Backahill Quotes & Sayings

You can't make me do nothing but die! — Richard Wright

Hard to find a better drug than a song you love. — Benji Madden

Investing in girls can actually move the needle in communities ... and can actually benefit boys, because girls are the mothers of boys. — Soledad O'Brien

The lesser evil is also evil. — Naomi Mitchison

God calls all of his children to the table. We can disagree and even say a lot of hateful things, but what we can't do in good conscience is leave the table. Or demand that someone else not be at the table. — Gene Robinson

My family tree spreads wide as well. I am a great ape, and you are a great ape, and so are chimpanzees and orangutans and bonobos, all of us distant and distrustful cousins.
I know this is troubling.
I too find it hard to believe there is a connection across time and space, linking me to a race of ill-mannered clowns.
Chimps. There's no excuse for them. — Katherine Applegate

Many space psychology experiments these days focus on ways to detect stress or depression in a person who doesn't intend to tell you about it. — Mary Roach

Jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down. Over — Ray Bradbury

Our potential is one thing. What we do with it is quite another. — Angela Duckworth

The night before I left my mother, I wrote a letter. — Esmeralda Santiago

Not in depraved things,
but in those well oriented according to nature,
are we to consider what is natural. — Aristotle.

We can't afford to waste time going slow on changing our party so now is not the time to put our foot on the brake. Now is the time to press on the accelerator. — David Cameron

Up telephone poles,
Which rear, half out of leavage
As though they would shriek
Like things smothered by their own
Green, mindless, unkillable ghosts.
In Georgia, the legend says
That you must close your windows
At night to keep it out of the house
The glass is tinged with green, even so,
As the tendrils crawl over the fields.
The night the Kudzu has
Your pasture, you sleep like the dead.
Silence has grown oriental
And you cannot step upon the ground ...
ALL: Kudzu by James Dickey — James Dickey