Flower Growing Out Of Concrete Quotes & Sayings

I am like a gray thing, he thought. Bustling along with the currents of air that tumble me, that roll me, like a gray puffball, on and on. — Philip K. Dick

Hearing the faraway sounds of children at recess makes me understand that I am no longer life's main character. — Alec Sulkin

You will notice that the Occupy Wall Street crowds - and the progressives who support them - focus on bringing the wealthy down to earth rather than lifting the 99 percent. They have a nearly religious belief that too much wealth is fundamentally immoral and unhealthy for society. — David Harsanyi

Walk down any sidewalk in any city and eventually you'll find a flower growing out of a crack in the concrete, tenaciously grasping for life, barely enough earth for it to clench hold of. This little flower has seeded, sprouted, and blossomed, despite thousands of feet walking over and around it every day. This flower is a survivor, thriving better than if it were in my Aunt Tilda's fucking backyard garden with her fussing over it day and night and giving it all the goddamned care she thought it needed. Yeah, eventually, some careless asshole's gonna trample and kill that flower, but another one's gonna replace it. [...] I'll always believe in you, Raeburn. You just have to find another crack in the sidewalk and blossom. Don't be another Kurt Cobain. Don't give up. People need you. — Pete Conrad

Now if the study of the Scriptures be necessary to our happiness at any time in our life, the sooner we begin to read them, the more we shall be attached to them ... — Benjamin Rush

Hard times prepare us for hopeful future. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There is now a widespread tendency to argue that one can only defend democracy by totalitarian methods. If one loves democracy, the argument runs, one must crush its enemies by no matter what means. — George Orwell

I wanna be able to stand on the stage and hold out the mic and people sing all the lyrics to my song. — Sevyn Streeter

Things are so much global and Americanised. — John Malkovich

It's just that sometimes you love a kid just because they need it. Not because they deserve it, not because you really like them ... just because they need love. — Kristan Higgins