Chantia Robinson Quotes & Sayings

There wasn't use trying to talk with a girl just because of something she'd said to me in a dream — Ross Raisin

When a tree falls it resounds with a thundering crash; and yet a whole forest grows in silence. — Jocelyn Murray

If more people recognized the difference between friendship and mere attraction, or how love must partake of both to prosper, I expect there'd be more happy people."
"And a lot fewer poems and plays," I said, laughing as I splashed about in the scented water. — Sherwood Smith

If shackling former prisoners with a lifetime of debt and authorizing discrimination against them in employment, housing, education, and public benefits is not enough to send the message that they are not wanted and not even considered full citizens, then stripping voting rights from those labeled criminals surely gets the point across. — Michelle Alexander

I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood. — Natasha Trethewey

Wild animals, like wild places, are invaluable to us precisely because they are not us. They are uncompromisingly different. The paths they follow, the impulses that guide them, are of other orders. The seal's holding gaze, before it flukes to push another tunnel through the sea, the hare's run, the hawk's high gyres : such things are wild. Seeing them, you are made briefly aware of a world at work around and beside our own, a world operating in patterns and purposes that you do not share. These are creatures, you realise that live by voices inaudible to you. — Robert Macfarlane

You have to fight for your marriage, do whatever it takes. The commitment has to be there. And if you don't have a sense of humor, I don't know how anybody makes it. — Kay Robertson

Difference of opinion leads to inquiry, and inquiry to the truth. — Thomas Jefferson

What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women. — Clara Zetkin

Some of my academic friends think I've fallen from a very special grace. — A. Bartlett Giamatti

If you stretch your arm out ... will you reach something? Is this what trust is? This feeling? This feeling of comfort? — Sakura Tsukuba

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair. — Ira Gershwin