Wandjina Aliens Quotes & Sayings

All my life I've been surrounded by people who are smarter than I am, but I found I could always keep up by working hard. — Glenn T. Seaborg

I mean I know it's cold out here and not everybody has a sleeping bag. But when you grit your teeth and stick it out until dawn! — Suzanne Collins

There's a passage in John Steinbeck's "East of Eden" that does a pretty good job describing California's rainfall patterns:

The water came in a 30-year cycle. There would be five to six wet and wonderful years when there might be 19 to 25 inches of rain, and the land would shout with grass. Then would come six or seven pretty good years of 12 to 16 inches of rain. And then the dry years would come ... — John Steinbeck

You're not a hypocrite. You aim toward lofty heights. The fact that your arrow cannot always reach them does not make you a hypocrite. — Harlan Coben

No, you aren't sorry. You are a representative of your country. And countries do not feel sorrow. — Robert Jackson Bennett

But I guess that's the way it is. When you lose something irreplaceable, you don't mourn for the thing you lost. you mourn for yourself. — Harpo Marx

The people playing on these songs are from Wisconsin and Illinois and Chicago and St. Louis and there's a certain attitude that comes across in the songs and the way that they're performed. I'm born and raised in the Midwest, and my family's been here for generations. This is where I'm from and how I think, and that's reflected in the music I make. — Pokey LaFarge

What horrifies me most about war memorials is that no anti-war sentiments are ever displayed. It's as if war is fun or noble, when actually it's all about shit and snot and blood and guts and soldiers stomachs hanging out and people with their faces blown off. But they never showed that side of it. Perhaps, if they did, there'd be less of it. — Billy Connolly

The question is not Will you succeed? but rather, Will you matter? — Seth Godin

Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth. — Sophocles

Did you just roll your eyes at me?"
"Yes, I did and you better get used to it if you're going to say stupid things. — Jennifer Loren

In the end, the women can be very rebellious, and very capable and all of that, but if she depends on a man economically, she has few possibilities. — Subcomandante Marcos

Somewhere there is an essence. It is not a physical somewhere. There is no sense of world, of time and space. That is nirvana. — Frederick Lenz

A diet rich in fruits and vegetables plays a role in reducing the risk of all the major causes of illness and death — Walter Willett

You could try and understand people, you could read books and understand words and concepts and ideas, but you could never understand enough or have enough knowledge to keep away the surprises that both fate and human beings had in store. — Deb Caletti