159 Quotes by Laurence Overmire

If you can make your ancestors real for yourself, learn their stories and who they were, your life – and death – will take on added meaning. You will see yourself in the Big Picture that includes all human life that has come and gone on the planet.

No matter who our ancestors are, our own personal and monumental task is to become the best person that we can possibly be – someone in whom our own descendants in times to come can take great pride and find inspiration.

Every child comes into this world as a gift to humanity.

I don’t make much of a living, but I do live much of a making.

God made in the image of Man is an imperfect master.

When you trace your genealogy, you find connections to many of the people and events that shaped history. History is not the story of some old irrelevant strangers. No. History is your story. Your family was there – your grandmothers and grandfathers, uncles and aunts, cousins, nephews and nieces. If not for them, you wouldn’t even be here.

Prose pretends to be straightforward in its application to the truth, but truth itself is a dissembler. Poetry, much more honest, knows the deception can’t be overcome.

There is no such thing as failure for an artist, unless failure is the refusal to attempt, the unwillingness to dream.

It takes no genius to destroy. The creators, the givers, the lovers, the healers – these are the heroes who know – the building up is so much more difficult than the tearing down.