Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes

Being alive is a common road. It's what we notice makes us different.

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• Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smokey Joe Wood.

  

  Walter Johnson
  • Man
  • Alive
  • Wood

• I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Practice
  • Road
  • Boy

• It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Life
  • Work
  • Road

• I feel alive inside only when obstacles are arising that must be overcome and eliminated.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Alive
  • Obstacles
  • Overcome

• It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • People
  • Silly
  • Alive

• Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Life
  • Dead
  • Alive

• I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Road

• Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Up
  • Man
  • Alone

• History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We wait, more or less patiently, for it to pause, so that we can get to the liquor store or the laundromat or the burger bar.

  

  Mal Peet
  • History
  • Road
  • Burger

• All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Road
  • Courage
  • inspirational

• I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doing music. It's what I live for. I just wanna be Willie Nelson.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Music
  • Long
  • Live

• My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • May
  • Friends
  • Road

• Taste is the common sense of genius.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Genius
  • Common
  • Common Sense

• The road to the sacred leads through the secular.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Road
  • Through
  • Sacred

• I feel like we have to keep our eyes on the road. Being nostalgic is like taking an offramp and getting a sandwich - and then you get back on the highway. I don't want to be spending the rest of my life at the gas station.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Life
  • Eyes
  • Rest

• Playing live is everything. Sometimes being on the road is hard, and it's a lot of work, and tiring. From a musical point of view, you improve all the time. Not only that, but you learn how to deal with people and deal with energy in a live setting.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Though the demonetisation move should be welcomed, govt should have planned well in advance to ensure that no common man suffer.

  

  Vijay
  • Man
  • Common
  • Planned

• It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Road
  • Picture
  • Down

• Keep on adding, keep on walking, keep on progressing: do not delay on the road, do not go back, do not deviate.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Road
  • Progress
  • Walking

• Just as music comes alive in the performance of it, the same is true of mathematics. The symbols on the page have no more to do with mathematics than the notes on a page of music. They simply represent the experience.

  

  Keith Devlin
  • Alive
  • Math
  • Mathematics

• Every project is different. When I'm working on my albums, I've worked with different producers and they've all had different personalities. The recording studio sets the vibe, and that changes as well.

  

  Diego Boneta
  • Working
  • Changes
  • Project

• Morality, and the ideal of freedom which is the political expression of morality, are not the property of a given party or group, but a value that is fundamentally and universally human... No people will be truly free till all are free.

  

  Benedetto Croce
  • Freedom
  • Value
  • Human

• Being alive is a common road. It's what we notice makes us different.

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Road
  • Common
  • Alive