Monday, August 30, 2021

Thursday, August 26, 2021

Relationships, Commitment, Loyalty, Love, Patience, Persistence, Cornel West

“We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.” - Cornel West, Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life, by bell hooks

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/6176.Cornel_West.

Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Books, Perfect Entertainment, Stephen King

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.” ― Stephen King

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3389.Stephen_King.

Saturday, August 21, 2021

Leave Something Behind, Ray Bradbury

“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.

"It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.” ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Found on Goodreads. Click here to see this and other Ray Bradbury quotes.

Friday, August 13, 2021

Remember the Ladies, Generous and Favorable, Tyrants, Rebellion, Abigail Adams

“Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by an Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.” - Abigail Adams, wife of the second president of the United States of America.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 47.

Thursday, August 12, 2021

Test of Our Progress, Abundance, Little, Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Found on . Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/franklin_d_roosevelt_163168.

Thursday, August 5, 2021