Best Our Stories Quotations
116 Our Stories quotes by 94 unique authors
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When we submit our lives to what we read in scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories…
— Eugene H. Peterson
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My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will…
— Frederick Buechner
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A few days after we came home from the hospital, I sent a letter to a friend, including a photo of my son and some…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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Where do you come from?"...This is the number one most-asked question in all of South Carolina. We want to know if you are one of…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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...What is the use of beauty? i have lived my life surrounded by painters, and still I do not know the answer. But i suspect,…
— Gregory Maguire
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What are we but our stories?
— James Patterson
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I'm sorry to burden you,' she said. She felt like a crybaby. 'What can we do with our stories,' he said, 'but tell them?
— Sena Jeter Naslund
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But when we set out to understand somebody’s inside? Is that a trip that ever ends? Is the soul a place of facts? Or are…
— Pascal Mercier
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Her little shoulders drove me mad; I hugged her and hugged her. And she loved it. 'I love love,' she said, closing her eyes. I…
— Jack Kerouac
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So I found myself telling my own stories. It was strange: as I did it I realised how much we get shaped by our stories.…
— John Marsden
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We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.
— Chris Cleave
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So we face our final hours...and all that was once certain has become uncertain. Except for defeat. That, as always, is the end of all…
— Tad Williams
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Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
— Salman Rushdie
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For our stories are not yet finished, and perhaps will never be.
— Piers Anthony
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So much of me is made of what I learned from you; you'll be with me like a handprint on my heart and now whatever…
— Stephen Schwartz
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I don't think everyone wants to create the great American novel, but we all have a dream of telling our stories-of realizing what we think,…
— Natalie Goldberg
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Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories
— Ben Okri
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Death steals everything except our stories.
— Jim Harrison
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Stories are people. I'm a story, you're a story...your father is a story. Our stories go in every direction, but sometimes, if we're lucky, our…
— Jess Walter
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Our stories remind us how precious and fragile life can be-- and that we must risk our hearts everyday to know happiness.
— Luanne Rice
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Once upon a time, each of us was somebody's kid. Everyone had a father, even if he never provided anything more than his seed. Everyone…
— Brian K. Vaughan
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Our stories are what we have,” Our Good Mother says. “Our stories preserve us. we give them to one another. Our stories have value. Do…
— Julianna Baggott
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We have such a brief opportunity to pass on to our children our love for this Earth, and to tell our stories. These are the…
— Richard Louv
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Our stories are not meant for everyone. Hearing them is a privilege, and we should always ask ourselves this before we share: "Who has earned…
— Brené Brown
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Actors sure have stories. We always have stories. At the end of our careers, all we have to take with us is our stories, and…
— Michael Eklund
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94 authors contributed a total of 116 Our Stories Quotes, led by these top contributors: