Starbird Music Portland Quotes & Sayings

We are the shield that guards the realms of men. You do not throw away your shield for no good purpose. — George R R Martin

Monotheism occupies so large a space in the view of modern minds, that it is scarcely possible to form a just estimate of the preceding phases of the theological philosophy. — Auguste Comte

Traveling and other cultures provide me with great inspiration, especially unusual people and cultures totally unlike my own. They generate many new ideas for me. — Kansai Yamamoto

Economic justice is not just something blacks are crying out for; whites are desperate for it, too. But in the public imagination, the face of poverty is black. In all actuality, the face of poverty is white. — Darryl Pinckney

In making portraits, I refuse to photograph myself as do so many photographers. My style is the style of the people I photograph. — Lotte Jacobi

After all, there's only one aswer to be made to the young fellow who is asking constantly for advice as to how to hit. The answer is: Pick out a good one and sock it! — Babe Ruth

What took time for my mom was getting the pronouns right and calling me by a different name. Laverne was my middle name before I transitioned. — Laverne Cox

Suppose we as children are selfish by nature, judging our parents in the context not of their worlds and challenges but of our worlds and how they meet our needs. Even as we mature we rarely think of them as having been young like us. — Richard Paul Evans

Begin each day with positive affirmations. — Lailah Gifty Akita

So few people can think and talk at the same time. — Margery Wilson

I started to cry. And I looked up and saw the bleak pines by the bleak mills of Roanoke Rapids with one final despair, like the despair of a man who has nothing left to do but leave the earth forever. — Jack Kerouac

Some people cannot see a good thing when it is right here, right now. Others can sense a good thing coming when it is days, months, or miles away. — Maya Angelou

It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing. — Rita Dove

As I'm reading Katherine's historical diaries, every now and then I'll see a question that Katherine asked, like, 'Who is the Infanta?' or 'What is a simoleon?'" "In SimCity, a simoleon is money," Trey interjected. — Rysa Walker