The Wasteland Alan Paton Quotes & Sayings

Our A Company landed at 9:03 with 250 officers and men. By 2:00 o'clock that afternoon, we were down to 75. — Gail Chatfield

Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Writing a poem doubles, triples the experience or connection that initiated it. — Frances Mayes

Back in time it seemed that having a sister were a tragedy.
Instead it is one of the best presents my parents could have ever given me. — Sara Anzellotti

Songs are pretty easy. They are small, they are modular, they are about as big as a bagel. They are easy to build. Films are overwhelming in their magnitude and scope. By comparison, a lot of film directors wish they were writing songs because you can do it while getting your hair cut. — Tom Waits

It's fun playing small venues. — Tracy Chapman

It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words. — Eric Hoffer

Don't be too dismissive of children. While it's true that few children are artists, all artists are children. — Ned Rorem

We have a thousand points of light for the homeless man. We've got a kinder gentler machine gun hand. — Neil Young

The markets were now run by technology, but the technologists were still treated like tools. Nobody bothered to explain the business to them, but they were forced to adapt to its demands and exposed to its failures - which was, perhaps, why there had been so many more conspicuous failures. — Michael Lewis

Here in the sub-Sahara, it seemed that the weaker people were, the harder they had to lean on God - and the harder they leaned on him, the greater their joy. — Joni Eareckson Tada

It's hard to imagine which is worse, living with fear, or living without it in a fantasyland were consequences don't exist. — Brooke Hauser

My name was in the wind, and the wind was high above the snowbound city. There was no difference between the sound of my name and the sound of the wind. I was in the wind and the wind was in me, and beneath us were the crystalline haloes of golden light wrapped about the streetlamps, and the muffled plops of snow falling from eaves, and the dry rattles of the dead leaves clinging to the indifferent boughs. — Rick Yancey

Be an advocate of love and kindness. — Debasish Mridha

Our moral decisions about ourselves can be spiritual. Our moral decisions about other people can only be practical. — Andrew Klavan