Shanika Warren Markland Quotes & Sayings

Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own identity. — John Ciardi

Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a place to start. — Robert Morgan

Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never, never allows us to forget that we belong to it. — Ovid

Don't make promises unless you will keep them. Not plan to keep them. Will keep them. Reliability is one of the keys to any good relationship, and good customer service is no exception. — Susan Ward

Never confuse being righteous vs. being arrogant. An arrogant person will see a person lashing out because they were hurt by them and they will not try to mend the situation or even understand their point of view. They take the superior viewpoint that others are not worthy of their time because they believe they are right and those angry with them are wrong. A righteous person doesn't care who is right or wrong. God asked them to love everyone. They make their life about leaving people in peace, not pain. — Shannon L. Alder

Everyone thinks I'm this jock of a woman, but I didn't play any sports. I didn't even let my kids play baseball because I was afraid they were going to get hit by balls. — Patti Hansen

All reviews should carry a Surgeon General's warning. The good ones turn your head, the bad ones break your heart. — David Ives

Be prepared to appreciate what you meet. — Frank Herbert

The inspection of these chasms brought him a second pulsation of that old horror which he had used to describe to Viviette as produced in him by bottomlessness in the north heaven. The ghostly finger of limitless vacancy touched him now on the other side. — Thomas Hardy

A friend told me the longer you keep Romano cheese, the better it gets. So, I kept it three years. And this thing turned mean. Now and then I'd open the refrigerator door and throw it some food. I'd have to walk it now and then. And then it grew this one leg. And it's got this ugly fuzz all over it. And the dogs won't run with it. — Phyllis Diller

There are two lessons here: First, weather, climate, and climate change matter - but not nearly as much as they used to, thanks to technology. Climate livability is not just a matter of the state of the global climate system, but also of the technology (or lack thereof) that we have available to deal with any given climate. Second, having that technology is useless unless we have the energy to run it. — Alex J. Epstein

Isolation is a way to know ourselves — Franz Kafka