Endesha Holland Quotes & Sayings

I had never read a book written by an African-American. I didn't know that black people could write books. I didn't know that blacks had done any great things. I was always conscious of my inferiority and I always remembered my place - until the Civil Rights Movement came to the town where I was born and grew up. — Endesha Ida Mae Holland

As prime minister, I was able often to meet people, to try to understand their needs and the country's economic situation - but it wasn't as if I was planning or ever expected to become president, so I wasn't thinking back then of what I would do if I was in this position, I was just trying to understand the problems and challenges. — Thein Sein

The Italians live well. They have problems, like all countries, but they are well-dressed, the women are pretty. — Francois Pinault

A journey may be long or short, but it must start at the very spot one finds oneself. — Jim Stovall

I can't go out and plant a million trees, but I can go out and tell [students] to plant 10 each. Sometimes you need to ask yourself what exactly do you want- a grove or a forest? — Sharad Vivek Sagar

Good things you have to make happen. Bad things happen all by themselves. — Oliver Gaspirtz

So let me be thy choir, and make a moan Upon the midnight hours. — John Keats

Reading brings us unknown friends — Honore De Balzac

There are dead thoughts and there are living thoughts. A dead thought has been compared to a stone which one may plant in the soil. Nothing will come out. A living thought is like a seed. In the process of thinking, an answer without a question is devoid of life. It may enter the mind; it will not penetrate the soul. It may become a part of one's knowledge; it will not come forth as a creative force. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

A BS in any neuroscience without a master's or PhD was a three-legged dog of a degree: pitiable, adorable, and capable of inspiring applause when it did anything for you at all. — Daryl Gregory

There's never been a particular band that I've followed religiously. But I do tend to listen to sadder music. — Freddie Highmore

Tyranny Absolves all faith; and who invades our rights, However his own commence, can never be But an usurper. — Henry Brooke

I want you to walk out of here tonight not loving me more, but loving yourselves more. — Lady Gaga

Everyone wrote our obituary but us and the coaches and the kids who stayed with us. The obit was, 'Vanderbilt will have to leave the Southeastern Conference. All the coaches are leaving, and all the students are transferring.' — Gordon Gee

Quotations can be valuable, like raisins in the rice pudding, for adding iron as well as eye appeal. — Peg Bracken