Inspirational Bamboo Quotes & Sayings

Some of those songs, you really have to bite them. You challenge yourself, you challenge the audience, you do something different. People weren't expecting it. — Andy Taylor

Suppose someone were to describe a small country that provided free education through university for all of its citizens, transportation for schoolchildren, and free health care - including heart surgery - for all. You might suspect that a country is either phenomenally rich or on the fast track to fiscal crisis. — Joseph E. Stiglitz

Skousen's movement (it changed its name from the Freemen Institute to the National Center for Constitutional Studies after militia groups began to use the "freemen" label) persisted. Skousen, claiming to represent the beliefs of the Founding Fathers, called for the abolition of Social Security, farm subsidies, and education and welfare funding; pulling out of the United Nations; and eliminating federal income taxes and most federal regulatory agencies. Skousen's ideas might have died with him, but all that changed when Beck turned The 5,000 Year Leap into his manifesto. Skousen, — Dana Milbank

From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo — Matsuo Basho

Dogs are here to remind us life really is a simple thing. You eat, sleep, take walks, and pee when you must. That's about all there is. They are quick to forgive trespasses and assume strangers will be kind. — Jonathan Carroll

They came out of the vault intoxicated, not by the mere thought of food, but by the consciousness that they too were of use in the world and did not live in vain, and had deserved the praise and thanks which Tonya would shower on them at home. — Boris Pasternak

The United States of Andrew Jackson or George Washington is not the United States of Frederick Douglass or Sitting Bull. But we present our history from the perspective of the winners, from those in power — Chris Hedges

The sense of belonging is one of the great gifts men get in battle. — James A. Michener

I do have great respect for painting, but I am definitely not a painter. I make drawings of paintings, and I'm jealous of painting for sure, but, for me, the paper gives my work a limit. — Robert Longo

I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself — Friedrich Nietzsche

Some days it's best
to do nothing
but ring like a tapped bell. — Ivan M. Granger

The Peace Panda Says ... all pandas are considered sacred and are originally from Tibet. They all love peace and sweet bamboo cookies! — Timothy Pina

In order for peace to reign, one must speak the truth, and that is why I have spoken of a political abduction, ... Far from my own country, but in deep communion with all Haitians, including Haitians abroad, I continue to launch an appeal for peaceful resistance. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide

I decided excess, even in health, was not good for anyone. — Ron Adams

An individual developer like me cares about writing the new code and making it as interesting and efficient as possible. But very few people want to do the testing. — Linus Torvalds