Dusenberry Library Quotes & Sayings

Have faith in your abilities. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When you come to Montgomery, you see fifty-nine monuments and memorials, all about the Civil War, all about Confederate leaders and generals. We have lionized these people, and we have romanticized their courage and their commitment and their tenacity, and we have completely eliminated the reality that created the Civil War. — Bryan Stevenson

Ladies and gentlemen, if some of the leading artists in a civilization see a man urinating in another man's mouth and see composition and lighting and do not see their civilization being pissed upon, we are in trouble. — Dennis Prager

Love and honor the world around you, and you experience life in its fullest. There is no "Other." There is simply us. The all of us, the whole of us. The mankind of us. Anything else is a lie. — Cassandra Blizzard

A true poet is one who can appreciate the disciplines and structures of any and all styles of poetry. — David J. Delaney

I always call niggas fools for wanting to learn the hard way. When I'm really the fool for tryna teach 'em. When the blinds leading the blind. You can't reach 'em. If niggas ain't as hungry as you then why feed 'em? Niggas ain't tryna be lead then why lead 'em? Having big problems with your dogs, why breed em? — Joe Budden

Whatever is making you so angry, it's time for you to give it to God and get over it. — Joyce Meyer

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it. — Henry Ford

Love can be founded upon Nature only. — William Shenstone

Then she saw him stop and wipe his brow with his handkerchief. Once, twice. And then once again. But she did not see the grin of relief spread over his face. That she did not see because her eyes had filled with tears. And the geraniums, they were just as sad. In any case, that's how they smelled. — Wolfgang Borchert

God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered. — John Cleese

There is always frustration from people who work in schools that things keep changing but it is an unfortunate truth with the world of work changing as rapidly as it is, we do have to change. — Jim Knight

Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels. They gathered mountains and valleys, rivers and whole horizons, the way a man might now gain tittle to building lots. — John Steinbeck

I'm a trained martial artist. My parents were both martial artists. — Lynn Collins

Mom said when she brought us beachcombing? She told us to always believe in something more. She told us to look at what was right in front of us, and we'd see that even a grain of sand was a miracle. That even a bit of glass was a message, that the universe was full of tricks and clues and signs. — Nancy Thayer