Steffond Cone Quotes & Sayings

When I was a teenager, black pride became newly popular again. Suddenly a lot of black people were wearing the fake kente cloth and red black and green and Bob Marley. That was sort of my window into finding my own identity as a black person. — W. Kamau Bell

When we can play with the unself-conscious concentration of a child, this is: art: prayer: love. — Madeleine L'Engle

Mademoiselle St. Pierre always presided at M. Emanuel's lessons, and I was told that the polish of her manner, her seeming attention, her tact and grace, impressed that gentleman very favourably. — Charlotte Bronte

I would say that in my scientific and philosophical work, my main concern has been with understanding the nature of reality in general and of consciousness in particular as a coherent whole, which is never static or complete but which is an unending process of movement and unfoldment ... — David

I am trying to get at the moral arguments and the ethical status of various attempts at enhancement, or genetic engineering, or the bid for designer children. But there are implications for society at large. — Michael Sandel

Surely your gladness need not be the less for the thought that you will one day see a brighter dawn than this. — Lewis Carroll

Success is how you collect your minutes. You spend millions of minutes to reach one triumph, one moment, then you spend maybe a thousand minutes enjoying it. If you were unhappy through those millions of minutes, what good is the thousand minutes of triumph? It doesn't equate ... Life is made of small pleasures. Good eye contact over the breakfast table with your wife. A moment of touching a friend. Happiness is made of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. If you don't have all those zillions of tiny successes, the big ones don't mean anything. — Norman Lear

Amin hid nothing. Everybody knew everything. Yet the American Senate only introduced a resolution breaking off trade with Amin three months before his overthrow. — Ryszard Kapuscinski

Over the years, I'll admit, I lost the love for basketball a little bit. — Stephon Marbury

The earth without art is just eh. — Demetri Martin

One of the most useful parts of my education as a writer was the practice of reading a writer straight through - every book the writer published, in chronological order, to see how the writer changed over time, and to see how the writer's idea of his or her project changed over time, and to see all the writer tried and accomplished or failed to accomplish. — Kyle Minor

Chicken's good. I like chicken. — Paul Kersey

I have a father who was the first black student at his junior high and high school and had to do a lot to get to that point. — Solange Knowles

My mom always used to say, "You can't say I love you before you can say I." And I think that sort of makes sense. — Mindy Kaling

The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind. — John Burroughs