Ondonte Quotes & Sayings

Francois Truffaut was my godfather on 'Sugar Cane Alley.' He believed in me and in that story, and told everyone that it should be made. — Euzhan Palcy

The composition of our society has been changing. We [world] are becoming a more urban population. Mega-cities, those with more than 10 million residents, are booming. — Hari Sreenivasan

We [ Desaparecidos] try to be the opposite of apathetic. There are so many young people in America that are apathetic. — Conor Oberst

Now, personally, I am baffled by the concept of racial prejudice. Why hate someone based on the color of their skin when, if you take the time to get to know them as a human being, you can find so many other things to hate them for? — Dennis Miller

He tricked himself into thinking that she would look into his eyes and remember, that love would conquer all. — Ann Brashares

Follow me, said Karou.
As if he could have done anything else. — Laini Taylor

We would all love to walk up to someone and shoot them in the head, there's no doubt about that. We're too civilised to admit it, but we're happy to read about it. — Lee Child

Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

That was the remarkable thing about humans - their ability to shape the path of other species, to change their fundamental nature. — Matt Haig

This idea that children won't learn without outside rewards and penalties, or in the debased jargon of the behaviorists, "positive and negative reinforcements," usually becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. If we treat children long enough as if that were true, they will come to believe it is true. So many people have said to me, "If we didn't make children do things, they wouldn't do anything." Even worse, they say, "If I weren't made to do things, I wouldn't do anything."
It is the creed of a slave. — John Holt

And through meditation comes wisdom - not through studying books, not through scriptures. Through scriptures one can become knowledgeable but no wise. and knowledgeable people are sad, they are bound to be sad because all their knowledge is borrowed. There can be no song in it. — Rajneesh

American family life has never been particularly idyllic. In the nineteenth century, nearly a quarter of all children experienced the death of one of their parents ... Not until the sixties did the chief cause of separation of parents shift from death to divorce. — Richard Louv

I'm also giggling, which I think I've done maybe never in my lifetime. — Suzanne Collins

The salient mystery of Dark Ages sets the stage for mass amnesia. People living in vigorous cultures typically treasure those cultures and resist any threat to them. How and why can a people so totally discard a formerly vital culture that it becomes vitally lost. — Jane Jacobs

My biggest challenge was to make sure that the songs I did were who I am. — Justin Timberlake