Blokey Paint Quotes & Sayings

We do have some strong traditions of community in the United States, but it's interesting to me that our traditionally patriotic imagery in this country celebrates the individual, the solo flier, independence. We celebrate Independence Day; we don't celebrate We Desperately Rely on Others Day. Oh, I guess that's Mother's Day [laughter]. It does strike me that our great American mythology tends to celebrate separate achievement and separateness, when in fact nobody does anything alone. — Barbara Kingsolver

You haunt me. You alone. You're my fire. I'm your air. Nathaniel to Amelia — Saundra Mitchell

I have always laid it down as a maxim -and found it justified by experience -that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex -but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other. — Lord Byron

Yaicha runs.
He sits down, tired,
and says to mom,
"I'm sorry you had to see that."
Inevitable that he does it.
But he doesn't really want
a witness. — Thalia Chaltas

Thinkers do not accept the inevitable; they turn their efforts toward changing it. — Paramahansa Yogananda

My mom was born poor, raised poor, and was going to die poor. — Kenny Troutt

Why not make cheerfulness, outrageousness, playfulness a new priority for yourself? Make feeling good your expectation. You don't have to have a reason to feel good - you're alive; you can feel good for no reason at all! — Anthony Robbins

A man with an experience of God is never at the mercy of a man with an argument. — Leonard Ravenhill