Dontez Ford Quotes & Sayings

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

The hospital, by necessity, may send a man home with one leg less: but it will not (in a creative rapture) send him home with one leg extra. — G.K. Chesterton

If you want to understand a difficult or trying person, begin by asking the question: 'What is the wound they are trying to heal?' — Mardy Grothe

The Igbo nation in precolonial times was not quite like any nation most people are familiar with. It did not have the apparatus of centralized government but a conglomeration of hundreds of independent towns and villages each of which shared the running of its affairs among its menfolk according to title, age, occupation, etc.; and its women folk who had domestic responsibilities as well as the management of the scores of four-day and eight-day markets that bound the entire region and its neighbours in a network of daily exchange of goods and news, from far and near. — Chinua Achebe

When you're in a high-stress situation, dynamics between people can change. — Lance Reddick

Oh," said the mother, "that is not a turkey. How well he uses his legs, and how upright he holds himself! He is my own child, and he is not so very ugly after all if you look at him properly. Quack, quack! Come with me now. I will take you into grand society, and introduce you to the farmyard, but you must keep close to me or you may be trodden upon. And, above all, beware of the cat." When they reached the farmyard, — Hans Christian Andersen