Whale Rider Famous Quotes & Sayings

The only thing worse than having a family, I discovered, is not having a family. My rejection of bourgeois virtues as mean-spirited and antithetical to real human development could not long survive contact with situations in which those virtues were entirely absent; and a rejection of everything associated with one's childhood is not so much an escape from that childhood as an imprisonment by it. — Theodore Dalrymple

Leadership defined: An equal and dual commitment to both results and relationships without compromising one for the other. — Al Ritter

Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own. — Naomi Shihab Nye

I ripped a tissue out of the box as if it had personally offended me, which it did. Fucking tissue. — C.D. Reiss

It's a miserable story!" said Bruno. "It begins miserably, and it ends miserablier. I think I shall cry. Sylvie, please lend me your handkerchief."
"I haven't got it with me," Sylvie whispered.
"Then I won't cry," said Bruno manfully. — Lewis Carroll

It appears that nutrient exchange and helping neighbors in times of need is the rule, and this leads to the conclusion that forests are superorganisms with interconnections much like ant colonies. — Peter Wohlleben

Surround yourself with positive people and you'll be a positive person. — Kellie Pickler