Alonzo Herndon Quotes

#1. Dreams die hard and we watch them erode, but we cannot be denied the fire inside.

Bob Seger

#2. But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world.

Elizabeth Moon

#3. One of those pertinacious tempers that would warm every day to a white heat and never again cool to forgiveness.

H.G.Wells

#4. I would live to study, not study to live.

Francis Bacon

#5. When everything is visible and appears to be dumb, that's when the details take on larger meanings.

David Byrne

#6. My mother is so full of joy and life. I am her child. And that is better than being the child of anyone else in the world.

Maya Angelou

#7. We were greatly overcome at parting; and if ever, in my life, I have had a void made in my heart, I had one made that day.

Charles Dickens

#8. If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and raise frogs, then perhaps there are other static entities that we hold inside ourselves, like grief, like addictions, like racism, that can also change.

Nalini Nadkarni

#9. The hand of God creates; it does not conceal.

Umberto Eco

#10. Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#11. If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.

William Dean Howells

#12. Up till recently 75% of all inventions from the time of the industrial revolution is credited to the countries where Protestant ethics were taught

Sunday Adelaja

#13. The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities.

V.S. Naipaul

#14. At IBM, a corporation that embodied the ideal of the company man, the sales force gathered each morning to belt out the company anthem, "Ever Onward," and to harmonize on the "Selling IBM" song, set to the tune of "Singin' in the Rain.

Susan Cain

#15. My job as a human being as well as a writer is to feel as thoroughly as possible the experience that I am part of, and then press it a little further.

Jane Hirshfield