Thummarukudy Quotes & Sayings

I have a deep connection with Mahatma Gandhi, partly because my mother was a very, very staunch Gandhian and brought us up that way. When I was six years old, and all the girls were getting nylon dresses, I was very keen to get a nylon frock for my birthday. My mother said, "I can get it for you, but would you rather-through how you live and what you wear and what you eat-ensure that food goes into the hands of the weaver or ensure that profits go into the bank of an industrialist?" That became such a checkstone for everything in life. — Vandana Shiva

Cynics are simply thwarted romantics. — William Goldman

Be like the Sun; it is too great to retaliate when small men throw stones at it. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Cultures that don't laugh at themselves are cults. — Paul Buchheit

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse. — Rebecca West

I'm really happy with where I am, the movies in my life. Not satisfied, necessarily. But I won't put it on somebody else, blame anybody else for my position in the business. It's the choices I have made. — Giovanni Ribisi

I was heavily into sport from 10 to 15, I was in all the teams, and it was everything to me. But I was very young for my school year and when puberty kicked in for my classmates I got left behind. — Ben Barnes

It's very important for me to try to relax when I'm travelling, and playing my flute helps me to unwind. — Andrea Bocelli

Asymmetrical relationships never work. — David Amerland

Industrialism is the religion with 'the machine' as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects. — Dora Russell

Self-justification is a verbal defense for restoring the appearance of righteousness without doing anything about the substance. — Eugene H. Peterson

Once we get used to listening to our dreams, our whole body responds like a musical instrument. — Marion Woodman

If you're well-known, you're at the risk of becoming your own character. When you're alone, as a writer, you have to be unknown, putting it all on the paper. — Antonio Munoz Molina

The song is about asserting yourself and reclaiming your humanity through an act of love. — Hozier

Goodness needeth not to enter into the soul, for it is there already, only it is unperceived. Theologia Germanica — Aldous Huxley