Ladarious Spires Quotes & Sayings

Reason without learning is like the untilled soil, or like the human body that lacks nourishment. — Khalil Gibran

Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never. — Jane Austen

One of the most essential and mundane of human activities - taking care of children - requires high levels of anxious vigilance ... [Parents] dare not risk assuming that the sudden quiet from the toddlers' room means they are studying with Baby Einstein. Visualize fratricidal stranglings and electric outlets stabbed with forks: this is how we have reproduced our genomes. — Barbara Ehrenreich

We are not a nation of immigrants. We are a nation of citizens. I am sick and tired of the American citizen being demeaned and treated as a second-class citizen while anybody who crosses the border is treated as the most virtuous human being on the face of the earth. — Mark Levin

Morning dew upon the grass,
glistening in the sun.
Yesterday's gone,
tomorrow may come,
but this day has begun. — Calvin W. Allison

It's amazing that this is still news to people, but that affects the final outcome of the film. When people are treated well, and they're made to feel valued, they give 110 percent. — Adam Arkin

I've done every tour with them since then and will always be with them as long as they're together. — Jimmy Carl Black

She's got those big black eyes with plenty shiny white in them that makes them shine like brand new money and she knows what God gave women eyelashes for, too. Her hair is not what you might call straight. It's negro hair, but it's got a kind of white flavor. Like the piece of string out of a ham. It's not ham at all, but it's been around ham and got the flavor. — Zora Neale Hurston

The most advanced minds as well as the least advanced are obliged to use the same words. If we adopt new words, it will be even more difficult - if not impossible - to make ourselves understood. The new man must therefore express himself in conventional language. — Piet Mondrian

Anything is possible; possibilities exist in any problem. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I have a private life in which I do not permit interference. It must be respected. — Vladimir Putin

I speak to kids 16, 17 years old, they haven't read a newspaper. They haven't physically handled a newspaper. They don't even look at the headlines on a subway. These kids are on the Internet and the level of news that they're getting is not the quality of 'The New York Times' or 'The Wall Street Journal.' It's way deficient, and they don't care. — Harvey Weinstein

By growing up in Alabama, I had a melting pot of the whole pie: R&B, gospel, country. — Lionel Richie

I ask now, standing with my scissors among my flowers, Where can the shadow enter? [ ... ] I am sick of the body, I am sick of my own craft, industry and cunning, of the unscrupulous ways of the mother who protects, who collects under her jealous eyes at one long table her own children, always her own. — Virginia Woolf