Peck Of Dirt Before We Die Quotes & Sayings

Nobody can be angry and write a Hokku at the same time. Likewise, if you are crying, express your tears in seventeen syllables and you feel happy. No sooner are your thoughts down on paper, than all connection between you and the pain which caused you to cry is severed, and your only feeling is one of happiness that you are a man capable of shedding tears. — Soseki Natsume

I want to see the economy rebound. — Bob Corker

The Lord sees weaknesses differently than He does rebellion. — Richard G. Scott

I wanted to dedicate myself completely to the things that matter to me and let everything else go, and I think that's a really rewarding thing. — Tift Merritt

And that's all we are Jefferson, all of us on this earth, a piece of drifting wood. until we - each of us, individually- decide to become something else. I am still that piece of drifting wood, and those out there are no better. But you can be better. — Ernest Gaines

If the USA doesn't start learning how to put personal egos aside for the sustainability of a nation, then these "mighty" United States will be no better than the politically divided commonwealth of Puerto Rico. Where progress is slowed because each party thinks any idea from the other party must be stupid or without validity and Independence has become a distant dream squashed by corruption. I suggest politicians go back to kindergarten to learn the basics in decent humanity. The notions of sharing and respect obviously didn't stick the first time. — Cristina Marrero

There's a pervasive feeling that when somebody sings a song and records a song on a record, that it's their true feeling. — David Byrne