5 Quotes & Sayings By Carol Berg

Carol Berg is the author of the popular blog, Laughing at My Feet , where she posts about life, faith, and her passion for writing. She has been featured on Oprah's Super Soul Sunday , the Today Show, the Diane Rehm Show , and numerous other national media outlets. Berg is a frequent guest speaker at conferences and churches across America.

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On my seventh birthday, my father swore, for the first of many times, that I would die facedown in a cesspool. On that same occasion, my mother, with all the accompanying mystery and elevated language appropriate for a prominent diviner, turned her cards, screamed delicately, and proclaimed that my doom was written in water and blood and ice. As for me, from about that time and for twenty years since, I had spat on my middle finger and slapped the rump of every aingerou I noticed, murmuring the sincerest, devoutest prayer that I might prove my parents' predictions wrong. Not so much that I feared the doom itself - doom is just the hind end of living, after all - but to see the two who birthed me confounded. . Carol Berg
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From the instant of our first meeting I judged him so, though it could be said that I was prejudiced. When one is standing naked on a slave-auction block in a wind cold enough to freeze a demon's backside, one is unlikely to have a fair impression of anyone. Carol Berg
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Loyalty never put blood back in a man's veins. Carol Berg
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Writing is communication, and you don't know how you're doing until you put it in front of someone else's eyes. You also learn from critiquing other writers' work. Carol Berg