Asness Family Foundation Quotes & Sayings

The giving and receiving is the tricky thing. It's not the gift. It's what the heart says in giving the gift, and from my point of view, one doesn't give or receive - that's a role we have to play. But the gift - it's God's gift. I think that it's better to be souls than roles. — Ram Dass

You can never outrace the sun, he finally understood. No matter where you are in this world, the sun has already set. — Chris Cole

Remember: white men constitute just 31 percent of the American population. There is no situation in which they should be constituting the majority of the room. — Jessica Bennett

Some parents expend great efforts to get their kids into the right nursery school or the right preschool, with the thought that that will set them on the path to success, to competitive success especially. — Michael Sandel

Given my history with my sister, it was inevitable, really, that we would end up wrestling in the mud, beating each other senseless with pieces of foam rubber. — Molly Harper

I think it's so important for young readers to find a book or series that ignites their passion for reading, especially boys, whose interest in reading wanes as they grow older. — Jennifer A. Nielsen

But you don't know what will happen.'
'No. That is our curse. To know that something will happen, and only after it is over, to look back and say, "oh, that is what that meant. If only i'd known". It can break your heart. — Robin Hobb

The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news? — Nathan Myhrvold

How do I have anything normal, when my life's been shredded to bits, turned inside out, painted different colors and reassembled in an order I don't recognise? — Shannon Messenger

So few the grains of happiness measured against all the dark and still the scales balance. — Jane Hirshfield

This chasm makes itself known to us in all kinds of ways. A little girl wanders home, at age seven, after being teased in school and asks her parents, "Are we niggers and what does this mean? — Ta-Nehisi Coates

I read once that we're all just dead stars looking back up to the sky, because everything we're made of, even the hemoglobin in our blood, comes from the moment before a star dies. — Robyn Schneider

The concept of conservation is a far truer sign of civilization than that spoilation of a continent which we once confused with progress. — Peter Matthiessen