Carolyn Parkhurst Quotes

Perhaps she saw before her a lifetime of walking on the ruined earth and chose instead a single moment in the air.

Carolyn Parkhurst

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• It kind of scares me, the notion that we're going to be injecting ourselves into other countries' affairs when they're not posing a threat to our security. I wouldn't be telling Israel what to do.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Security
  • Countries
  • Notion

• It's easy when you have suffered to feel the link with what others have gone through.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • You
  • Feel
  • Easy

• If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging bits of dialogue or sentiment, then you're sort of writing a novel, really. But rock lyrics are not really known for their sophistication.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Writing
  • You
  • Rock

• I would love to do something like 'Beverly Hills Cop'. I'd get to be funny and cool and heroic all in the same breath.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Funny
  • Cool
  • Like

• I used to a lot. I used to go dancing.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Used
  • Dancing
  • Go

• Because of a great love, one is courageous.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Great
  • Love
  • Courageous

• I'm very serious about acting.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Serious
  • Acting
  • Very

• Easy reading is damn hard writing.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Easy

• As a third generation American I grew up with the obsessive idea of personal liberty which engrosses all Americans except the oldest and richest families.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Up
  • American

• But, come to think of it, there was no need to wait. Time travelers don’t have to wait for anybody.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Time

• The late Indira Gandhi always used to warn about the dangers that the country was facing. She used to keep saying that the country was going through a very dangerous time. This danger is now many times more than what it was at that time. We should all be cautious now.

  

  Rajiv Gandhi
  • Time
  • Country
  • She

• I told about the whole being greater than the sum of its parts. 'It's that way with people, too,' he said, 'only with people it's sometimes that the whole is less than the sum of the parts.'

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • People

• Somewhere we went wrong We were once so strong Our love is like a song You can't forget it at all.

  

  Demi Lovato
  • Song
  • Strong

• Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times; and which have much veneration, but no rest.

  

  Prince
  • Good
  • Rest
  • Evil

• I love the things that you've given meI cherish you my dear countryBut sometimes I don't understand the way we play

  

  Norah Jones

• In view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognise, there are yet people who say there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • People
  • God
  • Mind

• When I told my mother that I wanted to be an actress, she said, you can't live here and do that, and so I moved out. I was determined to prove her wrong because she was so sure that I was going to go astray. And that's the juice that kept me going.

  

  Cicely Tyson
  • Live
  • She
  • Mother

• Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

  

  Constance Baker Motley
  • Racism

• On this subject any general rule is impossible ; love, like the chamelion, is coloured by the air in which it lives - and the finer the air the richer the colour. Some young ladies have a happy facility of falling in and out of love; their heart, like a raspberry tart, is covered with crosses.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Heart
  • Happy
  • Air

• If a planet is setting in the West at the time of our birth, its angle strikes us in such a manner as to draw us to a certain type of marriage partner, and the planets under the earth, in the North, have an effect upon our condition in the latter part of life.

  

  Max Heindel
  • Life
  • Time
  • Earth

• I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Information

• For months the life of the little band went on much as it had before, except that Tarzan's greater intelligence and his ability as a hunter were the means of providing for them more bountifully than ever before. Most of them, therefore, were more than content with the change in rulers.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Life
  • Band

• Only the very courageous will be able to keep alive the spirit of individualism and dissent which gave birth to this nation, nourished it as an infant, and carried it through its severest tests upon the attainment of its maturity.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Maturity

• Perhaps she saw before her a lifetime of walking on the ruined earth and chose instead a single moment in the air.

  

  Carolyn Parkhurst
  • Earth
  • Moments
  • Air