Girdled Roots Quotes & Sayings

Go to where the silence is and say something. — Amy Goodman

The most fitting monuments this nation can build are schoolhouses and homes for those who do the work of the world. It is no answer to say that they are accustomed to rags and hunger. In this world of plenty every human being has a right to food, clothes, decent shelter, and the rudiments of education. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

He was unique among the Aesir in this respect; while all were powerful warriors, he alone wielded death as a weapon. — Mike Vasich

Older people may have always existed throughout history, but they were rare. — S. Jay Olshansky

Until humans came and made anthills out of these mountains, Diwan Sahib was saying, looking up at the langurs, the land had belonged to these monkeys, and to barking deer, nilgai, tiger, barasingha, leopards, jackals, the great horned owl, and even to cheetahs and lions. The archaeology of the wilderness consisted of these lost animals, not of ruined walls, terracotta amulets, and potsherds. — Anuradha Roy

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects. — Raoul Vaneigem

What I want is to hold you like a bell holds space between the hours. — Miguel Murphy

Such competence is not necessarily acquired by means of the 'scholastic' labours in which some 'cinephiles' or 'jazz-freaks' indulge. Most often it results from the unintentional learning made possible by a disposition acquired through domestic or scholastic inculcation of legitimate culture. This transposable disposition, armed with a set of perceptual and evaluative schemes that are available for general application, inclines its owner towards other cultural experiences and enables him to perceive, classify and memorize them differently. . . . In identifying what is worthy of being seen and the right way to see it, they are aided by their whole social group and by the whole corporation of critics mandated by the group to produce legitimate classifications and the discourse necessarily accompanying any artistic enjoyment worthy of the name. — Pierre Bourdieu

To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God. — Charles Caleb Colton

It's not just the child that has autism. It's the whole family that has autism. It's not a one person thing, — Ted Lindsay

As long as I can make an audience feel something, I don't care whether it's a good thing or bad thing, just to feel something is important to me. — Elisha Cuthbert

Had I known only tells us the regretful stories of yesterday better — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

[St. Patrick] was a terror to any snake that came in his path, whether it was the cold, slimy reptile sliding along the ground or the more dangerous snake that oppresses men through false teachings. And he drove the snakes out of the minds of men, snakes of superstition and brutality and cruelty. — Arthur Brisbane

I didn't start to collect records and listen to guitar players properly until I went to art school, when I'd already been playing for five years. So my style was already formed, and that's why I think it's so unique. — Pete Townshend