Torry Island Quotes & Sayings

Since the songs were written over a five-year period, I think these are little snapshots. Some people call it political or topical, but I think each song is self-contained. I think it fits together as a picture of the last half-decade of time. — Conor Oberst

I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them. — Tommy Douglas

We must often remember what Christ said, that not he who begins, but he that perseveres to the end, shall be saved. — Philip Neri

Averages ... seduce us away from minute observation. — Florence Nightingale

If you go through any culture that has had wars, go to the bomb shelters, and you'll hear some amazing stories. Yes, it's a necessary thing that we actually both distract ourselves and it's a way to bond. — Rabih Alameddine

Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections. — Tony Campolo

I live with all these people, I live with four people that are involved with my music and I call 'em my team and that's what we call GoodLife ... — SonReal

Yeah, I associate every sound with a color and vice versa. — Dev Hynes

It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two. — Major Owens

An important distinction needs to be made in politics between allowing your values to guide you and keeping religion and government separate. Liberals are rightly concerned about government-established and government-supported religion, especially in our religiously polyglot society. But their unwillingness to engage on policy at the level of transcendent and timeless values, for fear of something too moralistic or religious, yields too much ground to the radical political right, which has come to claim Christianity in particular to advance a deeply non-Christian agenda. Theirs is a faith based on intolerance, a faith without compassion. Hating homosexuals and despising immigrants instead of hating poverty and despising homelessness seems to miss the point of a life of faithfulness. — Deval Patrick