Inspiring Growing Up Quotes for Every Stage of Life - page 104

The burned hand teaches best.
The burned hand teaches best.
You can know everything that the books have to say, but ultimately it boils down to whether we do the inner work of devotion and surrender, whether we can put aside our own agendas and allow the spirit to move through us.
Indigenous languages are Canada's national treasures. They are our identity. We simply have to put greater effort into rejuvenating and revitalizing them. It is key to moving forward.
 Perry Bellegarde
My mother gave me a ukulele at age eight, and I sang the popular tunes of the day.
 Pete Seeger
I remember New York in the '80s as a place with vacant lots that would eventually give over to nature. Weeds would grow up, squirrels would move in. That entropy is gone now. It's too expensive to let a vacant lot go natural.
I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don't feel the passage of time as much.
 Amy Grant
Where now is Britain? . Even as the savage sits upon the stone That marks were stood her capitols, and hears The bittern booming in the weeds, he shrinks From the dismaying solitude.
 Henry Kirke White
. . . I hope that when you're my age, you'll be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom, we lived lives that were a statement, not an apology.
I have never been able to sleep with anyone. I require a full-size bed so that I can lie in the middle of it and extend my arms spreadeagle on both sides without being obstructed.
Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.
Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.
 James Joyce
A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.
 William Makepeace Thackeray
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
 Janis Joplin
The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.
'Savage' describes a cultural condition, not a degree of intelligence.
The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements, as well as one's deepest failures is a definite symptom of maturity.
 Paul Tillich
The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.
 Juan Goytisolo
I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language.
 Dan Fogelberg
The average income in France is $1,000 a month, and you can't live decently on that.
 Jean-Luc Godard
Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence, in retrospect, seems inconceivable when the history of that age is written.
Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence, in retrospect, seems inconceivable when the history of that age is written.
 Dan Simmons
The average performer stops when they face fear. Iconic producer accelerates once they get frightened.