Khalilah Birdsong Quotes & Sayings

In the next room Baby Kochamma heard the noise and came to find out what it was all about. She saw Grief and Trouble ahead, and secretly, in her heart of hearts, she rejoiced. — Arundhati Roy

Only those who truly love and who are truly strong can sustain their lives as a dream. You dwell in your own enchantment. Life throws stones at you, but your love and your dream change those stones into the flowers of discovery. Even if you lose, or are defeated by things, your triumph will always be exemplary. And if no one knows it, then there are places that do. People like you enrich the dreams of the worlds, and it is dreams that create history. People like you are unknowing transformers of things, protected by your own fairy-tale, by love. — Ben Okri

In advocating any measure we must consider not only its justice but its practicability. — Theodore Roosevelt

A good preview makes you can't wait to see the whole movie. — A.D. Posey

He softened and looked at me. "Oh, yeah, I met the right man, all right. A fucking miracle. An angel here on earth." His voice was soft as cotton and his eyes shone like diamonds. What could I say to that? — T.A. Webb

The U.S. has always been a contradiction. It's always been a deeply protectionist, institutional place, where you're not allowed to smoke, and you're not allowed to do this, and you're not allowed to do that. And then, on the other hand, it's completely libertarian in a way. So it's got this weird mixture of being incredibly authoritarian and incredibly open at the same time. — Liam Gillick

Your state of consciousness, right now, will determine what you manifest in the future. — Christopher Dines

I know what it takes to win. If I can sell them on what it takes to win, then we are not going to lose too many football games. — Bear Bryant

it's no mystery that all cells here on earth should be chemiosmotic. I would expect that cells across the universe will be chemiosmotic too. — Nick Lane

If you never bother to say the words, why should anyone believe you ever felt them? — Richelle E. Goodrich

But you have nothing better to do with your time than harass us, do you? Go back to ruling the universe from Mount Olympus or whatever else it is you mongrels do. — Claudia Gray

I'm perceptive enough to understand people's souls to the extent that I know the real thing only happens in fairy tales but ever so often if people are patient enough...and mature enough, they find that person that unlocks a secret in their heart, even if they've never laid eyes on each other...it's as if they already knew each other from a past life and they've been walking through amnesia waiting to remember what always was. — Luke Taylor