Dadeschools Quotes & Sayings

Robert Farris Thompson, America's most prominent historian of African art, says that funky is derived from the Ki-Kongo lu-fuki, meaning "positive sweat" of the sort you get from dancing or having sex, but not working. One's mojo, which has to be "working" to attract a lover, is Ki-Kongo for "soul." Boogie comes from mbugi, meaning "devilishly good." And both jazz and jism likely derive from dinza, the Ki-Kongo word for "to ejaculate. — Christopher Ryan

Now people can generally be classified into two groups: the mediocre realists and the mediocre dreamers. — Haruki Murakami

During the session of the Supreme Court, in the village of -, about three weeks ago, when a number of people were collected in the principal street of the village, I observed a young man riding up and down the street, as I supposed, in a violent passion. — Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

Writing over a century ago, the historian Frederick Jackson Turner made the essential point. "Not the Constitution, but free land and an abundance of natural resources open to a fit people," he wrote, made American democracy possible.4 A half century later, the historian David Potter discovered a similar symbiosis between affluence and liberty. "A politics of abundance," he claimed, had created the American way of life, "a politics which smiled both on those who valued abundance as a means to safeguard freedom and those who valued freedom as an aid in securing abundance."5 William Appleman Williams, another historian, found an even tighter correlation. For Americans, he observed, "abundance was freedom and freedom was abundance."6 — Andrew J. Bacevich

The truth is that perhaps everything has a price, but certainly everyone has to pay more price only for their lies. — Anuj

Learn from my miseries, and do not seek to increase your own. — Mary Shelley

Most of what has lived on Earth has left behind no record at all. — Bill Bryson

My heart shifted a little in my chest; it seemed to swell and beat against my bones until I couldn't hear. — Ann Aguirre

People say, "Why do you call your kids up, why do you worry like that?" And I say, "I was raised like that." My grandmother looked at my father with the same eyes when he was sixty and she was eighty-five. — Grace Paley

Everything to me is about team football, and if we keep winning Super Bowl trophies, I'll be fine. — Justin Tuck

With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note. — Aristotle.

But are you sure you are not in the position of those conquerors whose triumphs have cost them too dear? — Charlotte Bronte