Sara Coleridge Quotes

Hot July brings cooling showers, Apricots and gillyflowers.

Sara Coleridge

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• I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations and being exposed to several different cultures and languages.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • World
  • Good
  • Different

• I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Life
  • Family
  • Protect

• Fame is a distraction sometimes. You know, it's a distraction if you let it. So it's very important to stay focused, stay very connected to your roots.

  

  OMI
  • Important
  • Roots
  • Stay Focused

• The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come from, and I've often wondered if writing is just a socially acceptable form of madness.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • People
  • Writing
  • Ideas

• I think politics in general are just like a popularity contest but McCain is just... old.

  

  D. L. Hughley

• I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

  

  Eleanora Fagan
  • Comeback

• Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • World
  • Freedom

• There are no standards for computer programmers and no group to certify them.

  

  Dave Parnas

• I would rather be a fairly happy wife and mother.

  

  Mary MacLane
  • Happy
  • Mother
  • Wife

• If I was Judge Del Rosario, I would say Ili, of all people, you know better.

  

  Duane Chapman
  • People
  • Judge

• Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Chaos
  • Lazy

• Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

  

  Plautus
  • Wisdom

• I was born in the U.S. This is my country.

  

  Fred Korematsu
  • Country

• As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.

  

  Jean de la Bruyere

• There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.

  

  Ajay Naidu
  • America
  • Cold
  • Sky

• I will say that I know Nirvana did a show and played a few chords from 'More Than a Feeling' before they did 'Teen Spirit,' and it wasn't very good. But in all seriousness, 'Teen Spirit' was a great song. If subconsciously or somehow I had any influence on that, I'll take that as a compliment.

  

  Tom Scholz Boston
  • Good
  • Great
  • Song

• For me, playing music while I write is important. Several of the romantic scenes in 'Paris' were written with Debussy's 'String Quartet,' his 'L'Apres-midi d'une Faune,' or Canteloube's 'Songs of the Auvergne' playing in the background.

  

  Edward Rutherfurd
  • Music
  • Important
  • Romantic

• The move to creating stories was a natural progression for me, but the most pivotal time was probably in 6th grade: That year, a friend introduced me to the stories of Ray Bradbury, and a student teacher introduced me to creative writing.

  

  Lynn Flewelling
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Friend

• The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Air

• He adores you, you know. You’re very lucky to have a brother like that.” I fall into step with her. “Yeah, right, I’m the luckiest guy in the universe.” I heave a sigh. “But in my next life I’d prefer a puppy, okay?

  

  Bart Yates
  • Universe
  • Brother
  • Step

• The territorialism and desire to possess things comes directly from the ego, which strives to own and control things. Your spirit already knows you own nothing. It is a matter of realizing that your happiness does not depend on your ownership of things. They help you in your journey but they are not the journey itself.

  

  Karen Kingston
  • Journey
  • Matter
  • Helping

• Pleasantly, between the pelting showers, the sunshine gushes down.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Sun
  • Sunshine
  • Showers

• I know when I started I would have been happy to sound like the Beatles or Joe Tex or whoever. You want to sound like most bands, you want to sound like their records and that's how you learn your chops.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • Happy
  • Want
  • Band

• Hot July brings cooling showers, Apricots and gillyflowers.

  

  Sara Coleridge
  • Showers
  • July
  • Apricots