Assam Flood Quotes & Sayings

The idealized woman becomes property, symbol, and ornament; she is stripped of her essential human qualities. The devalued woman becomes a different kind of object; she is the spittoon in which men release their negative anti-woman feelings. — Bell Hooks

Recovery is the urge, the wrestle, and the resurrection. — Patricia E. Deegan

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Anyway, my faith's what drives me. God and I are sort of best friends, I guess. — Karen Kingsbury

The poet dreams of the classroom

I dreamed
I stood up in class
And I said aloud:

Teacher,
Why is algebra important?

Sit down, he said.

Then I dreamed
I stood up
And I said:

Teacher, I'm weary of the turkeys
That we have to draw every fall.
May I draw a fox instead?

Sit down, he said.

Then I dreamed
I stood up once more and said:

Teacher,
My heart is falling asleep
And it wants to wake up.
It needs to be outside.

Sit down, he said. — Mary Oliver

Nothing was ever created by a human being that was not first created in the imagination through desire and then transformed into reality through concentration. — Napoleon Hill

Women were expected to sit in the pews, receiving messages from men in the pulpit. Their role was to recognize God in their pastor, not to expect or demand that he recognize God in them. — Melissa V. Harris-Perry

I'm enjoying the opportunity that 'Parks And Recreation' affords me to exploit my own soapbox agenda, which is to try to encourage people to make things with their hands. — Nick Offerman

I think the US has the right to have its own national security policy. I think most Americans would agree with that. And therefore clarity on this issue is important and especially if we commit ourselves, explicitly and bindingly, to Israel's security. — Zbigniew Brzezinski

Meaninglessness takes hold because meaninglessness is addictive, — Questlove

A teacher should start from a young person's own present interest, she felt, and lead them into a wider and deeper understanding of the world into which they were going. — Joseph P. Lash

No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple. In certain cultures, an overall symmetry may conceal the complexity of the work at first glance. — Rudolf Arnheim