Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Raphael Quotes & Sayings

To defend oneself against a fear is simply to insure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced. — James A. Baldwin

Peace can be promoted by the limitation of arms and by the creation of the instrumentality for peaceful settlement of controversies. But it will become a reality only through self-restraint and active effort in friendliness and helpfulness. — Herbert Hoover

As a consequence, geneticists described evolution simply as a change in gene frequencies in populations, totally ignoring the fact that evolution consists of the two simultaneous but quite separate phenomena of adaptation and diversification. — Ernst Mayr

We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable. — Constance Baker Motley

It's really sad that Wonder Woman is, she's really a slave. She belongs to DC. She's not a living person. And so she's at their mercy, and she's at the mercy of whoever writes her and whoever draws her. — Trina Robbins

I used to have two brown-coloured cats, who were brother and sister, called Bonzo and Bonzetta. — Mini Grey

Treat every Frenchman as if he was the devil himself. — Horatio Nelson

By the time your perfect information has been gathered, the world has moved on. — Phil Dourado

Berger's eyes narrowed. She turned ice-cold. She had had enough of the word whore. — Stieg Larsson

Predating the Internet and predating videos, you had an active imagination. You would hear sounds and then get mental pictures of what these sounds felt like to you. It engaged you and made you more invested in it. It made you want to get tickets to the show, buy the album, put the poster on the wall. Now it's sensory overload. — Q-Tip

I'd begun to grow weary of my constant daydreaming because, as I retreated more often into fantasy, it had become a reminder of my growing discontent with real life. And my thoughts, after very little sleep, seemed to float even further into the realm of the superfluous. — Nick Miller

I like shelves full of books in a library, but if all books become electronic, the task of big research libraries remains the same - keep what's published in the form in which it appeared. — Nicholson Baker

Do you know about the Turtle?" She said turtle in a way that made it sound like a proper noun. I thought of saying I know about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and didn't. It was decades too early for Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michelangelo. So I just shook my head. She — Stephen King

If we throw ourselves open to God, He will reveal. The trouble comes when we have closed areas, locked and barred places in our hearts, where we think, with pride, that we are right. — Watchman Nee

Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights and realizations. Mythologies are not invented; they are found. You can no more tell us what your dream is going to be tonight than we can invent a myth. Myths come from the mystical region of essential experience. — Joseph Campbell

From my teenage years on, I sought out Native elders from many tribal nations and listened to their words. I also started a small press, The Greenfield Review Press, and became very involved with publishing the work of other American Indian authors, especially books of poetry. — Joseph Bruchac