Swamy Songs Quotes & Sayings

When you ask your white friends what their cultural heritage is, they don't just say white. They give you a math equation. 'Well, I'm a third German and a fourth Irish and one-sixteenth Welsh and one-fortieth Native American for college applications.' — Hari Kondabolu

Because we want to be inwardly secure, we are constantly seeking methods and means for this security, and thereby we create authority, the worship of another, which destroys comprehension, that spontaneous tranquility of mind in which alone there can be a state of creativeness. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

For poise, I picked up a stone and threw it at a tree. — J.D. Salinger

I kept hearing I'd be traded to San Francisco. Man I would love that. I even went so far as to go into the locker room singing 'I left my heart in San Francisco'. Nobody laughed or said a word. I figured maybe I'd get my wish — Terry Bradshaw

It's a blindness thing, faith. — Niall Williams

I play my king all over the board. I make him fight! — Wilhelm Steinitz

Never speak of marriage as an achievement. Find ways to make clear to her that marriage is not an achievement, nor is it what she should aspire to. A marriage can be happy or unhappy, but it is not an achievement. We condition girls to aspire to marriage and we do not condition boys to aspire to marriage, and so there is already a terrible imbalance at the start. The girls will grow up to be women preoccupied with marriage. The boys will grow up to be men who are not preoccupied with marriage. The women marry those men. The relationship is automatically uneven because the institution matters more to one than the other. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A ghra. A amhain. My love. My only. — Nora Roberts

I literally believe that when it comes to Education, the fate of the rectification & preservation of Science is in the hands of the American children; if we want to see Science flourishes worldwide, we must invest more in those kids. — Ibrahim Ibrahim

All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use. — Jared Diamond

My mother and I were on welfare and food stamps until I was 18, so I've always had this ethos of, like, 'try and make a little bit of money now because you don't know what's going to happen tomorrow.' — Moby