Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes

I Still Have Everything You Gave Me It is dusty on the edges. It is slightly rotten. I guard it without thinking. I focus on it once a year when I shake it out in the wind. I do not ache. I would not trade.

Naomi Shihab Nye

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• A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.

  

  Dan Savage
  • Kids
  • Identity
  • Expectations

• Our management team strongly believes that the key opportunity of our business does not only come from just the increase in terms of number of users but also how we continue to enhance the value of our platform for our users.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Business
  • Opportunity
  • Team

• I grew up with an abundance of things from our garden, so fried food was not enjoyable.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Up
  • Food
  • Garden

• The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Years
  • Rain
  • Plants

• I'm probably the only bottom-heavy golfer in the country.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Country
  • Only
  • Golfer

• Everyone in the astronaut program has a degree in a science field. The crew are the ones who do the experiments, help to design some of the experiments that come from other primary researchers. So it becomes very important that you have a science background.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Important
  • Help
  • Science

• The Sichuan disaster is not the first nor the most wrongful. But all the details of this tragedy will be forgotten, and once again it will be like nothing ever happened. Eventually all these disasters will together create a bizarre miracle called civilization and evolution.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Together
  • Miracle

• 'I am the one you saw to-day, who fellSenseless before you, hearing a certain bell:A bell that broke great memories in my brain.'I am the one who passed unnoticed before you,Invisible, in a cloud of secret pain.'

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Great
  • Pain
  • Brain

• When I started working all the time, I started eating the right food that will help me have my energy up and stay healthy.

  

  Lauren Alaina
  • Up
  • Time
  • Help

• I was raised by two women, and that laid the groundwork for the way I treat 'em: with the utmost respect and admiration.

  

  Jimmy Connors
  • Women
  • Respect

• I was scared of the dark. Ohhhh, I'd do anything not to have to sleep on my own. I'd get in bed and cover myself with dolls and teddy bears.

  

  Peta Wilson
  • Dark
  • Sleep

• I'm always criticizing and only see the mistakes.

  

  David Chang

• I remember I had an aunt that lived in a house that had this beautiful ceramic wall that was entirely a painting of a peacock.

  

  Kevin Kwan
  • Remember
  • House
  • Beautiful

• It's in our best interest to put some of the old rules aside and create new ones and follow the consumer - what the consumer wants and where the consumer wants to go.

  

  Bob Iger

• I hate the idea that you somehow, as a human being, have to be put in a box. There's no reason why lawyers can't be fun - or actresses can't be serious.

  

  Amal Clooney
  • Why
  • Fun
  • Hate

• Never, ever deal with terrorists. Hunt them down and, more important, mercilessly punish those states and groups that fund, arm, support, or simply allow their territories to be used by the terrorists with impunity.

  

  Meir Kahane
  • Important
  • Support

• I think that when you get dressed in the morning, sometimes you're really making a decision about your behavior for the day. Like if you put on flipflops, you're saying: 'Hope I don't get chased today.' 'Be nice to people in sneakers.'

  

  Demetri Martin
  • People
  • Hope
  • Today

• I love to do comedy.

  

  Adrianne Palicki
  • Comedy

• Sex has never been an obsession with me. It's just like eating a bag of crisps. Quite nice, but nothing marvellous.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • Nice
  • Eating
  • Obsession

• This stigma associated with drug use--the belief that bad kids use, good kids don't, and those with full-blown addiction are weak, dissolute, and pathetic--has contributed to the escalation of use and has hampered treatment more than any single other factor.

  

  David Sheff
  • Kids
  • Addiction
  • Treatment

• It's very hard to be a screenwriter. I remember getting a couple of awards. I got a PEN West award a million years ago when I did Running on Empty, and I sat in the room with all these writers. They wrote everything from novels to non-fiction to children's books to journalism - any kind of writing - and I realized that there was no one in the room who would ever read anything I'd written.

  

  Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal
  • Remember
  • Running
  • Journalism

• When you believe in God, you've got to believe in the all-powerful God. He's not just God, He's the all-powerful God and He has total control over everyone's life. The Devil, on the other hand, is a real character that's trying his hardest to tear your life apart.

  

  Alice Cooper
  • Life
  • God
  • Believe

• I Still Have Everything You Gave Me It is dusty on the edges. It is slightly rotten. I guard it without thinking. I focus on it once a year when I shake it out in the wind. I do not ache. I would not trade.

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Edges
  • Dusty