Nobue Ibaraki Quotes & Sayings

Let Harlequin be taken with a fit of the colic, and his trappings will have to serve that mood too. — Henry David Thoreau

Eighty-one is old, shockingly old. I'm shocked myself when I think about it. I don't feel old, and over and over I wonder how I got to be eighty-one. I always used to be the youngest kid - in my classes, on my summer camp baseball team, on the tennis team - and now suddenly I'm the oldest person anywhere I go - restaurants, movies, professional conferences. I can't get used to it. — Irvin D. Yalom

Few people understood the exceptional role the civil rights movement had on the white boys and girls of the South. Bill Clinton would never have become who he was without the shining example of Martin Luther King. The same is true of Jimmy Carter and Fritz Hollings and Richard and Joe Riley. Imagine this: you're a little white kid and you watch firehoses turned on people who don't seem to be hurting anyone, and fierce dogs being tuned on young men who carry signs about freedom. We white kids grew up watching movies and TV and guess what we had learned to do? We had learned to tell the good guys from the bad guys. — Pat Conroy

It's all about gold. It's all about gold, gold, gold, gold! Excess! — Anna Dello Russo

All the people constitute the militia - according to the Founding Fathers. Therefore every able-bodied man has a duty under the Constitution to become part of the "well-regulated" militia, specifically to understand and perform well with the individual weapon currently issued to the regular establishment ... Thus one who has not qualified himself with the M-16 may not be considered to be a responsible citizen. — Jeff Cooper

But we do not merely protest; we make renewed demand for freedom in that vast kingdom of the human spirit where freedom has ever had the right to dwell:the expressing of thought to unstuffed ears; the dreaming of dreams by untwisted souls. — W.E.B. Du Bois

If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. — Kahlil Gibran

The political powers, in both Jesus' day and our own, play on fear to get their way - whether it be the fear of the emperor, the fear of terrorists, the fear of the foreign "other," or the fear of death. But with "this day" comes a new possibility. The first words spoken after Jesus' birth are "'Do not be afraid; for see - I am bringing you good news of great joy for all the people. — Albert L. Blackwell

God is an idea, the devil is us. — Joe R. Lansdale

Footprints are an amazing thing, even the ones you can't see. They make you wonder who's walked right where you're walking. Who's travelled this same path? What were their concerns? Who did they love? Are they still alive? — A.E. Murphy

When you don't know where you fit inside the home and you're young and you're desperate to fit in somewhere, I'd figured where I would fit outside the home. So I made some obviously bad decisions about who I hung out with and the things that I did. — Tullian Tchividjian

Life is a process of discovery, of new perceptions. — Gladys Taber

Saints and Sinners may be separated by their actions, but they are united by their reaction to passion. — Gaiven Clairmont