Proud Islander Quotes & Sayings

41 Mishnah Avot 3.23. 4 The compilation of the Talmud Rabbi Tarfon said, The day is short and there is much work, the workman are lazy but the wages are high, and the master of the house is pressing.1 The academies in Babylon — Harry Freedman

As a Chinese American legislator, I applaud the RNC's Growth and Opportunity Project. Engaging Asian American and Pacific Islander communities about Republican principles is a worthwhile effort. I thank Chairman Priebus and Co-Chairman Day for making this a priority. We need to ensure our message of growth and opportunity is being heard in all communities throughout this nation, and I am proud to be a part of this effort. — Kimberly Yee

On a good day I write, all day. — Nick Flynn

Shave that jaw, brush that hair, tone down the crazy in the eyes, and he would have to fight women off with that crossbow. — Ilona Andrews

Of course there are people who would like to eat breakfast without the screams of toddlers all around them, but those people should get over themselves and stop being stuck up and idiotic. — Jon Ronson

Condoms will break, but I can assure you that vows of abstinence will break more easily than condoms. — Joycelyn Elders

The week passed by swiftly, like a dream ... a dream where minutes flew as rapidly as heartbeats. Such a breathless week when something within her drove Scarlett with mingled pain and pleasure to pack and cram every minute with incidents to remember after he was gone, happenings which she could examine at leisure in the long months ahead, extracting every morsel of comfort from them - dance, sing, laugh, fetch and carry for Ashley, anticipate his wants, smile when he smiles, be silent when he talks, follow him with your eyes so that each line of his erect body, each lift of his eyebrows, each quirk of his mouth, will be indelibly printed on your mind - for a week goes by so fast and the war goes on forever. — Margaret Mitchell

New York ... Babylon-on-the-Hudson, sinful, extravagant, full of the nervous hilarity of the doomed. — Lucius Beebe

It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion. — C.S. Lewis

I did go bankrupt because everybody copied me - every single industry. But genuinely, it doesn't matter. I swear I don't care. — Maripol

When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh? — Max Frisch

If ever you should doubt me or that these are my words, call my name. With nothing save Love and Joy and Grace, call my name, and i will be there, as indeed i always am, and ask me. "Then, like the lovely trill of the whippoorwill, the murmur of the stream, the call of the sweetest breeze, if you listen closely, you will hear my voice, confirming all you have felt and read and seen to be true. — Pietro De La Luna

Our present predicament comes from the fact that running the economy on blood is no longer fashionable. We can't end this depression with another war. — Louis O. Kelso

I learned that accepting others and accepting myself are two sides of the same coin; you can't love and accept yourself without doing the same for others. — Steve Pavlina

Lose the pessimism, Ms. Lane. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. — Karen Marie Moning

Who are we but the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, and believe? — Scott Turow