Odetta Holmes (Odetta) Quotes
You’re walking down life’s road, society’s foot is on your throat, every which way you turn you can’t get from under that foot. And you reach a fork in the road and you can either lie down and die, or insist upon your life.
Odetta Holmes
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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I can never sit still. I wanna hurl myself into life.
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There are several peculiarities that I share with children which, like having no front teeth, are perhaps more acceptable in the very young, but which, for better or worse, seem to be a part of my makeup.
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We took special pride in the fact that climbing rocks and icefalls had no economic value in society...We were like a wild species living in the edges of an ecosystem - adaptable, resilient and tough.
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Elizabeth Gaskell
Take responsibility and go to work so God has something to help us with.
D. Todd Christofferson
We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility
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I think India has several advantages in the knowledge sector, in the software sector.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
You’re walking down life’s road, society’s foot is on your throat, every which way you turn you can’t get from under that foot. And you reach a fork in the road and you can either lie down and die, or insist upon your life.
Odetta Holmes
