Chicagoancestors Quotes & Sayings

If one generation does not see how to absolutely solve things that are wrong today, another generation shall surely come to suffer from the same wrong things tomorrow! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

And blessings on the falling out That all the more endears, When we fall out with those we love And kiss again with tears! — Alfred Lord Tennyson

We also have a responsibility not to let ourselves be judged. We do not have to accept others' evaluations of our worth, nor are we obligated to believe in their superiority. Whichever role we are assigned, we can stop the game by refusing to play our expected part. When someone suggests that our recent behavior has undone our right to exist, a useful question to ask is, "What do you want? What can I do to make the situation better?" This often reduces the Judge's voice to silence, because what the Judge really wants- but cannot admit- is to make you feel bad, not to get the floor clean. When we feel secure in our inherent value, we do not have to argue about our worth as human beings. Instead, we can attempt to solve the problem. — Starhawk

Events do not happen; they are just there, and we come across them. — Arthur Eddington

Doubt is something that should be entertained privately. — Jude Watson

You have to be away a long time, a long way, to miss someone like that, and me, I'd been farther away than anyone ought to be for too long plus six weeks. I kissed her and squeezed her until she yelled for mercy, and when I got to where I realized she was yelling we were clear back to the terrace, the whole length of the apartment away from the door. I guess I was sort of enthusiastic, but as I said ... oh, who can say a thing like that and make any sense? — Theodore Sturgeon

Don't equate your self-worth with how well you do things in life. You aren't what you do. If you are what you do, then when you don't ... you aren't. — Wayne W. Dyer

I think maybe we underestimate the country music audience. — Brandy Clark

My parents weren't around much, but I assumed everybody's family was the same. I didn't know people had mummies and daddies who would give them milk and cookies after school. I just thought everybody lived on Central Park West and they had a nanny to take care of them. — Stephen Sondheim

Everyone wanted to get to someplace better, wherever that was. — Kenneth Eade

I've never thought intelligence was age-related. — Michael De Luca

Even the richest personality is nothing before he has chosen himself, and on the other hand even what one might call the poorest personality is everything when he has chosen himself; for the great thing is not to be this or that but to be oneself, and this everyone can be if he wills it. — Soren Kierkegaard

And that night meant nothing, Sean. — Elle Kennedy