Inspiring Growing Up Quotes for Every Stage of Life - page 23
There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.
Growing up, books were my lifeline, and I owe a debt to those writers that can never be repaid. They saved my sanity and gave me a world I could escape to. If I can pay that forward to another person, that's all I ask.
Thinking is not the ability to manipulate language; it’s the ability to manipulate concepts.
Leslie Lamport
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We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.
Sarojini Naidu
Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.
When you live in a lot of places, you can't help but have them become part of you. Technically, I am a Southerner, but I did not grow up in the South. So I'm a Southerner by accident, but a Washingtonian.
Neko Case
I, too, am beginning to feel an immense need to become a savage and create a new world.
August Strindberg
I grew up learning ballet and then I took up contemporary as I got older. I probably thought I was going to be a ballet dancer when I was younger, but at a certain age, I really was more interested in acting.
Elizabeth Debicki
[Michael] Brown's mom, Lesley McSpadden, is the latest African American mother whose tear-streaked face forces the nation to remember the name of yet another unarmed black teenager gunned down under questionable circumstances.
Jonathan Capehart
Age helps one to acquire some of the perspectives necessary to create harmony among apparent contradictions.
Roberto Assagioli
Friendship * * * is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity.
Jean de la Bruyere
Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.
Cass Daley
This is one of the stout-hearted old warriors: he is angry with civilization because he supposes that its aim is to make all goodthings--honors, treasures, beautiful women--accessible even to cowards.
I do not wish to be shut up in a corral. All agency Indians I have seen are worthless. They are neither red warriors nor white farmers. They are neither wolf nor dog.
Sitting Bull
If you don't have enough time to accomplish something, consider the work finished once it's begun.
John Cage
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Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
All businesses need to be young forever. If your customer base ages with you, you're Woolworth's.
Jeff Bezos