Trethewey South Quotes & Sayings

I know this much about racing in the rain. I know it is about balance. It is about anticipation and patience ... [it is also] about the mind! It is about owning one's body ... It is about believing that you are not you; you are everything. And everything is you. — Garth Stein

I get very caught up with things. I used to be dominated by domestic things. I had a lovely house in LA-and it became this growing, mad obsession. — Kyle MacLachlan

We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun. — William Glasser

For the Eye altering alters all;
The Senses roll themselves in fear
And the flat Earth becomes a Ball. — William Blake

Are we the only members of the Galaxy that can actually understand what a galaxy is? Could Homo sapiens really be the pinnacle of Creation - the cleverest critters in the cosmos? If we learn the answer is 'no,' that would affect our philosophies forever. — Seth Shostak

Wisdom isn't an old guy on top of a mountain in a loin cloth. It isn't an answer. It's a question. — Billy Connolly

See that each hour's feelings, and thoughts and actions are pure and true; then your life will be also. — Henry Ward Beecher

Stay away from that guy. He looks like a career criminal. — Holly Hood

The United States of America - once great, grand and free - is on the path to becoming just another country. — Monica Crowley

I was always very aware of the nature of the place where I was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, how that place was shaping my experience of the world. I had to go to the Northeast for graduate school because I felt like I had to get far away from my South, be outside it, to understand it. — Natasha Trethewey

I had a brilliant drama teacher while I was at Roland Park: Ann Mainolfi. But the school was mostly rich in academics. It wasn't like I was prepping myself for a life in acting. There, you prepped yourself to have a stable future. The school's piece de resistance is college prep - it didn't teach you how to audition for a TV show. — Nicole Ari Parker

I think often people don't realize the great diversity of Southern writing because in their minds, if you're not from the South, it can seem regional and small, and of course that's not the case at all when you start to read the work. — Natasha Trethewey