Sunderlin Park Quotes & Sayings

There is a special grief felt by the children and grandchildren of those who were forbidden to read, forbidden to question or to know. — Alice Walker

Being an American is such a rich environment, because there's so many people from other countries and cultures, and through that you're able to see other people's experiences. — Rick Yune

We have a thousand machines for making war but none for making peace. We have computers and iPhone apps that can make millions out of a tiny change in exchange rates, but none that can rescue the poorest countries from their plight. We know how to make Internet pornography, but not how to repair marriages. The very objectivity or neutrality of scientific knowledge as commonly conceived has played into the hands of the gods we secretly worship. — N. T. Wright

Thus we must advance from generalities to particulars; for it is a whole that is best known to sense-perception, (25) and a generality is a kind of whole, comprehending many things within it, like parts. — Aristotle.

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Until I began sitting, it had never occurred to me that one could learn, with practice, to distinguish between attention, or awareness, and its objects. But just this is the central and most basic technique of meditation in all the yogic traditions of India, first described some 2,500 years ago in the Upanishads. In those ancient texts, the meditator is instructed to observe literally every element of experience from afar, to simply bear witness to anything and everything that arises and passes away before the mind's eye. That's it. Just sit there, without moving, and watch, allowing the focal point of identity to shift from the — C.W. Huntington Jr.

People ask me why I work so hard and why I have this compassion to reach the top and be great. I respond by telling them, "I work insanely hard because people said I couldn't do it." When someone tells me I can't do something, or that I'll never achieve my goals and visions, I am determined to prove them wrong. — Robert Cheeke

When I got to the Mavericks people were all giving me advice - change this, change that - and one thing that I didn't do was fire anybody. — Mark Cuban

I want a guy who's going to be accepting of - one, my big 'ol, loud Mexican family - and also my career, because it's a lot. I don't want someone who's like ... 'Oh, you don't have time for me'. Like, I want somebody who's sure of himself and gonna be like, 'Okay, you go do your thing, and when you come back, we're good.' — Becky G

Decorators never quite saw the point of massing books. Books brought colour to a room and filled it up, but shelves bearing just one thing struck them as a decorative display opportunity tragically lost. — Peter York

I think of myself as a problem-solver. I want to go in and help the director and the writer to get the best they can out of the text they're working with. — Michael Emerson

There will always be a easy path and a right path. — J.K. Rowling

Time to toss the dice — Robert Jordan

No parent ought to punish a child except with a view to the child's good. And in order to do good to a child through his punishment, a parent must religiously refrain from punishing him while angry. — Henry Clay Trumbull