Bannasch Institute Quotes & Sayings

With the Wit, one is aware of all the life that surrounds one. It was not just the warmth of the mare nearby that I sensed. I knew the scintillant forms of the myriad insects that populated the grasses, and felt even the shadowy life force of the great oak that lifted its limbs between the moon and me. Just up the hillside, a rabbit crouched motionless in the summer grasses. I felt its indistinct presence, not as a piece of life located in a certain place, but as one sometimes hears a single voice's note within a market's roar. But above all, I felt a physical kinship with all that lived in the world. I had a right to be here. I was as much a part of this summer night as the insects or the water purling past my feet. I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world, no more, but certainly no less than the rabbit."
p. 129 — Robin Hobb

"What do I want?" is your question. And what you want is always changing with the flow. So go with the flow. — Leonard Jacobson

Social grace, inner discipline and joy. These are the birthright of the human being who has been allowed to develop essential human qualities. — Maria Montessori

When we went in the late 1990s, Nigeria was still in a dictatorship. So we didn't go with a mission. It started really with a sort of blankness and open-endedness. — Rem Koolhaas

I loved cowboy movies when I was a kid. When I was five years old, I was already wearing a cowboy hat and suit. When I grew up, I knew John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Kirk Douglas and so on. — Jackie Chan

One big contribution my father [Stephen Hawking] has made is to show that having a disability does not bar you from leading a full and eventful life. — Stephen Hawking

With 'Acid Rap,' I allowed myself to be really open-minded and free with who I allowed into my musical space. I wanted to make a cohesive product, but I also just want to make a bunch of dope songs inspired by whatever sounds I liked. — Chance The Rapper

Michael took a cloth and dried her hair. When he finished, he pulled her close and cradled her in his arms. "Flesh of my flesh," he whispered against her hair. "Blood of my blood. — Francine Rivers

I think it's pretty normal that there are a lot of people out there who don't like us. — Gavin Rossdale

The Wolf gave me an eerie smile, all fangs, and his eyes glinted in the shadows. " I will be in this tale one way or another, little prince," he warned.
(The Iron Knight) — Julie Kagawa

Dear Father, hear and bless thy beasts and singing birds, and guard with tenderness small things that have no words. — Margaret Wise Brown

They had forgotten their own names, the voices of their mothers, the faces of their fathers. — Joe Hill

An aching head and trembling limbs, which are the inevitable effects of drinking, disincline the hands from work. — George Washington