Onoha Quotes & Sayings

Being born into a prosperous middle-class family typically endows you with a safety net for life. If you are not naturally very bright, you are still likely to go far and, at the very least, will never experience poverty as an adult. A good education compounded by your parents' 'cultural capital', financial support and networks will always see you through. If you are a bright child born into a working-class family, you do not have any of these things. The odds are that you will not be better off than your parents. — Owen Jones

I would listen to Little Richard and Fats Domino and Chuck Berry, and I would listen to how they played their riffs, and after I taught myself that, I taught myself to play my own kind of stuff. — Brian Wilson

We must remember that we cannot change others, we can only change ourselves. — Bryant McGill

And Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, said in 1943, I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. — Michio Kaku

A hungry man thinks only about how he can feed his family today. He doesn't care that how he feeds them today destroys his children's tomorrow. — Steven Gould

The people who actually make the advances in theoretical physics don't think in these categories that the philosophers and the historians of science subsequently invent for them — Stephen Hawking

I want to experience everything heaven offers, but most of all, I want to hear those never-ending songs again. — Don Piper

What separates Rand from Marx is that the latter saw the true flourishing of individual creativity as best accomplished through collaboration and association with others in a collective drive to abolish the barriers of scarcity and material necessity beyond which, Marx held, the true realm of individual freedom could begin. — David Harvey

The Confederate government cupboards were practically bare: in recent months the purchasing orders for its agent James Bulloch in Liverpool had broadened from military supplies to include such ordinary items as "one dozen erasers," "two dozen memorandum books of different sizes, and 12 dozen best lead pencils. — Anonymous

I thought about how the smallest of things could set someone on a bustling fire when you didn't have the right shoulder to lean on. — Diyar Harraz

We're not really conscious of what we're doing most of the time. — Sebastian Faulks

If mother kept a list of the reasons she confined me to the house on the hill, she'd have a length of paper that could stretch all the way down Pinnacle Lane and trail into the waters of the Puget Sound. It could choke passing sea life. It could flap in the wind like a giant white flag of surrender atop our house's widow's walk. — Leslye Walton

If language was given to men to conceal their thoughts, then gesture's purpose was to disclose them. — John Napier