Ankh Charm Quotes & Sayings

Mother used to say it meant Christopher was a nice name because it was a story about being kind and helpful, but I do not want my name to mean a story about being kind and helpful. I want my name to mean me. — Mark Haddon

I have seen myself lose intolerance, narrowness, bigotry, complacence, pride and a whole bushel-basket of other intellectual vices through my contact with Nature and with men. And when you take weeds out of a garden it gives you room to grow flowers. So, every time I lost a little self-satisfaction, or arrogance, I could plant some broadness or love of my own in its place, and after a while the garden of my mind began to bloom and be fragrant and I found myself better equipped for my work and more useful to others as a consequence. — Luther Burbank

Among the numerous requisites that must concur to complete an author, few are of more importance than an early entrance into the living world. The seed of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public. Argumentation may be taught in colleges, and theories formed in retirement; but the artifice of embellishment and the powers of attraction can be gained only by a general converse. — Samuel Johnson

So much of life is in the smallness of moments ... but they are harder to mark. So we need the grander celebrations and occasions. People like to feel significant — Ally Condie

The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable. — Benito Mussolini

I'm still living in my post-war. — Osamu Tezuka

Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul. — Plato

But you can't give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they're strong enough to run into the woods. — Truman Capote

Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes. — John Locke

The wolf had been trained by the man, or had trained himself unassisted, to divers wolfish arts, which swelled the receipts. "Above all things, do not degenerate into a man," his friend would say to him. Never did the wolf bite: the man did now and then. At least, to bite was the intent of Ursus. He was a misanthrope, and to italicize his misanthropy he had made himself a juggler. To live, also; for the stomach has to be consulted. — Victor Hugo

Complaining or picketing will not solve a problem but understanding will. — Debasish Mridha

And he was more Irish in America than he'd ever been at home. — Rachel Cusk