Piersma Carl Quotes & Sayings

Every day in the United States, seventeen children are killed by gunfire. That's about 6,000 children each year who are killed by guns, as compared, for example, with about 3,000 a year who died at the height of the polio epidemic of the 1950s. We rose up as a society to fight against polio. Why do we not act more forcefully to halt today's even greater scourge? — Jimmy Carter

I'm a fisherman who likes to observe and tell yarns, and so I told stories about things that I knew about. — John D. Voelker

That's a voice that arrives on a chariot drawn by dragons — Rainbow Rowell

I wish I wasn't famous. I wish I was still in school
So that I could have you in my dorm room, how I'd put it on you — Drake

It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf. — Christopher Dodd

FOR TREES THAT LIVE in the snow, winter is a journey. Plants do not travel through — Hope Jahren

I think you assume everyone is going to be your enemy. And by doing that, you sort of make it come true. — Jeff Garvin

I eat ice cream. It's better than booze. — Del Shannon

The Board needs to extend its insight and innovation lens via cognitive difference. — Pearl Zhu

A special spark rises
from the sorrow of a burning heart.
Have you ever heard
how the sigh of a broken heart
touches the Beloved? — Rumi

Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future. — Paulo Freire