Lorain Quotes & Sayings

It's better to have ten disorganized players than ten organized runners. — Roberto Baggio

Should I abide by the rules until they're changed, or help speed the change by breaking them? — Ashleigh Brilliant

Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance of self-sufficiency. It expresses itself in ugly egotism and frequently in wanton mischief. We have seen our beaches, our parks, our forests littered with ugly refuse by those who evidently have no appreciation for their beauty. I have driven through thousands of acres of blackened land scourged by a fire evidently set by a careless smoker whose only concern had been the selfish pleasure gained from a cigarette. — Gordon B. Hinckley

If you don't flirt, you're probably dead inside. — Katharine Towne

I thought the whole world was like Lorain. — Toni Morrison

I think you should fall in love at least twice in high school. — Jenny Han

Teachers affect eternity; no one can tell where their influence stops. — Henry Adams

I never asked Tolstoy to write for me, a little colored girl in Lorain, Ohio. I never asked [James] Joyce not to mention Catholicism or the world of Dublin. Never. And I don't know why I should be asked to explain your life to you. We have splendid writers to do that, but I am not one of them. It is that business of being universal, a word hopelessly stripped of meaning for me. Faulkner wrote what I suppose could be called regional literature and had it published all over the world. That's what I wish to do. If I tried to write a universal novel, it would be water. Behind this question is the suggestion that to write for black people is somehow to diminish the writing. From my perspective there are only black people. When I say 'people,' that's what I mean. — Toni Morrison

It's funny how loud horrified silence can be. Curran laughed. — Ilona Andrews

especially as they did not trust one another. — Thucydides

You can always trust a lazy person to be at their best. — Marty Rubin

Occasionally, as children, we might figure out how to call somebody a name, and they would figure out how to call us. But it wasn't - it was so light. It was so fluffy. I didn't really have a strong awareness of segregation and the separation of races until I left Lorain, Ohio. — Toni Morrison

In those days I was new to covers; merely felt pleased that a story of mine had been honored. I later met Rogers who did some of my early covers and I was impressed with him. — A.E. Van Vogt

But after my fall and my near death, fear and caution — Oliver Sacks

Sometimes it's easier to block out our feelings toward someone because the alternative is to feel the pain. — Angela Peach