16 June 1976 Youth Day Famous Quotes & Sayings

Apparently humans share fifty per cent of their DNA with bananas. My father is a constant reminder of that. — Holly Smale

If you are truly convinced that there is some solution to all human problems, that one can conceive an ideal society which men can reach if only they do what is necessary to attain it, then you and your followers must believe that no price can be too high to pay in order to open the gates of such a paradise. Only the stupid and malevolent will resist once certain simple truths are put to them. Those who resist must be persuaded; if they cannot be persuaded, laws must be passed to restrain them; if that does not work, then coercion, if need be violence, will inevitably have to be used - if necessary, terror, slaughter. — Isaiah Berlin

We watched each other evolve into parents, with all the fear, rage and confusion evolution can involve. Our eight-year-old is the incarnation of our union; we are forever fused by her blood. My old take on romance seemed vaguely ludicrous, as affected as a pair of spats. I no longer saw the point in 'getting back to normal', that pantomime of pretending nothing had changed; I wanted to evolve from sexual posturing into a deeper consciousness, that of love. — Antonella Gambotto-Burke

Fame in a world like this is worthless. — Marcus Aurelius

You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball. — Cal Ripken Jr.

For a week, almost without speaking,
they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous
reflection of luminous insects, and their lungs were overwhelmed by a suffocating smell of blood. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The bigger the budget, the more trouble there is. — John Cameron Mitchell

Love a little more each day — Madison

my boy?
he is even
better than
books.
-fiction has nothing on you. — Amanda Lovelace

I've seen neighborhoods that I would have never driven though because I'm riding my bike, because I'm looking for side roads, looking for maybe more hills or less hills depending if I'm exercising or not. You see a lot more, and you get the flow of a city a lot more. — Stone Gossard

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. — Norman Douglas

I'll go to see movies, but I also love being at home on my couch and pausing every 10 minutes to pee. — Tim Heidecker

It is a time for quietness and prayer. Death is present with us every day of our lives, it behooves us to take note of its nearness, not as a threat, but as our common experience on the way to grace. There is no more to be said. It is better to accept the will of God, and be silent. — Ellis Peters

When I was 14, I thought I looked terrible. I wore these typical Slavic shoes with metal bottoms so you could always hear me coming and this really ugly princess skirt and blouse with the top button closed. I had a boy haircut, a baby face covered with pimples, and a really big nose. — Marina Abramovic

The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers. — Eric Hoffer