Cutwater Quotes & Sayings

Everyone joins a band in this life. One way or another, the band breaks up. — Mitch Albom

but it took a little Hootie and three beers to throw me some courage. — Tarryn Fisher

There are two things I don't care how smart you are, you will never understand. One is an alienist's testimony, and the other is a railroad timetable. — Will Rogers

The sun was getting up, and mortal white he looked about the cutwater. But, there he was, and the six all dead - dead and buried. — Robert Louis Stevenson

And I saw that what divided me from the world was not anything intrinsic to us but the actual injury done by people intent on naming us, intent on believing that what they have named us matters more than anything we could ever actually do. In America, the injury is not in being born with darker skin, with fuller lips, with a broader nose, but in everything that happens after. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Let us be guardians, not gardeners — Adolph Murie

Constantly working outward, putting system after system inside the known universe, they were the bright hungry wave of mankind reaching out to gather in the stars. — Algis Budrys

I had taken up my quill to begin writing many times before now, but I always abandoned it quickly: each time I was overcome with fear. Yes, may God forgive me, but the letters of the alphabet frighten me terribly. They are sly, shameless demons - and dangerous! You open the inkwell, release them: they run off - and how will you ever get control of them again! They come to life, join, separate, ignore your commands, arrange themselves as they like on the paper - black, with tails and horns. You scream at them and implore them in vain: they do as they please. Prancing, pairing up shamelessly before you, they deceitfully expose what you did not wish to reveal, and they refuse to give voice to what is struggling, deep within your bowels, to come forth and speak to mankind. — Nikos Kazantzakis

Our culture is getting better and better at encouraging women to speak, but it's not doing enough to listen to what they say when they do. — Lilit Marcus

I am Prince Horace!"
"And I'm the Grand Turnip of China!" cutwater snickered.
"Dim-witted villains!" shouted the Prince. "I command you to turn us loose. — Sid Fleischman

In the days of the frost seek an minor sun. — Loren Eiseley

Mine is the art of inspiring people to turn themselves inside out, transform their suffering into art, their art into awareness and their awareness into action — Gabrielle Roth