Durrwachter Family Tree Quotes & Sayings

Who are they to judge us, simply because our hair is long? — Marvin Gaye

My remoteness from women's affairs could be seen from my surprise when I heard that needles had holes in them. — Buwei Yang Chao

Not having anything around to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life itself, and that can lead you to take risks. — Michel Houellebecq

Wherever Germany extends her sway, she ruins culture. — Friedrich Nietzsche

There is nothing like a start, and being born, however pessimistic one may become in later years, is undeniably a start. — William McFee

The Buddhist, who thanks no man, who says "Do not flatter your benefactors," but who, in his conviction that every good deed can by no possibility escape its reward, will not deceive the benefactor by pretending that he has done more than he should, is a Transcendentalist. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't have no scarves. — Ken Oder

Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again. — Delmore Schwartz

In my opinion, the difference between the crusaders and us was a matter of degree. Europe's medieval Catholics claimed their goal was to save Muslims from purgatory; we claimed that we wanted to help the Saudis modernize. — John Perkins

I think white people like to tell Asian people how they should feel about race because they're too scared to tell black people. — Margaret Cho

Teach a child arithmetic," he said at last, "and he can use it to
cheat with, can't he? Teach a man the laws and forces of the
universe, and he can turn them against his teacher, can't he?
Give a child a box of matches, and there will always be some one
to show him how to set fire to a house. Teach me spiritual knowledge,
and for every one desire to use it rightly I shall have a thousand
impulses to do the wrong thing. Persistence in thinking the wrong
thing makes a man a fool if he is untaught and a dugpa if he knows
too much. Do you think you know enough to be a dugpa? — Talbot Mundy

It's not hard for a city like New York to create a $1.25 million fund. It's not hard for foundations to create funds that invest in diverse founders. — Kathryn Finney