Druidesses Quotes & Sayings

My siblings had already instilled the notion of black pride in me. I would have preferred that Mommy were black. Now, as a grown man, I feel privileged to have come from two worlds. My view of the world is not merely that of a black man but that of a black man with something of a Jewish soul. I don't consider myself Jewish, but when I look at Holocaust photographs of Jewish women whose children have been wrenched from them by Nazi soldiers, the women look like my own mother and I think to myself, There but for the grace of God goes my own mother - and by extension, myself. — James McBride

Whatever will be, will be, if and only if you let it be. — Ogwo David Emenike

By honoring the lives of those we admire, we make our own values known. — Steve Jobs

Often in the morning they rode out along the tracks on Easter and took their lunch and once rode as far as the little cemetery halfway to Norka where there was a stand of cottonwood trees with their leaves washing and turning in the wind, and they ate lunch there in the freckled shade of the trees and came back in the late afternoon with the sun sliding down behind them, making a single shadow of them and the horse together, the shadow out in front like a thin dark antic precursor of what they were about to become. — Kent Haruf

I learned to basically pull my own weight, just do my own thing. I spent a lot of time alone and I loved it. It was actually really great because to the present day I love spending time alone. I go bicycling alone, go climbing alone and I just love being with myself and observing myself and learning something. — Sebastian Thrun

With, or despite our scars, we stay alive. — Marilyn Hacker

The passive and overt violence waged against the women and children of the world must end. — Bryant McGill

Every failure can be considered as a tragedy or a chance to learn something. The latter is healthier — Harry Emerson Fosdick

I cannot be a traitor, since I never swore fealty to the English king. — William Wallace

Horses are moody quad-bikes that piss on your boot and cost thousands in vets' fees. — David Mitchell

A disciplined mind invites true joy. — Yongey Mingyur

I am in the night. There is a being who has gone away and carried the heavens with her. Oh! to be laid side by side in the same tomb, hand clasped in hand, and from time to time, in the darkness, to caress a finger gently, that would suffice for my eternity. — Victor Hugo

Computing has gone from something tiny and specialized to something that affects every walk of life. It doesn't make sense anymore to think of it as just one discipline. I expect to see separate departments of user interface, for example, to start emerging at universities. — Nathan Myhrvold

I'm convinced that sending people to Mars is so expensive that if you go once and bring the people back and then go again and bring the people back, we're eventually going to run out of money. But what if we send people the first time and they don't come back? What if they stay there? — Buzz Aldrin