Tekleab Haile Quotes & Sayings

The grace of God transforms the sinner into saint. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A canoe paddle is animate, because it causes something else to move. Even a humble onion has, in their view, a soul, since it causes action - pulling tears from the eyes. — Geraldine Brooks

With a whirl of thought oppressed
I sink from reverie to rest.
An horrid vision seized my head,
I saw the graves give up their dead. — Jonathan Swift

With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens. — Fannie Lou Hamer

He knew that all of them were shadows: the chanters, the dead, the living. All shadows, moving across this landscape of mountains and valleys, changing the pattern of things as they moved but leaving nothing changed when they left. Only the shadows themselves could change. — Karl Marlantes

Many confuse the United States with the Church or the Constitution with the Bible. They feel that the good of the United States is the same as the good of the Kingdom of God. Some feel that the Constitution of the United States is as infallible as the Bible. However, one with wisdom notice that some things are Kingdom principles and some are not. — Gayle D. Erwin

My career at Microsoft really was getting in the way of my cooking. — Nathan Myhrvold

American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook. — Hedy Lamarr

I just wanted a chance. You know. Like everyone else. — Janet Gurtler

Most kids would be like, 'My dad's never around.' But I saw it as a positive. He was out there working to provide for me. — Gilbert Arenas

Failure and success are not accidents, but the strictest justice. — Alexander Smith

The authoritarian child-rearing style so often found in working-class families stems in part from the fact that parents see aroundthem so many young people whose lives are touched by the pain and delinquency that so often accompanies a life of poverty. Therefore, these parents live in fear for their children's future
fear that they'll lose control, that the children will wind up on the streets or, worse yet, in jail. — Lillian B. Rubin