Noirin Brady Quotes & Sayings

Question four: What book would you give to every child?
Answer: I wouldn't give them a book. Books are part of the problem: this strange belief that a tree has nothing to say until it is murdered, its flesh pulped, and then (human) people stain this flesh with words. I would take children outside and put them face to face with chipmunks, dragonflies, tadpoles, hummingbirds, stones, rivers, trees, crawdads.
That said, if you're going to force me to give them a book, it would be The Wind In The Willows, which I hope would remind them to go outside. — Derrick Jensen

Hopefully, we can build a rivalry and we'll be able to do this a lot. Make a legacy, then retire champions. — Serena Williams

Nagasaki destroyed by the magic of science is the nearest man has yet approached to the realization of dreams that even during the safe immobility of sleep are accustomed to develop into nightmares of anxiety. — J.G. Ballard

Private equity has absolutely no reason to exist. The private equity holder has all the upside and the banks all the downside. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

When you have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home, the only thing you can control is how you respond publicly. — Portia De Rossi

The Jews themselves, of whom a considerable number were already scattered throughout the colonies, were true to the teachings of their prophets. The Jewish faith is predominantly the faith of liberty. — Calvin Coolidge

What reason have atheists for saying that we cannot rise again? That what has never been, should be, or that what has been, should be again? Is it more difficult to come into being than to return to it. — Blaise Pascal

For every negative that is a disappointment, there is one that is a joy. — Edward S. Curtis

I flee who chases me and chase who flees me. — Ovid

Alcohol buoyed you up and it washed your eyes clean. — Robert Galbraith

The game is never lost till won. — George Crabbe

Don't delay. It's getting late. — Jeffrey R. Holland