Awodele Omilamis Parent Quotes & Sayings

Then you must tell them that love isn't something like a grindstone that's the same thing everywhere and do the same thing to everything it touches. Love is like the sea. It is a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and its different with every shore. (written properly and not in slang) — Zora Neale Hurston

I think that when we're talking about youth violence, we're talking about kids who don't have opportunities, so they're engaged in a certain degree of lawlessness, because we as a society have failed them. — Matt Gonzalez

Suddenly this defeat.
This rain.
The blues gone gray
And the browns gone gray
And yellow
A terrible amber.
In the cold streets
Your warm body.
In whatever room
Your warm body.
Among all the people
Your absence
The people who are always
Not you.


I have been easy with trees
Too long.
Too familiar with mountains.
Joy has been a habit.
Now
Suddenly
This rain. — Jack Gilbert

Just one touch will change your life for all eternity. — David M. Edwards

This I've learned in life: If you don't believe in Santa Claus, he can't bring you any presents. — Siri Mitchell

How to sustain the miracle
Of being, that like a muted bell,
Or like some ocean-breathing shell,
Quivers, intense and still? — Babette Deutsch

He read while he walked. He read while he ate. The other librarians suspected he somehow read while he slept, or perhaps didn't sleep at all. — Laini Taylor

I eat very clean foods, healthy foods and drink a lot of water. — Jonathan Horton

Polyface is proof that people can sometimes do more for the health of a place by cultivating it rather than by leaving it alone. — Michael Pollan

Be smart, but never show it. — Louis B. Mayer