Mcleod Quotes & Sayings

World peace and brotherhood are based on a common understanding of the contributions and cultures of all races and creeds — Mary McLeod Bethune

I believe that nothing in life is unimportant every moment can be a beginning. — John McLeod

In some roles you do get into a mode of terror. It's always very frightening - the first audiences are frightening ... — Ian McLeod

We may not know who is craft beer but we sure as hell will know what is craft beer by who isn't. — Alan Arnett McLeod

To hate the hate was just more hate; to reject the rejection was just more rejection; to judge the judging, just more judging. — T. Scott McLeod

I have chosen to seek election to the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors and not reelection to Congress. — Gloria Negrete McLeod

It is all, the unfolding. Neither good nor bad, my destiny. — T. Scott McLeod

The progress of the world will call for the best that all of us have to give. — Mary McLeod Bethune

Stand in your own two shoes. — T. Scott McLeod

I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence — Doug McLeod

We find what's in our own heads. — T. Scott McLeod

We are made most specifically by the things we cannot bear to do — Alexander McLeod

The song of thrush and blackbird, joy that falls so gently on the ears to celebrate another day of life and living, flying free. — John McLeod

Orange Juice? Sure. Toast? Sure. One last time on the couch? Sure. Phone number? Sure. See you again? Oooh, absolutely. That was the lie I told. Probably not, that was the truth, that was that which went unspoken. — T. Scott McLeod

I feel so trapped, by my ego. — T. Scott McLeod

There is nothing more pathetically sad than a parent who teaches a child not to hit by spanking them. Well, that, and adults who think hitting someone will solve a problem. — Anitra Lynn McLeod

The Sales Manager Question That Changes Everything How will this customer be different as a result of doing business with us? — L. McLeod

Why hold secrets? Why harbor anything? Let me just share everything with you. Let me just talk. Let me let go of the censor that is within me ... I'm tired of trying to be someone other than who I am. — T. Scott McLeod

Each day's a gift of Life divine a precious jewel that's yours and mine! — John McLeod

Whatever you love, Do that! — Denise McLeod

You just do it, then if you die, you die. — T. Scott McLeod

I am not alone, in my aloneness. — T. Scott McLeod

The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth. — Mary McLeod Bethune

I do feel, in my dreamings and yearnings, so undiscovered by those who are able to help me. — Mary McLeod Bethune

Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better. — Mary McLeod Bethune

What does the Negro want? His answer is very simple. He wants only what all other Americans want. He wants opportunity to make real what the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and the Bill of Rights say, what the Four Freedoms establish. While he knows these ideals are open to no man completely, he wants only his equal chance to obtain them. — Mary McLeod Bethune

In the beginning we start with roses. The king's flower right? Only they wilt in less than a day, especially when exposed to the elements. But Carnations? Oh, what a beautiful flower. They come in every color. True, some are painted, but that doesn't mean they are less beautiful, and they never wilt. — Ruth McLeod-Kearns

Quite often I play roles that require quite a degree of emotional exposure, and they can be very difficult to do. — Ian McLeod

Knowledge is the prime need of the hour. — Mary McLeod Bethune

When the earth is sick and polluted, human health is impossible ... To heal ourselves we must heal our planet, and to heal our planet we must heal ourselves. — Bobby McLeod

In comedy, it's very, very important to be able to open up so that people feel they're included. — Ian McLeod

Believe in yourself, learn, and never stop wanting to build a better world. — Mary McLeod Bethune

What would my life, have been like, if I hadn't been put up for adoption? Who would my parents have been then? Or my parent, my mother? — T. Scott McLeod

I have got a reputation to protect ... — Ian McLeod

It's fun doing 'McLeod's,' but at the same time the show doesn't go very deep, so there is only so far you can go with a part like that. — Gillian Alexy

When you love yourself, utterly and completely, all of yourself, what you will discover then is that you love others, all others, utterly and completely. — T. Scott McLeod

Society advances further on the backs of the living than it does on the backs of its dead. — Allan McLeod

My chief literary influences have been Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. My favorite public figures include Jimmy Durante, Marlene Dietrich, Mary McLeod Bethune, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Marian Anderson, and Henry Armstrong. — Langston Hughes

Becky was a weed. Nobody ever wanted them taking over the bigger, prettier plants. People went to all extremes to make them go away. They sprayed poison, pulled until the roots gave way. They felt only like their garden was complete when every tendril was extirpated. This was how she felt from birth. — Ruth McLeod-Kearns

Keep fit and have fun!" ~Hal Johnson and Joanne McLeod — Kevin Mcpherson Eckhoff

If you truthfully can say without a doubt within your heart Dear Lord, Thy will be done, and God knows best! — John McLeod

From the first, I made my learning, what little it was, useful every way I could. — Mary McLeod Bethune

'McLeod's Daughters' was my first regular job out of drama school, and my first full-time role. That was great because I learned a lot, in terms of working in front of the camera. — Dustin Clare

If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ... that smacks of discrimination or slander. — Mary McLeod Bethune

When you're working in the business and you are genuinely trying to do what's right for consumers, and you're trying to genuinely do what's right for suppliers, but the word doesn't get out, the word doesn't get heard because frankly the media is not interested because it hasn't got a conflict attached to it. — Ian McLeod

Life gives you exactly what you need to awaken. — T. Scott McLeod

Do you want love, or do you want control? — T. Scott McLeod

The morning was brisk and the coffee was hot and roasted with little gurgles in the room. Rosie hadn't moved, but she let out a tiny snore every now and again that made everything perfect. — Ruth McLeod-Kearns

Eleanor Roosevelt fights for an anti-lynch law with the NAACP, with Walter White and Mary McLeod Bethune. And she begs FDR to say one word, say one word to prevent a filibuster or to end a filibuster. From '34 to '35 to '36 to '37 to '38, it comes up again and again, and FDR doesn't say one word. And the correspondence between them that we have, I mean, she says, "I cannot believe you're not going to say one word." And she writes to Walter White, "I've asked FDR to say one word. Perhaps he will." But he doesn't. And these become very bitter disagreements. — Blanche Wiesen Cook

Is it love, or is it attachment? Do you want to love her, or do you want to control her? — T. Scott McLeod

His wry sense of humour and his stalwart courage were an inspiring example to so many. His ability to laugh at Life's idiosyncrasies and himself in a self deprecating way taught that most valuable of lessons: 'to be of good cheer, no matter what Life threw at you, and ever to find the hope that dwells in every human heart'. — John McLeod

Without faith nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible. — Mary McLeod Bethune

It is only path bending. Don't let it be mind bending. — T. Scott McLeod

To those of you with your years of service still ahead, the challenge is yours. Stop doubting yourselves. Have the courage to make up your minds and hold your decisions. Refuse to be BOUGHT for a nickel, or a million dollars, or a job! — Mary McLeod Bethune

When I was young, I lacked certainty, too," he says. "I have the certainty, now, of not needing certainty. I have the certainty, of uncertainty. The peace, with being uncertain. All is good. All is holy. Whatever you choose, it can be fine. Hatred never ceases with hatred, but with love alone is healed. Rejection never ceases with rejection, but with acceptance alone is healed. — T. Scott McLeod

You can't resent the other person for not giving you what you didn't ask for. — T. Scott McLeod

The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood. — Mary McLeod Bethune

The way is not clear, and it is when you do not have clarity, when this is allowed, that you will finally have clarity. — T. Scott McLeod

It's the melody within the heart that helps us to endure. — John McLeod

In each experience of my life, I have had to step out of one little space of the known light, into a large area of darkness. I had to stand awhile in the darkness, and then gradually God has given me light. But not to linger in. For as soon as that light has felt familiar, then the call has always come to step out ahead again into new darkness. — Mary McLeod Bethune

To love, and be loved, this is the greatest challenge that any of us face in our lives. — T. Scott McLeod

[To the patronizing train conductor who had twice said, 'Auntie, give me your ticket':] Which of my sister's sons are you? — Mary McLeod Bethune

You don't like to have people believing that you're doing the wrong thing which is why we're trying to make sure that people recognise that we do the right thing. — Ian McLeod

An improbable set of circumstances.
An impossible situation.
How long could she hold on to the truth? Should she hold on?...Was she obligated to protect the deceptions of the dead when the truth might somehow help the living? — Jenn J. McLeod

The mind is limitless, in its creations. — T. Scott McLeod

Fate is not quite as strange as it appears! — John McLeod

Knowing without any doubt that the newly elected cannot help but be his zombies, Obama is the cat who swallowed the canary. — Judi McLeod

Normally when we think about politics, we think about issues, policies, programs - the stuff of day-to-day government. Or we think of the contest of politics - the parties, the polls, the candidates, the strategies.

These are all important questions, of course, but they are only surface manifestations of deeper political issues, issues which are moral, psychological, and ultimately, spiritual. Politics is all about how we live together as human beings, and all spiritual practices point to one profound truth about human life - that only love leads to peace, hatred never does. This is as true for nations as it is for individuals. — Melvin McLeod

We all have pasts that haunt us, Mr. McLeod. — Ramona Flightner

[In high school] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested in astronomy and devoured the popular works of astronomers such as Sir Arthur Eddington and Sir James Jeans, from which I learnt that a knowledge of mathematics and physics was essential to the pursuit of astronomy. This increased my fondness for those subjects. — Allan McLeod Cormack

If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs. — Mary McLeod Bethune

Being an effective person-centred counsellor is not so much a matter of possessing skills and knowledge, but of having a particular set of deeply-held values and beliefs and then being able to express these qualities in interactions with other people. — John McLeod

Love can give you such happiness, then can break the very heart it filled, leaving a hole that can never be fixed or protected by any armour. — Kevin McLeod

Can you allow yourself to be impaled on the present moment? — T. Scott McLeod

Easy to be a critic; hard to be a quarterback. — T. Scott McLeod

I don't know where I'm going on this path. I don't know what I'm doing with my life. You had to be lost, before you could be found. These are the truths. You had to be confused, before you could find clarity; you had to suffer, before you could find peace. These were the only ways, life could happen. Of course you were confused before you found clarity. If you weren't confused, then you would already be clear. Of course you were lost before you were found. If you were already found, then you wouldn't be lost. Of course there would be suffering before peace. If there was already peace, then there wouldn't be suffering. One necessarily came before the other. — T. Scott McLeod

What takes courage: no make - up. No make - up at all. Like The Matrix. I did the matrix and they had a rule all the characters in The Matrix, except the leads, of course, wore absolutely nothing on their face. — Ian McLeod

Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living. — Mary McLeod Bethune

I think I've always been much better at responding kind of reasonably appropriately to whatever is required. — Ian McLeod

One is reminded how often avant-gardism is a more polite label for the concerns of angry young men, sometimes graying young men. — Mary McLeod

Let whatever happens, be what needs to happen, so that I may awaken. — T. Scott McLeod

Kind words are such a blessing to the needful, if one but knew the pleasure that they bring. — John McLeod

Life though, is full of compensations and I have been well blessed throughout my 'Life Journey' with good friends met and made along the way. Life is a kind of swings and roundabouts situation; if you can't kick a football you turn to other pursuits. — John McLeod

I become quite inhibited particularly when I do comedy, I won't - there's a whole thing of allowing an audience in and if you - if you cover yourself with a mask of, kind of, severity, which I'm quite good at doing, that's masking fear of course, then people feel shut out. — Ian McLeod

We oft question and compare ... Is the journey so important or the getting there? — John McLeod

hates to be startled, or scared, or surprised. — Emily McLeod

I write as a mode of penance for the arrogance inherent in my despair. — Charles McLeod

A woman is free if she lives by her own standards and creates her own destiny, if she prizes her individuality and puts no boundaries on her hopes for tomorrow. — Mary McLeod Bethune

Studying goes deeper than mere reading. There are surface nuggets to be gathered but the best of the gold is underneath, and it takes time and labor to secure it. — Mary McLeod Bethune

Forgiving is not about forgetting, it's letting go of the hurt — Mary McLeod Bethune

You necessarily have to be lost, before you're found. — T. Scott McLeod

My federal, state, and local experience will allow me the opportunity to effectively represent the constituents of the Fourth District. — Gloria Negrete McLeod

Do not forget to hope and happy be. — John McLeod

I believe in miracles ... prayers that are answered and healing hands. — John McLeod

Enter to learn; depart to serve. — Mary McLeod Bethune

I have had more than half a century of such happiness. A great deal of worry and sorrow, too, but never a worry or a sorrow that was not offset by a purple iris, a lark, a bluebird, or a dewy morning glory. — Mary McLeod Bethune

He believes that words can be a powerful healing tool if used with loving intention, to uplift, encourage and inspire. — John McLeod

There is a complete disconnect really or should be a disconnect between the retail price of the milk and what's actually going on in the marketplace, and what influences the farm gate price is the export market. — Ian McLeod

Hatred never ceases with hatred, but with love alone is healed. — T. Scott McLeod

Laugh often friends tho' passing years bring, sometimes, smiles and, sometimes, tears, for mirth forever warms and cheers. Laugh often! — John McLeod