Air Quotes - Page 7

The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being close to a mothering power. It was good for the skin to touch the earth and the old people liked to remove their moccasins and walk with bare feet on the sacred earth. Their tipis were built upon the earth and their altars were made of earth. The birds that flew into the air came to rest upon the earth and it was the final abiding place of all things that lived and grew. The soil was soothing, strengthening, cleansing and healing.

The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.

All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

I am not my hair I am not this skin I am not your expectations, no I am not my hair I am not this skin I am the soul that lives within.

When we have found how the nucleus of atoms is built up we shall have found the greatest secret of all — except life. We shall have found the basis of everything — of the earth we walk on, of the air we breathe, of the sunshine, of our physical body itself, of everything in the world, however great or however small — except life.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

We are dust and to dust return. In the end we're neither air, nor fire, nor water, just dirt, neither more nor less, just dirt, and maybe some yellow flowers.

I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.

To be cheerful when others are in despair, to keep the faith when others falter, to be true even when we feel forsaken—all of these are deeply desired outcomes during the deliberate, divine tutorials which God gives to us—because He loves us. These learning experiences must not be misread as divine indifference. Instead, such tutorials are a part of the divine unfolding.

The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.

Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?

Killing a person with a 8 cm ling blunt knife is a bloody affair.

The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't win a war if you haven't.

Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.

My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require.

The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to air in public their views on anything controversial. ... Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.

He may have hair upon his chest but, sister, so has Lassie.

The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.

Is it not obvious that Britain, under the regime of Tony Blair, has ceased to respect the Charter of the United Nations?

How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!

The air has finally gotten to the place that we can breathe it together.

Life will hit you hard in the face, wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass.