Kevin Young Quotes
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The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om.
Eden Ahbez -
Nothing earth-shattering has happened in men's fashion. How much can you do with men's clothes?
Calvin Klein -
Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth?
Lady Gregory -
I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.
Eden Ahbez -
The rain forest has Sting. Now Siberia has Jack Dee. Someone had to draw the short straw. In this case it was the rain forest.
Jack Dee -
We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.
Haile Selassie
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso -
To get important work done, most leaders organize people into teams. They believe that when people collaborate toward a common goal, great things can happen. Yet in reality, the whole is often much less than the sum of the parts.
Adam Grant -
President Obama, like every other leader on Earth, is still going to be looking out for national and economic interests. States don't cease to be states overnight just because they get a great visionary as their new president.
Samantha Power -
I believe that you're here on Earth for a short time, and while you're here, you shouldn't forget it.
Bea Arthur -
The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.
Feisal Abdul Rauf -
My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the dirtiness on the roof tops. And after a time, even at night, the feeling of God didn't last.
Frances Farmer -
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
Saint Augustine -
Narnia, Middle-earth and New York were my three fantasy universes when I was a kid.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
Recognize that dissenting opinions are useful even when they're wrong, and go out of your way to reward them.
Adam Grant -
Encourage children to write their own stories, and then don't rain on their parade. Don't say, 'That's not true.' Applaud flights of fantasy. Help with spelling and grammar, but stand up and cheer the use of imagination.
Gail Carson Levine
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There grew pied wind-flowers and violets, Daisies, those pearl’d Arcturi of the earth, The constellated flower that never sets; Faint oxlips; tender bluebells at whose birth The sod scarce heaved; and that tall flower that wets Its mother’s face with heaven-collected tears, When the low wind, its playmate’s voice, it hears.
Percy Bysshe Shelley -
My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.
Candace Bushnell -
The power of fantasy is so strong that people think they are having a good time when they are merely wasting money.
Vernon Howard -
I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.
Aaron Paul -
That comes from most people having an American film model in their heads which is nothing but a total illusionary masturbatory massage.
Peter Greenaway -
I think poems return us to that place of mud and dirt and earth, sun and rain.
Kevin Young