Quelana Quotes & Sayings

While not a musician, my father was a music agent for years before becoming pop culture icon Famous Amos. — Shawn Amos

They weren't great pictures, but they were fun, and they really represented that period of time well. — Frankie Avalon

How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers. — Edwin Way Teale

Deciding under uncertainty is bad enough, but deciding under an illusion of certainty is catastrophic. — Kenneth E. Boulding

When our laws tell people that what lies behind the thin wall of a women's abdomen during pregnancy is not a human being and that the destiny of a preborn child lies with the private conscience of the mother, we are essentially telling society that life itself is not important enough to be called an inalienable right. If life itself is not the most fundamental of all rights, then what is? — Bob Dornan

There is a certain shade of red brick
a dark, almost melodious red, sombre and riddled with blue
that is my childhood in St.Louis. Not the real childhood, but the false one that extends from the dawning of consciousness until the day that one leaves home for college. That one shade of red brick and green foliage is St. Louis in the summer (the winter is just a gray sky and a crowded school bus and the wet footprints on the brown linoleum floor at school), and that brick and a pale sky is spring. It's also loneliness and the queer, self-pitying wonder that children whose families are having catastrophes feel. — Harold Brodkey

Catching fish is secondary to the immeasurable joys of the watery world. — Fennel Hudson

ROM7.19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. — Anonymous

Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent. — Baltasar Gracian