brewer

I consider all things a work of fiction, even myself. ~ Nancy B. Brewer

Red for the blood of Christ, green for his everlasting love, blue for heaven above, and old for the King of Kings. ~ Nancy B. Brewer

Are you a traveling man he asked? ~ Nancy B. Brewer

To those of you who have lost your way, may my story serve as a reminder that life is a journey. The lessons we learn along the way are not for our sake alone. We are obligated to share them ~ Nancy B. Brewer

I brought you something. It's my sister's coat. It
gets cold in Nashville in the wintertime. ~ Nancy B. Brewer

I am a survivor. But I am not unique of the people that survived the great late war. We all have our stories to tell. But for most of us the hardened corners have soften with the passage of time. ~ Nancy B. Brewer

(The golden goose has died, my prince turned into a frog, the Kingdom is lost, everyone has turned into stone and I am locked in the tower) ~ Nancy B. Brewer

With time, grief has a way of slipping down in the crevices of your heart. It never really leaves; it just makes room for more. ~ Nancy B. Brewer

We Southerners are a strong lot. Like our ancestors before us, we will survive. I will never lose faith. I am standing on the promise that tomorrow will be a better day. ~ Nancy B. Brewer

Never begrudge others their happiness. Who knows when happiness will be short lived? ~ Nancy B. Brewer

The rose that grows in grace will blossom into beauty ~ Nancy B. Brewer

Today's breakfast consist of rice and a piece of bread fried in a bit of salt pork grease. At least I have my memories of grand banquets and fine foods, but this is all the children have ever known. I suppose it is best not to have anything to compare. ~ Nancy B. Brewer

For in the forest someone is always watching and someone is always listening! ~ Nancy B. Brewer

I turned to see a young woman with bed hair, wearing a only a thin nightdress. ~ Nancy B. Brewer

I could faintly smell the ocean. I imagined being one of the old oak trees standing there swaying in the wind and braving all sorts of weather. I pondered what they had seen in the past and what they might see in the future ~ Nancy B. Brewer

Her blue eyes are full of tears, but she is smiling. Her expression is as bright as a newborn Christian.} one my favorite lines from Beyond Sandy Ridge. ~ Nancy B. Brewer

For with all that is grand, grander is the expansion of the mind. ~ Nancy B. Brewer

Yet, the quest for knowledge will overcome us and we must know. And, at last, we must see where the road ends, even if it be the cliff. ~ Nancy B. Brewer

Humans will never be in charge of this world, as long as dust and weeds do as they please. ~ Nancy B. Brewer

God does not care what you have done, but only what you will do ~ Nancy B. Brewer

It was not an unusual site to see Negro tenant farmers crossing the intersection of Spring and Barbrick on the way to the cotton warehouse ~ Nancy B. Brewer

I wonder if it is possible to escape the clinches of despair; or would despair become the hunter and reclaim me as its prisoner. ~ Nancy B. Brewer

Any woman looks innocent in a white veil ~ Nancy B. Brewer

Mother used to say if you stood out in a rain like that; it would wash away your sins- ~ Nancy B. Brewer

The heavy smell of incense gave me an uneasy feeling as if I had walked into a tomb ~ Nancy B. Brewer

The seamstress
With fingers weary and worn,
And eyelids heavy and red,
Long after the house sleeps,
Still in her chair she sits.
Her needle flickering, in-out,
Daylight nears and the fire burns low,
Alone with her shirt, still she sews.
She, held prisoner by her thread,
Her heads nods, but sleep forbids,
Just one more seam or button two.
Listen brothers, sons and husbands all,
Call it not just cotton, linen or only wool,
Count each stitch and say a prayer,
For heart and soul that put them there. ~ Nancy B. Brewer

Hollering at the top of his voice, a little boy walks by a cranky old man. "Boy, why are you a hollering as I walk by?" The little boy replies, "Old man, why are you walking by when I am a hollering. ~ Nancy B. Brewer

He is dressed in a long, white robe and in his hand is a white cap. I draw up as he passes down the hall; he does not see me. Shortly I hear a horse leaving. There is much I do not know about him, but tonight I know one of his secrets. He is a midnight rider. ~ Nancy B. Brewer

He smiled at me and I felt the tenderness only a daughter could feel. ~ Nancy B. Brewer

I don't know where we are, but we'll soon find our way home! Le avventure di Pinocchio ~ Nancy B. Brewer

Children worked in the mills: I will always believe that children are designed for green meadows and play, not for factories and cotton dust. ~ Nancy B. Brewer

As I held the family Bible in my hand and I could almost feel the joys and sorrows that connected me to the past. ~ Nancy B. Brewer

Sea and land may lie between us, but my heart is always there with you. ~ Nancy B. Brewer

I recall the words, the faces, the stale perfume and the pungent odor that filled the room.. ~ Nancy B. Brewer

She turned her painted blue eyes toward the assistant and said something in French before she left. ~ Nancy B. Brewer

The people who say dreams never come true, must have been asleep when opportunity knocked ~ Nancy B. Brewer

I stop to brace myself against the walls, which are painted with the fingerprints of family. ~ Nancy B. Brewer

The mind builds its own home- ~ Nancy B. Brewer

Now here I am, living in the land of tall pine trees and red dirt hills ~ Nancy B. Brewer

Daddy-by Nancy B. Brewer
When I used to say, speak up you are as good as they, You would just smile and say, let them have their way. When in my foolish youth, I so often disobeyed,
He would just smile and say, let her have her way. When summer passed and winter overcame. He was not afraid, never once did he say. When in the moonlight his final hour came, He just smiled and said Lord I'll go your way. ~ Nancy B. Brewer

I am strong as steel and my roots are planted deep in this southern soil. Time may have weathered me, but I will always bend with the wind ~ Nancy B. Brewer

Have you forgotten me?
by Nancy B. Brewer

The bricks I laid or the stitches I sewed.
I was the one that made the quilt; a drop of blood still shows from my needle prick.
Your wedding day in lace and satin, in a dress once worn by me.
I loaned your newborn baby my christening gown, a hint of lavender still preserved.

Do you know our cause, the battles we won and the battles we lost?
When our soldiers marched home did you shout hooray!
Or shed a tear for the fallen sons.

What of the fields we plowed, the cotton, the tobacco and the okra, too.
There was always room at my table for one more,
Fried chicken, apple pie, biscuits and sweet ice tea.

A time or two you may have heard our stories politely told.
Some of us are famous, recorded on the pages of history.
Still, most of us left this world without glory or acknowledgment.

We were the first to walk the streets you now call home,
Perhaps you have visited my grave and flowers left,
but did you hear me cry out to you?

Listen, my child, to the voices of your ancestors.
Take pride in our accomplishments; find your strength in our suffering.
For WE are not just voices in the wind, WE are a living part of YOU! ~ Nancy B. Brewer

God only knows what the doctor gave her. However,the medication has run out and she now must face the reality on her on accord. ~ Nancy B. Brewer

To those of you who are enslaved by your past, may my story set you free. For youth is innocent and its beauty is to always be cherished. ~ Nancy B. Brewer

Papa was our strength and the very fiber that wove our family together. He was our foundation and our rock, but even rocks, break, given enough stress. ~ Nancy B. Brewer

It appears to me that man must always have war. When one great rebellion ends, another will begin. Do they fight for a great cause or is it egos that must be conquered? ~ Nancy B. Brewer

Before I disappear behind the door, I stop and turn around to look at him. ~ Nancy B. Brewer

However, the path of God is unknown and deep are the waters. Often do we see what is pleasing, take a sudden turn of providence, that deprives even the most Godly of their happiness. We should not fear theses changes and trust that all things work for the greater good. ~ Nancy B. Brewer

I once tried hawking my own book around the pubs in the hope that, like the Salvation Army, I too could sell to the cerebrally relaxed. It was a disaster. I had beer thrown over me for being a) a nuisance, b) not as good as Wordsworth and c) a nancy for writing poetry in the first place. ~ Peter Finch

Life is not a straight forward plain ... no linear pattern, simply A to B, and on to C and inevitably ending us up at Z, where we are the inevitably tossed by angels into heaven or hell. Progression is immaterial, time relative. For Jacob, life ebbed and flowed into complex woven conundrums of interrelatedness, of stops and starts and intervening presents transforming over and into elaborate and repeating futures. He believed that at all times man existed with one foot in heaven, another in hell, and everywhere in between and within lay his soul. ~ Nancy Young

One hobby I did not pick up was crocheting, an obsession among prisoners throughout the system. Some of the handiwork was impressive. The inmate who ran the laundry was a surly rural white woman named Nancy whose dislike for anyone but "northerners" was hardly a secret. Her personality left a lot to be desired, but she was a remarkable crochet artist. One day in C Dorm I happened upon Nancy standing with my neighbor Allie B. and mopey Sally, all howling with laughter. "What?" I asked, innocently. "Show her, Nancy!" giggled Allie. Nancy opened her hand. Perched there in her palm was an astonishingly lifelike crochet penis. Average in size, it was erect, fashioned of pink cotton yarn, with balls and a smattering of brown cotton pubic hair, and a squirt of white yarn ejaculate at the tip. ~ Piper Kerman

Nothing could convince Aunt Nelly to let Vlad stay home for the duration of the school year, which just goes to prove that parents and guardians don't care if they're sending you to face bloodthirsty monsters, so long as you get a B in English. ~ Heather Brewer

Surrender to the ridiculous ~ Killian B. Brewer

I've never felt just like me, just like Alison. I can't be myself in this family because it's more important that I be ... this person who's not ... Adam. Who's normal. Smart. Good. Who's not ... Autistic. ~ Nancy Werlin

Then and now, broken sinners are the kinds of people God chooses to save, to bless, and to help. ~ Nancy Leigh DeMoss

they rode out, careful to stay off the trail in case the bluecoats took their revenge against any Indians they could find. As ~ Nancy Morse

Witches, wolves, and moral friend There is horror that does not end War is waged and battles fought But have you stopped to count the cost? We are the ones backed by right We must strike with bold and might The cursed ones blamless be Warm them of the Hunters you see ~ Nancy Holder

Tom Foley was a statesman, and it was a privilege to serve under him when he was the Speaker of the House. He loved our country. He was a gentleman. I had the privilege of seeing him a couple days before he passed away. ~ Nancy Pelosi

They were Siamese twins, joined at the groin by a traitorous piece of meat. ~ Nancy A. Collins

Life and death are in constant battle. There is no way in this world for happiness to exist alone ... ~ Nancy Farmer

It's dangerous to start attributing your fortunes to luck and your misfortunes to fate. ~ Nancy Pickard

A biblically based worldview is capable of affirming the best insights of secular philosophies without ever falling into reductionism. ~ Nancy Pearcey

I make believe all my dear ones are not gone, just out of my line of sight beyond some curtain or cluster of people, or tree ~ Nancy E. Turner

Keep it. When you have enough of my clothes at your place, I'll have to start staying overnight so I can get dressed."
"Dream on, Savoie."
"Every night, detective. ~ Nancy Gideon

The only difference between the failure of a great idea and the success of a medocre idea was the way in which the idea was communicated. ~ Nancy Duarte

Eating more than you need is not necessarily a sign of a chemical imbalance or eating the wrong types of food. It is a sign that you are fundamentally out of balance. ~ Nancy Dale

It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace. ~ Nancy Gibbs

As she walked, she breathed a quick benediction to the patron saint of sleuthing. "Nancy Drew," she whispered, "be with me now. ~ Colin Meloy

Love's kind of like sweet tea. The secret is all in having the patience to let it steep. ~ Pearl Clemmons (Sweet Tea and Secrets) ~ Nancy Naigle

Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie. ~ Nancy Gibbs

Somewhere I read that human beings are the only creatures to spend the present driving themselves crazy about the future. ~ Nancy Thayer

Cursive writing does not mean what I think it does. ~ Nancy Cartwright

Why should being quiet mean you're in love?
Because, she said. That means you aren't nervous with each other, or affected, or likely to be hiding intentions behind too much conversation. A friendly silence can speak between two who will walk together a long way, she said. ~ Nancy E. Turner

One of the great changes wrought by the increased public awareness of Alzheimer's - and thank you, Nancy Reagan, you wonderful tough old dame, you - is that people in the early stages of the disease are now speaking out while they still have the capacity to do so. ~ Charlie Pierce

Proper Preparation Prevents Poor Performance ~ Nancy Pelosi

A runner's stride is not perfectly efficient. ~ Nancy Gibbs

Beginning with sin instead of creation is like trying to read a book by opening it in the middle: You don't know the characters and can't make sense of the plot. ~ Nancy Pearcey

Galen maintained that the human womb had two cavities, in which he was followed by the major Arabic medical writers. The idea that there were seven divisions, three warmer ones on the right engendering males, three colder ones on the left engendering females, and a seventh, in the middle, producing a hermaphrodite,
may have resulted from a systemization in Byzantine medicine of various separate ancient ideas bearing upon multiple births and sex differentiation; ~ Nancy G. Siraisi

I still don't think I've ever read a Nancy Drew book; I probably read three or four 'Hardy Boys' books when I was 10, 11, 12, and I didn't love them at the time. Even then, they felt dated to me, like the word chum - 'my chum and I.' However, the 'Encyclopedia Brown' books, I read all of them. ~ Rob Thomas

Americans sometimes ask what the government does and where their tax money goes. Among other things, it pays for all kinds of invisible but essential safety nets and life belts and guardrails that are useless right up until the day they are priceless. ~ Nancy Gibbs

There's a big, wonderful world out there for you. It belongs to you. It's exciting and stimulating and rewarding. Don't cheat yourselves out of this promise. ~ Nancy Reagan

Pregnancy is a natural event, but you lessen the chances conception can occur with an unnatural diet. ~ Nancy S. Mure

...unless you value yourself, you won't have the motivation to exercise, get enough sleep, eat healthfully, and care for yourself. ~ Doreen Virtue

The future isn't a place that we're going to go, it's a place that you get to create. ~ Nancy Duarte

I was the one who was always calling people. ~ Nancy Reagan

The Sixties, of course, was the worst time in the world to try and bring up a child. They were exposed to all these crazy things going on. ~ Nancy Reagan

But Eisenhower's advice was consistent, from his days as a general, to his years in the White House, to his role as veteran counselor: don't fight unless you are in it to win. Don't waste time and lives with half measures. ~ Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy

Emery cut in impatiantly, "For crying out loud. Who do you think you are, Nancy Drew?"
Hey," I snapped, because no one sniped at my sister but me, and Mark echoed with a stern "Chill, dude."
Phin was unperturbed. "Those books were highly unrealistic. Do you have any idea how much brain damage a person would have if she were hit on the head and drugged with chloroform that often? ~ Rosemary Clement-Moore

Distinctively gentle he was, and trustworthy, and of special courtesy. His great physical strength was never used in combat, men remembered, except when needed for the defence of the weak. In the last hours, when his mind went roving over the past, he said to someone who stoody by: 'I thank god that in all my life I never struck a man in anger...Ishould have killed my antagonist and then his blood, at this awful moment, would have lain heavily on my soul....Idie at peace with all mankind.' (Referring to Augustine Washington, husband of Mary Ball and father of George Washington.) ~ Nancy Byrd Turner

Arizona is a red state, and we're going to keep it red. ~ Jan Brewer

Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual. ~ Nancy Gibbs