Revitalization Movement Quotes & Sayings

Leading fools is like leading no one.
Following a fool is like following no one.
The wise make the best leaders and followers. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Religion in Chinatown, as in most places, is based less on a cogent theology and more on a collection of random fears, superstitions, prejudices, forgotten customs, vestigial animism, and social control. Mrs. Ling, while a professed Buddhist of the Pure Land tradition, also kept waving cat charms, lucky coins, and put great faith in the good fortune of the color red ... and was very much in favor of any tradition, superstition, or ritual that involved fireworks ... — Christopher Moore

I was homeless and I was in San Diego and I started singing in a local coffee shop and people started coming to hear me sing. — Jewel

The Human tendency, largely driven by ego, is to believe we can do it all ... It maybe humbling to admit there are only a few things you do really well ... you will free yourself to focus on those things which will lead to greater personal success and significance. — Bob Buford

It is a function of poetry to locate those zones inside us that would be free, and declare them so. — C.D. Wright

Here is thy footstool and there rest thy feet where live the poorest, and lowliest, and lost.
When I try to bow to thee, my obeisance cannot reach down to the depth where thy feet rest among the poorest, and lowliest, and lost.
Pride can never approach to where thou walkest in the clothes of the humble among the poorest, and lowliest, and lost.
My heart can never find its way to where thou keepest company with the companionless among the poorest, the lowliest, and the lost. — Rabindranath Tagore

I'm working harder than I have ever worked in my entire life, but what the hell, my life is my job now, and my job is my life and that's the way it should be. — Chuck Palahniuk

Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't. — Stephen King