Melissa Leo Quotes

But which is the stone that supports the bridge?

Edson is the person that supports Pele. Edson is the base. Pele just comes and adds the face.

Roots can live without branches, although truncated; branches cannot live without roots.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

I was on the abutment.

A drummer is usually like the backbone.

Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me.

Without stones there is no arch.

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves.

You can have some stable things in life, and so long as you're not away from those things for too long, they can help keep you grounded.

Four legs on a chair, to me, represent a strong foundation and always knowing where I come from.

The family is the foundation of everything.

My mom was the rock of our family.

The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base.

The most solid stone in the structure is the lowest one in the foundation.

Families are the bedrock of our society.

Sometimes you need an anchor, whatever it might be. You need a space to connect. So often you get into a way of doing things.

The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.

I'm a woman and I'm a backbone...everybody needs one.

he was figuratively following along beside her as she walked the fence, ready to catch her if she should fall.

I see a few hands stretching out to me at the edge of the net, so I grabbed the first one I could reach and pull myself across. I roll off, and would have fallen face-first onto a wood floor if he had not caught me. "He" is the young man attached to the hand I grabbed. He has a spare upper lip and a full lower lip. His eyes are so deep-set that his eyelashes touch the skin under his eyebrows, and they are dark blue, a dreaming, sleeping, waiting color.

..."Good, because I need your help." "Help is my middle name." I was pretty sure she'd already told me bad was her middle name, but I kept my opinion to myself.

You are the one. Solid the spaces lean on, envious. You are the baby in the barn.