Ascenders Design Quotes & Sayings

A white skin is the greatest blessing that has been enjoyed on American soil. — Mark Emory Elliott

I reverently believe that the maker who made us all makes everything in New England, but the weather. I don't know who makes that, but I think it must be raw apprentices in the weather-clerks factory who experiment and learn how, in New England, for board and clothes, and then are promoted to make weather for countries that require a good article, and will take their custom elsewhere if they don't get it. — Mark Twain

A white college student from a private college goes into a poor neighborhood and volunteers four hours a week and that's considered exemplary. [Whereas] a poor kid who lives in that community and takes care of all the kids in that neighborhood four hours every day is not seen as a volunteer. — Patricia Hill Collins

Be courageous requires not only, on the one hand, a watchful mind; it requires, on the other hand, also, the indispensable strong will to act. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

He who dies with the most toys...dies a child. — James Rozoff

An environment becomes fully visible only when it has been superseded by a new environment; thus we are always one step behind in our view of the world. The present is always invisible because it's environmental and saturates the whole field of attention so overwhelmingly; thus everyone is alive in an earlier day. — Warren Ellis