Donald Byrd Quotes

I'm creative; I'm not re-creative.

Donald Byrd

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• If there should prove to be one real, living Free State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be-extinct variety of the genus Democrat.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Real
  • Free
  • Interesting

• Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Life
  • Important
  • Family

• Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Women
  • Age
  • Society

• How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Trying
  • Want
  • You

• I would like 'I Dream of Genie' powers.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Dream
  • Like
  • Would

• I don't need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It's very much about style and substance and humor, interest, curiosity and really being smart.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Style
  • Smart
  • Humor

• I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.

  

  Candice Olson
  • People
  • Marriage
  • Compromise

• He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Find
  • Paradise
  • Paths

• We can't go all over the world killing people because we disagree with them.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • People
  • World
  • Over

• Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Power
  • Remember
  • Political

• Fred Segal was founded - by none other than Fred Segal - as a tiny jeans retailer in 1968. In the 1970s Segal, began selling space to employees, starting with his nephew Ron Herman.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Space
  • Starting
  • Jeans

• Ordinary Geiger counters, worn on belt clips and resembling pagers, have been in use by the U.S. Customs Service for years.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Service
  • Years
  • Been

• I like most any place if I have Internet access.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Like
  • Internet
  • Most

• I feel like a good mom. I'm a strong woman now... Don't look down on me. Pray for me because I'm trying.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Strong

• I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Live
  • Never
  • Head

• I love the scent of jasmine, honeysuckle, and orange blossom. They remind me of gardens and visits to the ocean I would make as a boy.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Ocean
  • Remind
  • Blossom

• But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood?

  

  Frances Wright
  • May
  • Attention
  • Feelings

• Baseball always gets credit for the foundational part of masculinity - the father thing. The eternal game of backyard catch, 'Field of Dreams', the Ripkens, the Griffeys, the Bondses, so on. But football is the real paternal game, because it's a conveyor belt of father figures, in the form of coaches.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Real
  • Father
  • Game

• I can't think about whether I'll disappoint Sonic Youth fans. It's not like I want people to be disappointed, but I just can't control that.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • People
  • Control

• If nature made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart. And though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that.

  

  Joseph Henry "T Bone" Burnett III The Alpha Band
  • Heart
  • Nature
  • Born

• I have Native American blood. I have African blood. I have European blood.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • American
  • Blood
  • Native

• So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age.

  

  John Gardner
  • Age
  • Childhood
  • Terrible

• Do not be lazy. Run each day's race with all your might, so that at the end you will receive the victory wreath from God. Keep on running even when you have had a fall. The victory wreath is won by him who does not stay down, but always gets up again, grasps the banner of faith and keeps on running in the assurance that Jesus is Victor.

  

  Basilea Schlink
  • God
  • Running
  • Jesus

• I'm creative; I'm not re-creative.

  

  Donald Byrd