Old Cannery Quotes & Sayings

They'll be fine," Wickersham said. "Practice makes perfect."
I had to ask. "You practice running away?"
"We knew we'd make enemies. Other organizations have fire drills; we have oh-shit-someone-found-our-ass drills. — Scott Westerfeld

In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers. — Malala Yousafzai

The Americans say that we are ungrateful-but I ask them for heaven's sake, what should we be grateful to them for-for murdering our fathers and mothers?-Or do they wish us to return thanks to them for chaining and handcuffing us, branding us, cramming fire down our throats, or for keeping us in slavery, and beating us nearly or quite to death to make us work in ignorance and miseries, to support them and their families. They certainly think we are a gang of fools. — David Walker

I believe fear of what we do not know may be the devil's best tool, meant to keep us back from those we long to approach. — Vicki Grove

Nevertheless, Chinese drivers haven't grasped the subtleties of headlight use. Most people keep their lights off until it's pitch-dark, and then they flip on the brights. Almost nobody uses headlights in rain, fog, snow, or twilight conditions - in fact, this is one of the few acts guaranteed to annoy a Chinese driver. They don't mind if you tailgate, or pass on the right, or drive on the the sidewalk. You can back down a highway entrance ramp without anybody batting an eyelash. But if you switch on your lights during a rainstorm, approaching drivers will invariably flash their brights in annoyance. — Peter Hessler

I'm thankful that every day I actually get to wake up. — Andrew Chan

A person has to have a flaw somewhere. — Khaled Hosseini

You need to laugh more. Life is filled with too many problems, to not laugh every day ... We need to have a sense of humor going into this because it's too tough without it. — Ysabella Brave

Pheromones didn't care about tomorrow. They didn't care about education or employment or age. — Tracy Brogan

Public affairs go on pretty much as usual: perpetual chicanery and rather more personal abuse than there used to be. — John Adams

What first got me involved in politics was being 14, and a youth organizer comes to my house with a van full of 14 year old girls. "Hey, you want to go to the beach with us? But first we're going to go support the cannery workers' strike in Watsonville." — Boots Riley

I can't see where there is anywhere left to move. If you don't have a recount it's hard to receive any more votes. — Robert Torricelli

I think it's a great thing to have failed in life and then pulled yourself up by the boot straps and actually done something, because then you appreciate it more. — Shirley Manson

Your body is the harp of your soul and it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds. — Kahlil Gibran