Swinnea Road Quotes & Sayings

Peace is a stranger to the rigid mind. Peace is a guest of the flexible heart. — Sri Chinmoy

Any blockhead can arrange a sublet. All I ever wanted was to support myself on art. — Walter Keane

Everyone thinks their mom is a superhero, and l feel like I want to be just like my mom. A superhero. She's a very strong lady. — Rita Ora

Learn from the negative as well as the positive, from the failures as well as the successes. — Jim Rohn

Our first duty is not to be poor. — George Bernard Shaw

Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things. — Arundhati Roy

Peasant families ate pork, beef, or game only a few times a year; fowls and eggs were eaten far more often. Milk, butter, and hard cheeses were too expensive for the average peasant. As for vegetables, the most common were cabbage and watercress. Wild carrots were also popular in some places. Parsnips became widespread by the sixteenth century, and German writings from the mid-1500s indicate that beet roots were a preferred food there. Rutabagas were developed during the Middle Ages by crossing turnips with cabbage, and monastic gardens were known for their asparagus and artichokes. However, as a New World vegetable, the potato was not introduced into Europe until the late 1500s or early 1600s, and for a long time it was thought to be merely a decorative plant.

"Most people ate only two meals a day. In most places, water was not the normal beverage. In Italy and France people drank wine, in Germany and England ale or beer. — Patricia D. Netzley

We are all afraid of something. But that shouldn't stop us from going on every day. We should not always walk in fear of the shadow while we are in the light. It is certain we will not know when or how the difficult and bad times will come, but if we accept that they will come, then they are easier to face when they do. And always remember that anything that causes the shadow is smaller than the source of light. — Joseph M. Marshall III

I never, in all my life, had anything whatever to do with robbing any bank in the state of Missouri. — Cole Younger

To many among us neither heaven nor earth has any revelation till some personality touches theirs with a particular influence, subduing them into receptiveness. — George Eliot

A man is not a tree' ... If we remain where we start from we will neither grow nor flourish. — June Jordan

Forcing yourself to use restricted means is the sort of restraint that liberates invention. It obliges you to make a kind of progress that you can't even imagine in advance. — Pablo Picasso

Pour the bulk of your time into action, not deciding. The state of indecision is a major time waster. Don't spend more than 60 seconds in that state if you can avoid it. Make a firm, immediate decision, and move from uncertainty to certainty to action. Let the world tell you when you're wrong, and you'll soon build enough experience to make accurate, intelligent decisions. — Steve Pavlina

If a person has no dreams, they no longer have any reason to live. Dreaming is necessary, although in the dream reality should be glimpsed. For me this is a principle of life. — Ayrton Senna

I chalk up the fact that I got diabetes to my body saying, 'Dude, you have been doing wrong for way too long!' — Randy Jackson