Nowlan Quotes & Sayings

Growing up is never straight forward.
There are moments when everything is fine, and other moments where you realize that
there are certain memories that you'll never get back, and certain people that are going to change, and the hardest part is knowing that
there's nothing you can do except watch them. — Alden Nowlan

People of color grow up steeped in 'white' culture. The reverse is not true. And, no, listening to hip-hop on the way to work does not count as immersion. — John Ridley

The People is a beast of muddy brain that knows not its own force, and therefore stands loaded with wood and stone. The powerless hands of a mere child guide it with bit and rein. One kick would be enough to break the chain, but the beast fears, and what the child demands it does. Nor its own terror understands, confused and stupefied by bugbears vain. Most Wonderful! With its own hand it ties and gags itself, gives itself death and war for pence doled out by kings from its own store. Its own are ALL THINGS between earth and heaven. But this it knows not. And if one arise to tell this truth, it kills him unforgiven. — Tomasso Campanella

If you want to leave a big mark in life, make sure you've got a bigger rubber — Benny Bellamacina

The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor. — William Feather

If there was one thing to know about families, then it was that they'd never, ever stop meddling in your life. — Anya Nowlan

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise. — Alden Nowlan

I turn to right and left, in all the earth I see no signs of justice, sense or worth: A man does evil deeds, and all his days Are filled with luck and universal praise; Another's good in all he does - he dies A wretched, broken man whom all despise. — Abolqasem Ferdowsi

My country has no history, only a past. — Alden Nowlan

Being a foreigner is not a disease. — Alden Nowlan

Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes. — Alden Nowlan