Big Quote by Jesmyn Ward Download Open image “We salvage the bones of our lives every day, through small tragedies and big tragedies.” — Jesmyn Ward ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Big Day Every day Small Tragedies
The only thing tragedy gives us is the opportunity to rebuild our life. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Thank God life ends—we'd never survive it. From Big Bang to weary shag, the history of the world. Our flesh is ferocious...our bodies will… — Patrick Marber Copy Share Image
However good we are, however correctly we seek to lead our lives, tragedies do occur. We can blame others, look for justification, imagine how… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Life is a hurricane, and we board up to save what we can and bow low to the earth to crouch in that small… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel it my bounden duty to not only replace displaced bones, but also teach others, so that the physical and spiritual may enjoy… — Daniel D. Palmer Copy Share Image
A tragedy can turn out to be our greatest good if we approach it in ways which we can grow. — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
That larger story in 'Salvage the Bones' is just about survival, and I think that, in the end, there are things about this novel… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I think that voodoo as a spiritual tradition has been demonized for so long in popular culture. I wanted to write against that and… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
There's so much I love about home, but then there's a lot that I can acknowledge that I dislike about home. And acknowledging that… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“The dream of her was the glow of a spent fire on a cold night: warm and welcoming.” — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
The first writer that I think of immediately that I studied with at Michigan is Peter Ho Davies. He was really important to me,… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like so much of what happened in the Delta over the decades since slavery was abolished seems much closer in the Delta,… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“Vines catch my arms, my head; we tear through until we break out into the clearing before the fence, the field, the barn, the… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“Before all the little mean things she told me gathered and gathered and lodged like grit in a skinned knee.” — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
People give the South a bad rap. It's often stereotyped as backwards and close-minded and dogmatic, and all of those things have been true.… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
By the time I wrote my memoir, 'Men We Reaped,' I had been running from writing it for a long time. When the events… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I was the only black girl at a small, private Episcopal school, where my tuition was paid by the… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
She was the murderous mother who cut us to the bone but left us alive, left us naked and bewildered as wrinkled newborn babies,… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Many early-stage entrepreneurs make one simple mistake: Describing this 'big picture' in vague concepts and words. — Sunil Nagaraj Copy Share Image
I always say if you put someone from a small town into a big city for ten years, then when they go back, they'll… — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
My mom had very low expectations for me, and she really had a point. I was a big problem at seventeen. If I had… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I have always been a big meta guy because I think the way journalism is practiced in Washington, and the way everyone sort of… — Mark Leibovich Copy Share Image
It's going to be used in the last days to get people to come against Christ, and that's the issue: they come against the… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why… — Banks Copy Share Image
I turn a lot of stuff down - big, big movies, the kind I wouldn't want to go to the cinema to see. — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
So I concentrated on the rhythmic side of things, and therefore left a lot of holes. I didn't want to use big pad chords… — Midge Ure Copy Share Image
I think a big part of success in football is mental, not physical. How you are inside your head matters more. — Iker Casillas Copy Share Image
I was always attracted most to joining City, and I am pleased to be at such a good club with such a big ambition… — Edin Dzeko Copy Share Image
