Dowries Quotes & Sayings

The point they (Lissitzky, Rodchenko, Tatlin, Gabo , the neo-Plasticists, and so on) all had in common was to be inside and outside at the same time ... For me, to be inside and outside is to be in an unheated studio with broken windows in the winter, or taking a nap on somebody's porch in the summer. — Willem De Kooning

I got the first thing I auditioned for - a guest role on two episodes on 'All Saints,' and I don't think I had ever been that excited. — Mia Wasikowska

Yet when books have been read and reread, it boils down to the horse, his human companion, and what goes on between them. — Walter Farley

The science of epigenetics has also made it clear that there are two mechanisms by which organisms pass on hereditary information. Those two mechanisms provide a way for scientists to study both the contribution of nature (genes) and the contribution of nurture (epigenetic mechanisms) in human behavior. If you only focus on the blueprints, as scientists have been doing for decades, the influence of the environment is impossible to fathom. (Dennis 2003; Chakravarti and Little 2003) — Bruce H. Lipton

When my daughter was born, I said: 'I feel like I know what I've been waiting my whole life to be.' — Corey Johnson

I'm convinced that promoting sport is an intelligent way of educating our children. — Shakira

Time was a river, not a log to be sawed into lengths. — Margaret A. Robinson

Everything that seemingly happens externally is occurring in order to trigger something within us, to expand us and take us back to who we truly are. — Anita Moorjani

We have made great strides, but somehow we've got to create a climate so that everybody can do well, not just some. — Alveda King

We succeeded to take our last steps to freedom in conditions of relative peace. We commit ourselves to the construction of a complete, just and lasting peace. We have triumphed in the effort to implant hope in the breasts of the millions of our people. — Nelson Mandela

My eldest daughter, Suldana, is in love with another woman. She is eighteen and she spends her days working at our kiosk selling milk and eggs, and at night she sneaks out and goes down to the beach to see her lover. She crawls back into bed at dawn, smelling of sea and salt and perfume. Suldana is beautiful and she wraps this beauty around herself like a shawl of stars. When she smiles her dimples deepen and you can't help but be charmed. When she walks down the street men stare and whistle and ache. But they cannot have her. Every day marriage proposals arrive with offers of high dowries but I wave them away. We never talk about these things like mothers and daughters should; but I respect her privacy and I allow her to live. — Diriye Osman

Were it only to learn benevolence to humankind, we should be merciful to other creatures. — Plutarch

Just the other day someone threw a bra duct-taped to a tennis ball. I just stood there, playing guitar, thinking how this was totally premeditated. Some girl sat around inventing a way to get her bra onstage from 40 rows back. — Dave Grohl