Hair In Their Eyes Were Watching God Quotes & Sayings

I know animals more gallant than the African warthog, but none more courageous. He is the peasant of the plains - the drab and dowdy digger in the earth. He is the uncomely but intrepid defender of family, home, and bourgeois convention, and he will fight anything of any size that intrudes upon his smug existence ... His eyes are small and lightless and capable of but one expression - suspicion. What he does not understand, he suspects, and what he suspects, he fights. — Beryl Markham

Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger. — James Joyce

Your highest purpose and calling is often really calling for your own healing — Bryant McGill

Most of us feel on some level like race horses chomping at the bit, pressing at the gate, hoping and praying for someone to open the door and let us run out. We feel so much pent up energy, so much locked up talent. We know in our hearts that we were born to do great things, and we have a deep-seated dread of wasting our lives. But the only person who can free us is ourselves. Most of us know that. We realize that the locked door is our own fear. — Marianne Williamson

A single currency means a single government, and that single government would be the government whose policies determined every aspect of economic life. — Enoch Powell

We believe half-instinctively that evil always defeats itself in the long run. Pacifism is founded largely on this belief. Don't resist evil, and it will somehow destroy itself. But why should it? What evidence is there that it does ... unless conquered from the outside by military force? — George Orwell

We created god in our own image and likeness! — George Carlin

The thing about any character is that you want to be sincere. — Genndy Tartakovsky

The living have a simple choice. They can pay a high penalty for believing their lies - sheer stupidity! - or laugh at themselves and be happy. — Miguel Ruiz

Sometimes It's awesome to be childish with your friend or partner. — Dinakar Reddy