Degler Out Of Our Past Quotes & Sayings

For I had reached a point in my life when I came to view words differently. A closer look at language could reveal the secret of life. — Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

Chirag: Rowley, do you think I exist?
Rowley: Nope! I can't even hear you or see you! — Jeff Kinney

I can't just decide myself what's being built. Someone decides what they want, then I work for them. — Frank Gehry

Carl Degler says (Out of Our Past): "No new social class came to power through the door of the American revolution. The men who engineered the revolt were largely members of the colonial ruling class." George Washington was the richest man in America. John Hancock was a prosperous Boston merchant. Benjamin Franklin was a wealthy printer. And so on. On the other hand, town mechanics, laborers, and seamen, as well as small farmers, were swept into "the people" by the rhetoric of the Revolution, by the camaraderie of military service, by the distribution of some land. Thus was created a substantial body of support, a national consensus, something that, even with the exclusion of ignored and oppressed people, could be called "America. — Howard Zinn

Real life is not a love story. It's a series of tough decisions, disappointments and compromise. It ain't glamorous or fluffy, and it doesn't always have a happy ending. We live. And we learn. And sometimes that's the best we can hope for. — Joanne Phillips

Of all African animals, the elephant is the most difficult for man to live with, yet its passing - if this must come - seems the most tragic of all. I can watch elephants (and elephants alone) for hours at a time, for sooner or later the elephant will do something very strange such as mow grass with its toenails or draw the tusks from the rotted carcass of another elephant and carry them off into the bush. There is mystery behind that masked gray visage, and ancient life force, delicate and mighty, awesome and enchanted, commanding the silence ordinarily reserved for mountain peaks, great fires, and the sea. — Peter Matthiessen

I made the grandkids laugh. John Madden finally liked me! — Frank Caliendo

I feel that every human being is beautiful, and I think that each one of us needs to realize how beautiful we really are, I struggle with that everyday. — Randy Fenoli

There are times when Pride must transform into Vanity in order to reach the astray echo of the reflection of self. — Lionel Suggs

We're only certain ("certain only"?) about what we don't understand. — David Shields

A monster lies in wait in me,
A stew of wounds and misery,
But fiercer still in life and limb,
The me that lies in wait in him. — Clive Barker

When you invest in people and lift them toward their potential, they will love you for it. — Jim Rohn

Our Savior was a suffering Savior. He went before us into the uncharted land of agony and death. He went where no man is called to go. His Father gave Him a cup to drink that will never touch our lips. God will not ask us to endure anything comparable to the distress Christ took on Himself. 'Wherever God calls us to go, whatever He summons us to endure, will fall far short of what Jesus experienced. — R.C. Sproul

I look at the deejay thing as a tier thing. If I'm not going to compete on that level, I'm just going to do it as a hobby. — Talib Kweli

Bitterness can get you pretty far in life. But love always takes you farther, — Mary Jane Hathaway