Abstractos Modernos Quotes & Sayings

Practically anything you read or hear about racism, sexism, and homophobia is cant. — John Derbyshire

O cricket from your cherry cry
No one would ever guess
How quickly you must die. — Matsuo Basho

We teach aspirational ethics. What I teach my students is, You're born heroic. I go into these animal studies, and heroism is actually in our nature. What you have to do is make sure that the system doesn't change you, that our educational system doesn't teach you to be willfully blind and to forget your aspirations, because that's the default position. — Marc Edwards

To say I have frizzy hair is an understatement. It is kinky, more pubic than cranial, and whitish blond, breaking off easily, like hay. — Kathryn Stockett

I'm not a pundit. I'm not an analyst. I don't want to participate in the existing debate that's going on about whether or not you should be able to have as many guns as you want to have or that guns are even the problem. — Michael Moore

And here is something that I think is important - your religion didn't come from the land. It could be carried around with you. You couldn't understand what it meant to us to have our religion in the land. Your religion was in a cup and a piece of bread, and that could be carried in a box. Your priests could make it sacred anywhere. You couldn't understand that what was sacred for us was where we were, because that is where the sacred things had happened and where the spirits talked to us. — Kent Nerburn

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way. — Ernest Hemingway,

Heaven to me's a fair blue stretch of sky, Earth's jest a dusty road. — John Masefield

Looks like sunsets are growing on you. — Gretchen Powell

The sad truth is, if you push hard enough, and if you're so stubborn that you must have things your way, God will sometimes allow you to undertake a project without His blessing or at the wrong time. The problem with that, of course, is when you start something in your own strength and in your own timing, you're going to have to finish it and maintain it in your own strength. — Joel Osteen

Now that it's officially summer, here's my advice to parents who want to continue teaching their kids during the next two months and learn something themselves: visit Civil War battlefields. — Marvin Olasky

He's like a cookie; rough around the edges, soft on the inside. He's such a surprising guy. — Delia Delaney