Martin Luther Quotes

I can't keep the sparrows from flying around my head, but I can keep them from making a nest in my hair.

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• A spiritual partnership is a partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth. Spiritual partners use their delightful experiences together as well as their power struggles to learn about themselves and change themselves.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Power
  • Together
  • Change

• I miss my friends in public school, but it's kind of a part of something that you have to give up. I'd rather perform than go to public school.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Up
  • School
  • Friends

• We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Feelings
  • Sex
  • Kindness

• I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.

  

  Dan Marino
  • People
  • Life
  • Doing

• I have a friend who is around my age, a little younger, and she's gay and came out to her own community when she was younger but not to her family and to the community at large.

  

  Laura Innes
  • Family
  • She
  • Age

• The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Always
  • Autobiography

• We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Help
  • Earth
  • Know

• I love songs that people can dance to and enjoy at the same time.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • Time
  • Love

• When you save book reports, art projects and put them in a scrapbook, it shows a kid you care and you are taking an interest in their lives.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • Art
  • Book
  • Care

• I do like alternative rock and rap, but as far as inspirational, then I go full-on orchestra. It fills up your entire being.

  

  Osric Chau
  • Up
  • Rock
  • inspirational

• I almost bought a DeLorean the other day just because. If I see something that I think is cool and I like it, I'll go for it.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Think
  • Day
  • Cool

• I used to get 2000 as pocket money, and I was being offered a car and an opportunity to make lakhs, so I said a yes. I was a kid and got homesick over my 40-day schedule in Bangalore and decided that I would only do films in the South if they were 10-day roles.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Money
  • Opportunity
  • Car

• Looking back, it puzzles me that my parents decided to stay in Shanghai when they must have known that war was imminent. But the cotton works were my father's responsibility, and duty then counted for something.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • War
  • Father
  • Parents

• It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Easy
  • Started
  • Getting

• There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Me
  • Moment
  • Part

• I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Up
  • Time
  • Baseball

• I've never YouTubed myself, and I'm actually scared to do it. I think I may just let sleeping dogs lie on this one.

  

  Taylor Handley
  • May
  • Think
  • Myself

• To young people born under the weird planet of the SAT, intelligence was equated with agility, with raw acuity. It produced a certain sort of person of which I was a typical specimen: the mental contortionist, able to rise to almost every challenge placed before him, except the challenge of real self-knowledge.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Real
  • Knowledge

• While I know that Twitter is doing just fine with or without my 140-character contributions, I also know that people are fickle, and when using something becomes too annoying, they stop.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • People
  • Character
  • Know

• We should not allow wealthy people, including corporate criminals, to hide their assets and avoid paying their bills.

  

  Jim Talent
  • People

• I had my airplane, and I'd use it as a car whenever I could. If the drive was going to be longer than an hour, I was flying the plane instead. And in California, it's really easy to have a drive longer than an hour.

  

  Jake Busey
  • Car
  • California
  • Flying

• All I want is beautiful. I mean, I like grey hair, I love wrinkles. But this is me.

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • Beautiful
  • Hair

• A chilly breeze that seemed to emanate from the heart of the forest lifted the hair at Harry's brow. He knew that they would not tell him to go, that it would have to be his decision. "You'll stay with me?" "Until the very end," said James.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Heart
  • Decision
  • Hair

• I can't keep the sparrows from flying around my head, but I can keep them from making a nest in my hair.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Hair
  • Head
  • Sparrows