Pinchot Institute Quotes & Sayings

If your leg is in a cast, it's really dumb to sit in front of your computer doing unnecessary stuff with it hanging down. Your leg will swell and heal slower, if at all. When you go to your doctor, he/she will give you one of those "you're really dumb and self destructive" looks. Also, "Why didn't you follow my orders and rest?" Your doctor will be right, and so will mine at my next office visit. Elevate, folk! Elevate your mind, your soul, and your leg, in the order needed! — Sandy Nathan

There are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them. Sometimes they gust with the fury of a hurricane, sometimes they barely fan one's cheek. But the winds cannot be denied, bringing as they often do a future that is impossible to ignore. — Nicholas Sparks

African Americans constituted only 15 percent of current drug users in 1995, and they constitute roughly the same percentage today. — Michelle Alexander

When people are healthy and not hungry, they are stronger workers building a robust economy. — Charles B. Rangel

Someone had definitely thrown down a glove. Jan was more than ready to pick it up and slap them with it. — Eve Langlais

If you took the city of Tokyo and turned it upside down and shook it you would be amazed at the animals that fall out: badgers, wolves, boa constrictors, crocodiles, ostriches, baboons, capybaras, wild boars, leopards, manatees, ruminants, in untold numbers. There is no doubt in my mind that that feral giraffes and feral hippos have been living in Tokyo for generations without seeing a soul. — Yann Martel

Lies beget lies," he said. "Until, one day, someone needs the truth." Palewski — Jason Goodwin

There is no joy nobler than suffering for the sake of love for man. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

Seeing the world through the eyes of a child is the purest joy that anyone can experience. — Constance Zimmer