Carolyn Kizer Quotes

You cannot meet someone for a moment, or even cast eyes on someone in the street, without changing. That is my subject.

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• I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.

  

  Walter Martin
  • Biblical
  • Context
  • Prophet

• I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Job
  • First
  • Old

• I once rode a motorcycle across Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco!

  

  Cara Black
  • Motorcycle
  • Once
  • Morocco

• In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.

  

  Cal Thomas
  • Character
  • Broken
  • Laws

• The police officers, so far as discipline, organization, pay, and orders were concerned, came exclusively under the German Reich police system and were in no way connected with the administration of the Government General.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Government
  • Discipline
  • Organization

• To other Canadians who are on journeys to defeat cancer and to live their lives, I say this: please don't be discouraged that my own journey hasn't gone as well as I had hoped. You must not lose your own hope.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Live
  • Hope
  • Journey

• I've danced my whole life. Martial arts is just fun for me, it's all choreographed a bit like dance. I have done Muay Thai and Wushu, which is cool because it's very fluid dance. I also do Tricking. It's kind of like Taekwondo with the big kicks and flips and showier aspects of martial arts.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Life
  • Done
  • Fun

• No matter how irrelevant social class now is, even the most eager egalitarian must be quietly proud that the posh English rose is still an industry standard for peerlessly sophisticated beauty.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Proud
  • English
  • Beauty

• 'Do you suppose a woman knows why she loves? Does she select? Does she say to herself, 'Go to! here is a distinguished statesman with presidential possibilities; I shall proceed to fall in love with him.' or, 'I shall set my heart upon this musician, whose fame is on every tongue?' or 'this financier, who controls the world's money markets?''

  

  Kate Chopin
  • World
  • Money
  • Heart

• We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government. 'Am I my brother's keeper?' Most certainly I am! I cannot escape my responsibility by saying the State will do all that is necessary. It is a tragedy that nowadays so many think and feel otherwise.

  

  Albert Schweitzer
  • Responsibility
  • Brother
  • Organization

• Everything I do has a certain quality, a certain flair, a certain flavor. I like to eat the way I like to dress, the way I listen to music: put it all together, and it's a great party.

  

  Kelis Rogers
  • Great
  • Music
  • Together

• I just want people to know out there no matter what they've done, God doesn't judge us on how many sins. God is there for us. He loves us. He wants us to turn it over to Him.

  

  Lex Luger
  • People
  • God
  • Done

• I was a very strange child.

  

  Alessia Cara

• When I was a boy, I was sagging my pants like everyone else. Some boys become men and continue to sag their pants because that's their form of rebellion.

  

  Jidenna Theodore Mobisson
  • Men
  • Boy

• I, I am my own woman. I have not been, quote, 'bred' to look the other way. I look at that man back there in the green room straight on, eyes wide open, and I look at him with an open heart.

  

  Maria Shriver
  • Heart
  • Eyes
  • Green

• It is generally admitted that the most beautiful qualities of a color are in its transparent state, applied over a white ground with the light shining through the color.

  

  Maxfield Parrish
  • Beautiful
  • Light
  • Color

• Some people survived the neolithic age by being brave, others by being cowardly and smart.

  

  Phil Lord
  • People
  • Age
  • Smart

• A wise man in his house should find a wife gentle and courteous, or no wife at all.

  

  Euripides
  • House
  • Wife
  • Wise Man

• I'm a big proponent of open adoption, because it allows a relationship between the birth mother and her child so that the kid isn't like, "Where did I come from?" And to have it be like, "Look, you have a bunch of people who love you." Not just the parents who are raising you on a day-to-day basis, but also to have contact with your birth mother and hopefully your birth father. So that you can be like, "Oh, they love me too, and they love me so much that they knew they couldn't take care of me but they're still in my life to some extent."

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Father

• America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.

  

  Nicholas Donabet Kristof
  • Education
  • Generation
  • Inequity

• You cannot meet someone for a moment, or even cast eyes on someone in the street, without changing. That is my subject.

  

  Carolyn Kizer
  • Moments
  • Eye
  • Streets