Mattilda Sycamore Quotes & Sayings

U.S. society, after all, continues to be starkly segregated along class and race lines, never allowing people to have the sort of interactions necessary to undo prejudices, stereotypes, and oppressions. — Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

The balance to life is kale cakes and cupcakes — Joe

Yes, the United States is still the great meritocracy it's always been; but now, if you aren't brilliant or beautiful or both, there isn't much to do, because they can do it cheaper in Shanghai or Mumbai. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

There is something new in the air. There is, there is a - a hunger for an open, non-dogmatic, form of Christian faith and practice, which adapts itself to a rapidly changing world; and speaks to that world the message of Jesus Christ. And a freedom to rediscover some of the language of the tradition now that's it's not handed down to us, you know, with a strict framework of doctrinal, fixed structures. — Philip Clayton

Being in my mom's skin, feeling what she'd felt those years before. It was the sudden realization that my dying granny, who had been distant and alien to me, was my mom's mom. — Hugh Howey

cruise the ones in the flesh, not the ghosts on the internet — Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

If you want or need to move, move with a winning record of success, move with a plan, and move to something you love. — Jeffrey Gitomer

If we eliminate the pressure to pass, what delicious and devastating opportunities for transformation might we create? — Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

A lot of people are afraid of critique because they think it means you aren't supporting them. For me, the most important thing in any kind of relationship is the critical engagement. — Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

The government gets it right on Head Start. We are providing opportunities for children in underserved areas where parents may not be able to afford preschool so they can begin their schooling with a running or Head Start. — Bob Filner

My murdered poets drew from deep wells, even if they were presently hidden from me. They spoke the same words as the monks, as the Conquistadores, as our Dictator General, but coaxed a language anew from the charred bones they'd been tossed. I had taken comfort that we had been lying for millennia, erasing whole races of writers, executing texts with aplomb. It wasn't new. And someone had always been pressing hidden words from quill to parchment backed by stone. Whispering them into someone's ear. Even if the parchment was burned and the hand chopped off and thrown into the same fire, the stone remained. Only there were the words legible. — Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes

Every time a trick hangs up on me, I gain a renewed faith in humanity - someone really cares! — Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

The key to getting out of a bad relationship is being able to imagine something more fulfilling. --D. Travers Scott — Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore