Queensbridge Quotes & Sayings

It is not. Mom loves me, and she would not leave me without any explanation.
And then her father began to cry. — Sharon Creech

You cannot barter security for freedom, or freedom for security. — Helen Gahagan Douglas

Violence among boys is so valorized and so encouraged that you have to do things different in violence prevention with boys than with girls. — Meda Chesney-Lind

So you think that hip-hop had it's start out in Queensbridge, If you popped that junk up in the Bronx you might not live. — KRS-One

I like everything in my room has to be in order. If there's a wrinkle in the comforter, I'm stretching it out. But this is only when it comes to my room. Outside of there, I'm not as intense. — Jacob Latimore

I got problems, can't sleep at night. Cause your girl wanna come around and freak all night. — Mac Miller

Win or lose, the crows always laughed
the hard, old jaded laughter that came of looking at the world with a black and practiced eye. From the less skillful the laugh might have hinted of despair, or silliness, like the magpies', but the crows were masters of the wry outlook, and Viv never heard them but what she followed their expert lead and laughed along
they knew the secret of black, that it could not be made blacker, and if neither could it be made lighter, it could still be made funnier. — Ken Kesey

Slow down and self-edit and ask yourself the three things you must always ask yourself before you say anything: "Does this need to be said?" "Does this need to be said by me?" "Does this need to be said by me now?" — Craig Ferguson

One of my favourites is 'American Beauty.' Spacey is so good in that. — Christopher Mintz-Plasse

You are the driver of your mind, so take charge and keep it busy with your instructions by telling it where you want it to go. Your mind only takes off on its own if you are not telling it what to do. — Rhonda Byrne

It takes all kinds to make a world go round. — Trent Shelton

Like a shipwreck or a jetty, almost anything that forms a structure in the ocean, whether it is natural or artificial over time, collects life. — Sylvia Earle

His eyes moved over me, but hovered mostly on my face. That was almost worse. Who am I without this? I thought. Without the seduction I wear like armor, without my bravado and cocksure confidence? Am I really just a little girl under it all? — Leah Raeder

The insistent drums were an unwelcome reminder of the existence of another world, wholly autonomous, with its own necessities and patterns. The message they were beating out, over and over, was for her; it was saying, not precisely that she did not exist but rather that it did not matter whether she existed or not, that her presence was of no consequence to the rest of the cosmos. It was a sensation that suddenly paralyzed her with dread. There had never been any question of her "mattering"; it went without saying that she mattered, because she was important to herself. But what was the part of her to which she mattered? — Paul Bowles

The future never just happened. It was created. — Mae Jemison

Why you white man have so much cargo and we New Guineans have so little? (asked Yali) — Jared Diamond