Yessie Clays Quotes & Sayings

Though American scenery is destitute of many of those circumstances that give value to the European, still it has features, and glorious ones, unknown to Europe...the most distinctive, and perhaps the most impressive, characteristic of American scenery is its wildness — Thomas Cole

Indeed the presence of outstanding strengths presupposes that energy needed in other areas has been channeled away from them. — Allen Shawn

Very few people could make me fight out of my system. Burley was one. — Archie Moore

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

For everyone you create to be dependent on you, you are equally dependent on them. Neither relationship is healthy. — Alan Cohen

Hold fast to the love of your life — Lailah Gifty Akita

I think it's a terrible mistake to only think in terms of a degree "buying" you something. — Rebecca Mead

We cannot know the mystery of the future. — Jimmy Carter

You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to ... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa. — Henry Louis Gates

What expressions we used - in part taken over and in part newly invented! above all, the famous 'wholly other' breaking in upon us 'perpendicularly from above,' the not less famous 'infinite qualitative distinction' between God and man, the vacuum, the mathematical point, and the tangent in which alone they must meet. — Karl Barth

Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return. — Josh Billings

Whatever the country, whatever the culture, whatever the time, when you become a big enough organization, you start to collapse and slow down. — Masayoshi Son