quotes

4/10/02

These are just good quotes. You can also check out some of my fave quotes from songs on the music page. All right, I cave... my friends are funny too.

"Si les reves meurent en traversant les ans et les realites, je garde intact mes souvenirs, sel de ma memoire."
"If dreams die while travelling across years and realities, I keep intact my memories."
- Une Si Longue Lettre, Mariama Ba

"Panic kills."
- The Maryland Functional Math Test

"Yours is not to question why; yours is but to do, or die."
- "The Charge of the Light Brigade" by someone smart(I forget!)

"Pourquoi les gens qui s'aiment sont-ils un peu toujours cruelles? Quand vous partent d'eux il y a quelquechose qui vous éloigne. Ce sont des choses humaines."
"Why are people who love each other always a little cruel? When you leave them there is something that distances you. These are human things."
- a song I heard in France

"The grass is rich and matted, you cannot see the soil. It holds the rain and mist, and they seep into the ground, feeding the streams... Stand unshod upon it, for the ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator. Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed."
- Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country

"Although they are
Only breath, words
which I command
are immmortal."
- Sappho

"One word of truth outweighs the world."
- Russian Proverb

"...And one is anywhere and some are everywhere and all seem to be singing, though some cannot sing a note."
- Anne Sexton

"No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep."
- Zora Neale Hurston

"If you cried, you died."
- propaganda

"Demolition with Discretion."
- a truck in NYC

"There should be a word for the microscopic spark of hope that you dare not entertain in case the mere act of acknowledging it will cause it to vanish, like trying to look at a photon. You can only sidle up to it, looking past it, walking past it, waiting for it to get big enough to face the world."
- Mort, Terry Pratchett

"I had a turkey but that damned thing never followed me around!"
- the only funny line from Fly Away Home

"Nous naissons faibles, nous avons besoin de force; nous naissons dépourvus de tout, nous avons besoin d'assistance; nous naissons stupides, nous avons besoin de jugement. Tout ce que nous n'avons pas à notre naissance et dont nous avons besoin étant grands, nous est donné par l'éducation."
"We are born weak, we need strength; we are born deprived of everything, we need assistance; nous are born stupid, we need reasoning. Everything that we do not have at our birth and which we will need, being grown, is given to us by education."
- Rousseau, from Emile