Tonika Johnson Quotes & Sayings

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil. — Friedrich Nietzsche

And Egypt ? What is Egypt strenght?her resilience ?her ability to absorb poeple and events into the pores of her being? is that true or is it just a consolation ? a shifting of responsibility? and if it is true , how much can she absorb and still remain Egypt ? — Ahdaf Soueif

One of the problems of our society is that we spend too much time thinking about punishment and not enough about prevention. — Roy Hattersley

When I'm directing films, I mostly try to create an environment on set that mimics what's in my mind as to the tone and feel of things. I try to create a place where you feel that anything's possible. — Harmony Korine

I have chosen education as a bridge to understanding! — Teresa R. Kemp

Anyone who had died young after a happy childhood had won a great victory, since he would be forever spared the discovery of what sort of place the world really is. Others must look forward to death by defeat - their bodies gone, their world destroyed. — Carlos Baker

I thought I was making fifty dollars a week [at MGM], but it turned out to be $35 because twelve weeks of the year you were on layoff. It was white slavery, and it lasted for seventeen years. — Ava Gardner

Being a mom has changed me forever. — Ciara

One cannot conceive of grander burial than that which mighty mountains bend, crack and shatter to make. Or a nobler tomb than the great upper basin of Denali. — Hudson Stuck

In addition to innocence, we have to have knowledge of good and evil. — Frederick Lenz