Brathwaite Name Quotes & Sayings

At the risk, then, of being shunned by some of my gloomier peers, I venture to tell you that writers work like demons, suffer greatly, and are also happy, in unmistakable ways, some of the time. If we had no knowledge of happiness, our novels wouldn't sufficiently resemble real life. Some of us are even made a little bit happy, on occasion, by the writing process itself. I mean, really, if there wasn't some sort of enjoyment to be derived, would any of us keep doing it? — Michael Cunningham

God bless America. Let's try to save some of it. — Edward Abbey

Even when I haven't had money, I found money to travel. It's a luxury that's a kind of necessity, I think. — Beth Orton

Basketball is what got me out of the projects. It got my momma the house she never had, the car she never had. Nobody is going to get the best of me. You might score more points than me, but you're going to know you were in a dogfight. — Kenyon Martin

To build children you must first be built yourself. Otherwise, you'll seek children out of animal needs, or loneliness, or to patch the holes in yourself. Your task as a parent is to produce not another self, another Josef, but something higher. It's to produce a creator. — Irvin D. Yalom

She
was afraid of getting too close to anyone. To her, closeness represented
a loss rather than a gain. — Mitsuyo Kakuta

I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war. — Barney Ross

You change the world by changing your thought. You change the thought by changing your heart. — Debasish Mridha

No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant

The words of the reckless pierce like swords, but the tongue of the wise brings healing. (Prov. 12:18 NIV) — Scotty Smith

Like sand on the beach, the brain bears the footprints of the decisions we have made, the skills we have learned, the actions we have taken. — Sharon Begley