Kingbird Quotes & Sayings

I don't think I was all that late in becoming a father. — Brad Pitt

Time is short, life is short, there's a lot to know. So I skip the entertainers in the newspaper now. I just haven't got time. — Tom Stoppard

Adolescence is the period of the decisive last battle fought before maturity. The ego must achieve independence, the old emotional ties must be cast off, the new ones created. — Helene Deutsch

Some people have a taboo about doing advertising in the States. You know, where they kind of make their bread and butter. But to me, that's crazy. — Ice Cube

What choices are you making in your perception of the events around you? We choose how we view our times. There is a pinch of pessimism in our culture now. Counter it with small acts of optimism. Pick up a piece of litter that isn't yours. Show some extra grace on the freeway. Give to your food bank. Smile at a child who is in your way. Help someone you know. Help someone you don't know. The accumulation of small, optimistic acts produces quality in our culture and in your life. Our culture resonates in tense times to individual acts of grace. What's your choice? — Jennifer James

The bad preacher takes the ideas of our own age and tricks them out into the traditional language of Christianity. The core of his thought is merely contemporary; only the superficies is traditional. But your teaching must be timeless at its heart and wear modern dress. — C.S. Lewis

Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism. — Noam Chomsky

As companies grow they acquire a dogma that constrains them. — Sahar Hashemi

The main purpose of a church is to bring relevance to people and make sure everyone discovers their calling — Sunday Adelaja

From a very young age, I wanted to be an actor, but I lived in a very small town in Florida where there weren't any opportunities for that. — Lauren Miller

THE ROOT OF RELIGION The idea of literal truth crept into religion relatively late: it is the invention of lawyers, priests and cheese-mongers. The idea of mystery long preceded it, and at the heart of that idea of mystery was an idea of beauty - that is, an idea that this or that view of the celestial and infernal process presented a satisfying picture of form, rhythm and organization. Once this view was adopted as satisfying, its professional interpreters and their dupes sought to reinforce it by declaring it true. The same flow of reasoning is familiar on lower planes. The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.[Pg — Henry Louis Mencken

For any ruffian of the sky
your kingbird doesn't give a damn-
his royal warcry is I AM
and he's the soul of chivalry
in terror of whose furious beak
(as sweetly singing creatures know)
cringes the hugest heartless hawk
and veers the vast most crafty crow
your kingbird doesn't give a damn
for murderers of high estate
whose mongrel creed is Might Makes Right
-his royal warcry is I AM
true to his mate his chicks his friends
he loves because he cannot fear
(you see it in the way he stand
and looks and leaps upon the air) — E. E. Cummings

this 97% [of climate scientists accepting human-caused global warming], that doesn't mean anything. — James Inhofe