Tracy Beaker Funny Quotes & Sayings

Change in the societies at the very bottom must come predominantly from within; we cannot impose it on them. — Paul Collier

Meditation is that exercise of the mind by which it recalls a known truth, as some kind of creatures do their food, to be ruminated upon till all the valuable parts be extracted. — George Horne

The life that I live and the experiences that I have always affect what comes out of me creatively. I think that's what makes music real. — Josh Turner

The spectacle of nature, by growing quite familiar to him, becomes at last equally indifferent. It is constantly the same order, constantly the same revolutions; he has not sense enough to feel surprise at the sight of the greatest wonders; and it is not in his mind we must look for that philosophy, which man must have to know how to observe once, what he has every day seen. Jean Jacques Rousseau, On the Inequality among Mankind, Ch. 1, 20. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Isn't it strange how life is always taking you to places and to people you're supposed to see and meet?" "You — Mark T. Sullivan

One either absorbs the grammatical principles of one's native language in conversation and in reading or one does not. What Sophomore English does (or tries to do) is little more than the naming of parts. — Stephen King

What you fill your days with, fills your days. — Marty Rubin

It's been a pleasure, she-wolf.' He climbed out of the jeep before I could hit him. — Andrea Cremer

Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. Jesus always seems to be pairing God's forgiveness of us with our forgiveness of others. But why? Growing up, I thought it was a way of guilting us into forgiving others, like Jesus was saying, Hey, I died for you and you can't even be nice to your little brother? As though God can get us to do the right thing if God can just make us feel bad about how much we owe God. But that is not the God I see in Jesus Christ. That is a manipulative mother. — Nadia Bolz-Weber

The great would not think themselves demigods if the little did not worship them. — Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste

Git an eyeful of cesspool alley the land of opportunity. — John Dos Passos

My work is largely concerned
with relations between
seeing and knowing,
seeing and saying,
seeing and believing. — Jasper Johns

I wish I had a nickel for every song that I've left in the bathroom, written down on a matchbox, or just totally forgotten about. — Tommy Shaw

One of the most radical and revolutionary things you can do is grow your own food and eat from the land. — Bryant McGill