Whitpain Tavern Quotes & Sayings

Graduation, the hush-hush magic time of frills and gifts and congratulations and diplomas, was finished for me before my name was called. The accomplishment was nothing. The meticulous maps, drawn in three colors of ink, learning and spelling decasyllabic words, memorizing the whole of The Rape of Lucrece - it was for nothing. Donleavy had exposed us.
We were maids and farmers, handymen and washerwomen, and anything higher that we aspired to was farcical and presumptuous. — Maya Angelou

Strictly speaking, one cannot legislate love, but what one can do is legislate fairness and justice. If legislation does not prohibit our living side by side, sooner or later your child will fall on the pavement and I'll be the one to pick her up. Or one of my children will not be able to get into the house and you'll have to say, "Stop here until your mom comes here." Legislation affords us the chance to see if we might love each other. — Maya Angelou

When I came back I joined a black church in Oakland and that made me feel more at home, a bit like being connected to India. It felt funny to be around so many white people when I came back to the United States. It still bothers me. One of the things I liked living in Hawaii years later was the racial complexity of it. I remember that at the time when Sucheng and I got married--we met as graduate students at Berkeley and have been married almost forty years--one of the first houses we bought was in a Black neighborhood in west Berkeley and we didn't quite notice how uniformly Black it was until some weeks later. I said to Sucheng, "You know, we're the only white people in this neighborhood." And she looked at me and said: "Speak for yourself, honkie! — Mark Juergensmeyer

An anomaly has his own ambitions. You can try reasoning with him, but that's like using money to bribe a beast. — Criss Jami

Thoughts are more alive than you are. Without thoughts, are you there? — Debasish Mridha

Delegation requires the willingness to pay for short term failures in order to gain long term competency. — Dave Ramsey

I learned about silence. But it was more than just a lack of noise - I experienced a great stillness. Staring at the ocean, walking in the forest, looking up at the stars - there was always noise and movement, but there was also stillness. — Jared Brock

We want what's in this world but we also want what ain't. — Ron Rash

If imitation is the greatest form of flattery,
Punk, don't flatter me. — J-Ro

I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed. — Alain De Botton

They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me. — Sophocles

I am not a dark person and I don't consider myself dark. — Tim Burton

Everything was elegant and cool, including Frederics, who was slicker than the path to hell. — Robert B. Parker

Everything, good or bad, was down to me. — Dorothy Koomson

I was the classic midfield organiser who could also score goals. — Michel Patini