Ngaati Quotes & Sayings

I'm not trying to top anything. I'm trying to be useful, to play a positive role, to serve the public interest. — Al Gore

The physical fabric of the world had to be such as to enable that ten billion year preliminary evolution to produce the raw materials of life. Without it there would not have been the chemical materials to allow life to evolve here on earth. — John Polkinghorne

Here
You always belonged here.
You were theirs, certain as a rock.
I'm the one who worries
if I fit in with the furniture
and the landscape.
But I "follow too much
the devices and desires of my own heart."
Already the curves in the road
are familiar to me, and the mountain
in all kinds of light,
treating all people the same.
and when I come over the hill,
I see the house, with its generous
and firm proportions, smoke
rising gaily from the chimney.
I feel my life start up again,
like a cutting when it grows
the first pale and tentative
root hair in a glass of water. — Jane Kenyon

Are the activities and assessments we use accomplishing our intended instructional goals, or are they simply what we have always done? — Donalyn Miller

I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you the strength to do the right thing and behave the right way and overcome the mind. — Alexis Arguello

When you see anyone complaining of such and such a person's ill-nature and bad temper, know that the complainant is bad-tempered, forasmuch as he speaks ill of that bad-tempered person, because he alone is good-tempered who is quietly forbearing towards the bad-tempered and ill-natured. — Rumi

I'm really interested in photography, like every other human being. — Alexa Chung

I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to a hundred interests and influences that begin much earlier nowadays to affect any clever child. — Mary Augusta Ward

I want to have my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames. — Jim Morrison

Our lives should be more than just focusing on our marriage but on focusing our marriage toward what God's mission is for us as a couple. — Francis Chan

Death is the guest you didn't invite: arriving when you least expect it, least need it and when you least want it. — Jodi Picoult

Because even though I didn't always tell you, you've had my heart since the day I met you. Your lips were always my bliss. And I know we weren't sorta like fate. We were exactly like fate. — Jillian Dodd

Are you laughing at me?" I squawk. I laugh, too, my voice sounds so strained. Will's laughter picks up even more. "I can't help it. You make me happy. — Kristin Halbrook

I like the idea of not having to do stuff for the money, and if I want to, I can pick indie projects for the rest of my life and be quite happy doing that. — Daniel Radcliffe