Columbine Quotes

“Off Spruce, there was a little known trail. A savage gulley wound through acreage of older residential homes that met up with Green Rock Drive. A natural bouquet gust of wind assaulted me. The domestic and native encroached on each other in a battle for dominance at the edges of the cramped path's undergrowth. The tangy scent of wild onion and sagebrush intermingled with the verdant odor of wild geranium, blue flax, columbine and creeping pussytoes. The wild weeds spiced up the encroaching grass turf and the tamed floral honeysuckle vines and lilac bushes.”

“True love is like little roses, sweet, fragrant in small doses.”

“Love knows no barriers, no distance.It makes you dance as if in a trance,And catches you up when you are down.It makes you draw a smile from a frown,And embarks you in a river when you fall, And most of its grace, it embraces us all!”

“This will be my last year, Lord. I have gotten what I can. Thank You.”

“The final portrait is often furthest from the truth.”

“You can't really teach a kid anything: you can only show him the way and motivate him to learn it himself.”

“The goal with hostages is to gradually lower expectations; in nonhostage crises, it's to lower emotions.”

“What good were special talents when there was no one to share them with?”

“One thoughtful Evangelical pastor said he approved of using the massacre for recruitment, as long as it was truly done for God. He bristled at "spiritual headhunters, just racking up another scalp. The Bible was never meant to be a club," he said. "If I'm using it as a weapon, that's really sad.”