Astrup Family Foundation Quotes

#1. It's true there are moments - foolish moments, ecstasy on a tree stump - when I'm all but gone, scattered I like to think like seed, for I'm the sort now in the fool's position of having love left over which I'd like to lose; what good is it now to me, candy ungiven after Halloween?

William H Gass

#2. man you might like to take her out. If you were

Stephen R. Covey

#3. The Lord healed all our wounds.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

Wendell Phillips

#5. People can be slave ships in shoes.

Zora Neale Hurston

#6. A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women.

Margaret Atwood

#7. It would be terribly boring to be earnest.

Adrien Brody

#8. The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#9. I'm not suggesting our music is the only music, but I am suggesting that there are certain elements in America's culture that are so precious that it would be a shame for them to go down the drain.

Johnny Otis

#10. My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of the weak morphine pills she had around her. When she knew she was dying I promised to make sure she could go at a time of her choosing, but it was impossible. I couldn't help.

Polly Toynbee

#11. I make no excuse for what happened. Drunkenness is never more than a symptom, not an absolute cause, and I realize that it would be wrong of me to try to defend myself. Nevertheless, there is at least the possibility of an explanation.

Paul Auster

#12. For a long time, I stood in the circle of his arm and counted the stars. I ran out of numbers before brightness, and that felt like a promise of better days to come.

Ann Aguirre

#13. We took on things which people might think would take a year or two. They weren't particularly hard. What was hard was believing they weren't hard.

Edwin Land

#14. I have too many secrets. For all these years I've been a speaker for the dead, uncovering secrets and helping people to live in the light of truth. Now I no longer tell anyone half of what I know, because if I told the whole truth there would be fear, hatred, brutality, murder, war.

Orson Scott Card

#15. The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in look as much like home as we can.

Christopher Fry