Donnetta Howard Quotes & Sayings

It makes us a thread in a tapestry that has unrolled for centuries before us, and will unroll for centuries after us. We're midway through the loom, that's the present, and what we do casts the thread in a particular direction, and the picture of the tapestry changes accordingly. When we begin to to try to make a picture pleasing to us and to those who come after, then perhaps you can say that we have seized history. — Kim Stanley Robinson

Great. We're all bloody inspired. -Newt — James Dashner

People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs. — Abdolkarim Soroush

Adversity is inevitable. Staying positive is optional. — Maddy Malhotra

That church . . . it reminds me of one in downtown Chicago. Do you remember? That beautiful one with the courtyard near the Drake."
Jeremy took a newspaper from a stack behind him and sat across from me. "I know the one you're talking about, but that church," he gestured out the window, "is older than America."
I sighed. "Of course it is. Did I really just try to compare British and American architecture? How insensitive of me. — Jessica Martinez

I'm not just sleeping with an assassin. I've grown very attached to one. — J.A. Redmerski

It is very easy for you to say what I ought to do, there is nothing to prevent you; but if you had felt how much it hurts to see the grief of a person one loves, how his joy becomes yours, and how difficult it is to say No when you want to say Yes, you would not be surprised at anything; I felt it myself, I felt it very keenly, I do not yet understand it. — Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

Ojiisan says if you want to understand a people, look at their language. The words write the history, not the other way around. — Leza Lowitz

Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all the others, remains indelible and indestructible, the strongest relationship on earth — Theodor Reik

No particular race is the enemy. Ignorance is the enemy. — George Lopez

If you sit down with a person, or a watermelon for that matter, when you're stoned and sing into it, the quality of the hallucination is such that there is a way of thinking about it where you could say, 'This is an acoustical hologram of the interior of their body.'" I don't say that.I just say, "My goodness isn't it strange that I seem to be able to see inside of the watermelon when I'm doing this.' — Terence McKenna

And I say to my heart: rave on. — Mary Oliver

Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next. — Douglas Coupland