Xv Birthday Quotes & Sayings

We were told that they wished merely to pass through our country ... to seek for gold in the far west ... Yet before the ashes of the council are cold, the Great Father is building his forts among us ... His presence here is ... an insult to the spirits of our ancestors. Are we then to give up their sacred graves to be allowed for corn? — Red Cloud

We need to get a broader awareness. People say climate change is really bad, but painting that picture of what you're putting at risk. — Bill Gates

When historians get to write the truth about this completely unnecessary referendum [Brexit] they won't say it was a vote demanded by the British people to decide their national destiny. They will say it was the final battle in a decades-long Tory Civil War, at the heart of which was a fight to the death between two Old Etonians, David Cameron and Boris Johnson, for the hollow crown. A sort of Eton Wall Game. Where the poorest are put up against the wall and shot. — Brian Reade

It feels so good to be able to be part of an action flick like 'The Raid' and to read the rave reviews in a number of film festivals. — Joe Taslim

Gray skies are just clouds passing over. — Frank Gifford

Mick dislodges from me, and I let him go.
I've always been willing to release him. I never had a choice. — Marata Eros

The three pillars of development (economic, social and environmental) must be strengthened together. But it is evident that two of the pillars - economic and social - are subsidiary to, and underpinned by, the third: a vibrant global ecology. Neither dollars nor our species will out-survive our planet. The earth can survive happily without people or profit — Dave Hampton

Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment. Here we have the first internal inconsistency of contemporary atheism: it proclaims that all religion must necessarily vanish away, and it is itself a religious phenomenon. — Jacques Maritain

Your parents died. Your world fell apart."
I nod.
He puts his hand on my cheek. "You were left drowning"
I nod again.
"And you're struggling to breathe"
I am. It's a constant struggle to stay near the surface I have just enough air to stop me from going totally under, but not enough to thrive.
"So do it. Breathe. Just Breathe." He turns up the volume and strokes my hair. — Jessica Park

There are so many different walks of life, so many different personalities in the world. And no longer do you have to be a chameleon and try and adapt to that environment - you can truly be yourself. — Hope Solo

There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them. — Jean Cocteau

You think I'm a pretty good race car driver? Wait until you see my brother. He's the best driver in the family. — Kurt Busch