Fundacionales Quotes & Sayings

Creation is an act of love and it is perpetual. — Simone Weil

We all know that change is hard, but we don't know enough about why it is so hard and what we can do about it. — Robert Kegan

The apparent size and age of the universe suggests that many technologically advanced extra-terrestrial civilizations ought to exist. However, this hypothesis seems inconsistent with the lack of observational evidence to support it." Or "Where is everybody?" The Fermi Paradox Enrico Fermi, Los Alamos, 1950 — Ralph Kern

The people say that the two seemed to be removed from human experience; that they had gone through pain and had come out on the other side. — John Steinbeck

This part of being a man, changing the way we parent, happens only when we want it to. It changes because we are determined for it to change; and the motive for changing often comes out of wanting to be the kind of parent we didn't have. — Augustus Y. Napier

O Lord do not abandon us. — Lailah Gifty Akita

No lace. No lace, Mrs. Bennett, I beg you! — Jane Austen

You can't expect any woman to be a lady if you're not being a gentleman, and vice versa. — N.B. Roberts

I have always made a point in my romances of basing my so-called inventions upon a groundwork of actual fact, and of using in their construction methods and materials which are not entirely without the pale of contemporary engineering skill and knowledge. — Jules Verne

There are nights when I think that Sal Paradise was right / Boys and Girls in America / Have such a sad time together. — Craig Finn

In some parts of the world, students are going to school every day. It's their normal life. But in other part of the world, we are starving for education ... it's like a precious gift. It's like a diamond. — Malala Yousafzai

My twin, Go. I've said this phrase so many times, it has become a reassuring mantra instead of actual words: Mytwingo. We were born in the '70s, back when twins were rare, a bit magical: cousins of the unicorn, siblings of the elves. We even have a dash of twin telepathy. Go is truly the one person in the entire world I am totally myself with. I don't feel the need to explain my actions to her. I don't clarify, I don't doubt, I don't worry. I don't tell her everything, not anymore, but I tell her more than anyone else, by far. I tell her as much as I can. We spent nine months back to back, covering each other. It became a lifelong habit. It never mattered to me that she was a girl, strange for a deeply self-conscious kid. What can I say? She was always just cool. — Gillian Flynn

If any state in the Union will declare that it prefers separation ... to a continuance in union ... I have no hesitation in saying, 'let us separate. — Thomas Jefferson

Someone is assigned to not only hear your heart's song but will strum your heart strings melodically. Listen with your heart. — Sanjo Jendayi