Madaraka Day Songs Quotes & Sayings

If your car could travel at the speed of light, would your headlights work? — Steven Wright

At which point, at long last, there was the actual doing it, quickly followed by the grim realization of what it meant to do it, followed by the decision to quit doing it because doing it was absurd and pointless and ridiculously difficult and far more than I expected doing it would be and I was profoundly unprepared to do it. — Cheryl Strayed

I write because I want to have more than one life. — Anne Tyler

Listening to the debates about public schools on the Christian Right, one hears plenty of opposing opinions and a great deal of confusion. Some want to change the schools, others want to leave them. But the smart money seems to know what it is doing. It provides support for programs like the Good News Club, which slowly erode the support for public education in the country at large and in their own constituency in particular. And then it lays the groundwork for dismantling public education in favor of a private system of religious education funded by the state. — Katherine Stewart

Life has no friend ... — Edna St. Vincent Millay

I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it. — Peter Diamandis

Not having a New York culinary tradition, far from being limiting, it's an opportunity to create freely. — Wylie Dufresne

Flesh will not stand in front of God, so all the decisions you make from your flesh will be paid for with your soul. Your flesh rejects the truth because it desires to do what it wants to do. — Monica Johnson

My dad, as a guy, had to quit school in the ninth grade, fought in the Battle of the Bulge. And spent his life pushing wheel barrels of heavy wet cement. So we've gone from pushing cement to now in one generation pushing legislation. But we always want any president to succeed, to do well; that means America does well and Americans do well. — John Barrasso

The interior life is the spiritual life. It focuses on truth and the good. It — Pope John Paul II