Inspiring Growing Up Quotes for Every Stage of Life - page 106

Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.
Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.
Henry VIII had so many wives because his dynastic sense was very strong whenever he saw a maid of honour.
 Will Cuppy
Accepting people as they are has the miraculous effect of helping them improve.  Acceptance doesn't prohibit growth; rather, it fosters it.
The undead did not love, but they remembered love with a savage loyalty.
 Kim Harrison
If you're on stage and you're more concerned about your dress, and then you think that the public is accessory, you got nothing to do there.
 Angelique Kidjo
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
There have been times I almost got a persecution complex. I felt like people wouldn't let me grow up. They always saw me as a smiling kid or goofy teenager, no matter how much I'd changed.
 Ricky Schroder
Perhaps the final hour is come I have left no testament Only a pen, for my mother I am no hero in an age without heroes I just want to be a man.
 Bei Dao
Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done.
 Michelle Shocked
Sane is rich and powerful. Insane is wrong and poor and weak. The rich are free, the poor are put in cages. Res Ipsa Loquitur, amen. Mahalo.
Sane is rich and powerful. Insane is wrong and poor and weak. The rich are free, the poor are put in cages. Res Ipsa Loquitur, amen. Mahalo.
Carry on. Things will work out. If you keep trying and praying and working, things will work out. They always do. If you want to die at an early age, dwell on the negative. Accentuate the positive, and you’ll be around for a while.
I Freestyle my Destiny, It's not written in Pages.
 Immortal Technique
Music was my oxygen. It's what saved me from being a really lonely and scared teenager.
 Corey Hart
How amazing that the language of a few thousand savages living on a fog-encrusted island in the North Sea should become the language of the world.
 Norman St John-Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley
The world won't end with a bang or a whimper. It'll end with the death screams of a thousand demons and a defiant, carefree, savage, wolfen howl.
 Darren Shan
You should not suffer the past. You should be able to wear it like a loose garment, take it off and let it drop.
 Eva Jessye
I was always enamored with TV shows and movies. But you didn't grow up in my town and turn into an actor.
 Scott Wolf
I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
 William Faulkner
I really just wanted to write about three brothers. When you do that, though, it gives you this wonderful opportunity to tie together different social milieus, because siblings usually move into different worlds as they grow up.
I really just wanted to write about three brothers. When you do that, though, it gives you this wonderful opportunity to tie together different social milieus, because siblings usually move into different worlds as they grow up.
 Daniel Kehlmann
It's better to ask the right questions than accept the status quo
 Phil Harding