Waterproofin Quotes & Sayings

My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves. — Aung San Suu Kyi

Too many people learn about war with no inconvenience to themselves. They read about Verdun or Stalingrad without comprehension, sitting in a comfortable armchair, with their feet beside the fire, preparing to go about their business the next day, as usual.
One should really read such accounts under compulsion, in discomfort, considering oneself fortunate not to be describing the events in a letter home, writing from a hole in the mud. One should read about war in the worst circumstances, when everything is going badly, remembering that the torments of peace are trivial, and not worth any white hairs. Nothing is really serious in the tranquility of peace; only an idiot could be really disturbed by a question of salary.
One should read about war standing up, late at night, when one is tired, as I am writing about it now, at dawn, while my asthma attack wears off. And even now, in my sleepless exhaustion, how gentle and easy peace seems! — Guy Sajer

I was born to be a teacher, and I'll die a teacher. — Jacques Parizeau

If something stinks, I say it stinks. But I try to massage it a little and not be as cutting, come behind it with a joke: Hey, I cut you deep, but now let me put a couple of stitches in you. — Wanda Sykes

When I was younger, shopping helped me discover many new places and many new things. — Miuccia Prada

Happy people do a great deal for their friends. — Willa Cather

It looked like the kind of place where people were shot over the rent money. — Amy Stewart

The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America. — Madeleine Albright

We humans are more concerned with having than with being. — Morgan Freeman

A well-spent day brings happy sleep — Leonardo Da Vinci

Happiness is free, Mama says, as sure as the blinkin' stars, the withered arms the trees throw down for our fires, the waterproofin' on our skin, and the tongues of wind curlin' the walnut leaves before slidin' down our ears. — Emily Murdoch