Queenie Small Island Quotes & Sayings

Interviewer: What would you say to a woman in this country who assumes she is no longer oppressed, who believes women's liberation has been achieved?
el Saadawi: Well I would think she is blind. Like many people who are blind to gender problems, to class problems, to international problems. She's blind to what's happening to her. — Nawal El Saadawi

Incandesce, v.: You are the light of the far-off town, the promise on the dark path. — David Levithan

We will only do with your money what we would do with our own. — Warren Buffett

Dreams come a couple sizes too big so you can grow into them. — Joseph Simmons

Folk who don't know why America is the Land of Promise should be here during an election campaign. — Milton Berle

Any two people can set and jaw all day long, but it takes two people right for each other to set together and just be quiet. — Silas House

I am as sure as I am of the fact of Christ's reign, that a comprehensive and centralised system of national education, separated from religion, as is now commonly proposed, will prove the most appalling enginery for the propagation of anti-Christian and atheistic unbelief and of anti-social nihilistic ethics, social and political, which this sin-rent world has ever seen. — Archibald Alexander Hodge

For the longest time I was afraid I'd have to keep on working at the factories. There was a steel mill and a pottery; if you didn't go to college, you went to work in those places. — Daniel Johnston

It doesn't matter who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it only matters that you love! — John Lennon

I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net. — Jon Postel

12 The one who has the Son has life. The one who doesn't have the Son of God does not have life. — Anonymous

Let go of rousing speech
and identification with thoughts
Until your end
you will never be jaded — Lao-Tzu

And so we stayed out in the garden of the old house until we couldn't kick a ball, laughing in the gathering twilight, making the most of the good weather and all the days that were left, our little game watched only by next door's cat, and every star in the heavens. — Tony Parsons

There isn't any question about Washington's greatness. If his administration had been a failure, there would have been no United States. A lesser man couldn't have done it ... Washington was both a great administrator and a great leader, a truly great man in every way. — Harry S. Truman