Age Quotes - Page 29

If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu.

Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of every 24.

Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that may still hang in Greenwich Village.

What may look like a small act of courage is courage nevertheless. The important thing is to be willing to take a step forward.

European languages must not be considered diamonds displayed under a glass ball, dazzling us with their brilliance.

My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.

My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.

Brokenness is often the road to breakthrough. Be encouraged.

The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living.

It's good to be challenged, to keep moving forward, and keep being inspired and scared. I feel like, if you're not afraid of something, you shouldn't do it. If you're just coasting through things, what's the point? You're not learning.

I suppose the story of my life is a search for love, but more than that, I have been looking for a way to repair myself from the damages I suffered early on and to define my obligation, if I had any, to myself and my species.

While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

You bring your own weather to the picnic.

To become imperceptible oneself, to have dismantled love in order to become capable of loving. To have dismantled one's self in order finally to be alone and meet the true double at the other end of the line. A clandestine passenger on a motionless voyage. To become like everybody else; but this, precisely, is a becoming only for one who knows how to be nobody, to no longer be anybody. To paint oneself gray on gray.

The present never ages. Each moment is like a snowflake, unique, unspoiled, unrepeatable, and can be appreciated in its surprisingness.

Eugenics is the study of the agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations either physically or mentally.

Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.

You were my strength when I was weak; you were my voice when I couldn't speak; you were my eyes when I couldn't see; you saw the best there was in me; lifted me up when I couldn't reach, you gave me faith cuz you believed. I'm everything I am because you loved me.

While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will be up to, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician.

My own duty as a teacher...is not so much to interpret Beethoven, Wagner, or other masters of the past, but to give what encouragement I can to the young musicians of America. I...hope that just as this nation has already surpassed so many others in marvelous inventions and feats of engineering and commerce, and has made an honorable place for itself in literature in one short century, so it must assert itself on the...art of music...To bring about this result, we must trust the very youthful enthusiasm and patriotism of this country.

We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.

Do you love your creator Love your fellow-beings first.

Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over.