Lesson Quote by Jonathan L. Howard

“Usually he didn’t bother the gods, and he hoped the gods wouldn’t bother him. Life was quite complicated enough.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Listen, gods die when they are forgotten. People too. But the land's still here. The good places, and the bad. The land isn't going…

— Neil Gaiman

“as if by behaving modestly and discreetly they could make the fire stay up on the mountain and die there, like an unwanted god.”

— Ross Macdonald

“I CANNOT ALLOW THIS CITY TO EXIST, Zeus rumbled. I MUST MAKE YOU AN EXAMPLE SO THAT THIS NEVER HAPPENS AGAIN. LIGHTNING INCOMING IN…

— Rick Riordan

“The point of the story is they built the city anyway, you know? You work with what you have. they had this shit river,…

— John Green

“By the end of my last class, I’ve convinced myself that Lake doesn’t need to know.”

— Colleen Hoover

“I was attached to this city by the god—though it seems a ridiculous thing to say—as upon a great and noble horse which was…

— Socrates

“...it occurred to me that perhaps in this city the crowd was essential to the individual; without it, he had nothing against which to…

— Don DeLillo

“Learn to be strong in the midst of the storm, and ask the Mighty God to help you get to the shore.”

— Gift Gugu Mona

“Troubles teaches us to trust in the Divine Being.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“You have to be very strong to live close to God or a mountain, or you'll turn a little mad.”

— Rumer Godden

“Look at me. This is nobility in a man: to bear what falls from the gods and not say No.”

— Anne Carson