Bertice Berry Quotes

#1. That was a judicious mother who said, I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.

Henry Ward Beecher

#2. It may be that some little root of the sacred tree still lives. Nourish it then, that it may leaf and bloom and fill with singing birds.

Black Elk

#3. If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality.

Jay Alan Sekulow

#4. To two men living the same number of years, the world always provides the same sum of experiences. It is up to us to be conscious of them. Being aware of one's life, one's revolt, one's freedom, and to the maximum, is living, and to the maximum.

Albert Camus

#5. I must be wanting to be President. Every young man does. But I won't let myself think of it; I must not, because if I do, I will begin to work for it; I'll be careful, calculating, cautious in word and act, and so - I'll beat myself.

Theodore Roosevelt

#6. I don't drink or do any drugs. I never have and I never will. I don't need them. I'm a black woman from the land of the free, home of the brave, and I figure I don't need another illusion.

Bertice Berry

#7. Not that I dislike McDonalds, but things must be pretty bad in Moscow if people are willing to wait three hours for large fries.

Mark Patinkin

#8. Music does more than soothe the soul, it brings balance to the mind, body, and spirit.

Bertice Berry

#9. If I could find them (assemblages) in nature I would photograph them. I make them because through photography I have a knowledge of things that can't be found.

Frederick Sommer

#10. When you walk with purpose, you collide with destiny.

Bertice Berry

#11. Count the things you want more of. Count the laughs, not calories.

Grady Miller

#12. But Truth is that besides which there is nothing: nothing to modify it, nothing to question it, nothing to form an exception: the all-inclusive, the complete - By Truth, I mean the Universal.

Charles Fort

#13. It doesn't pay to listen much to what human beings have to say in their evaluation of you, since they don't evaluate themselves very properly.

Frederick Lenz

#14. You'd think that I'd be dieting, but I'm not.

Kelly Hu

#15. An excess of hoarded wealth is the death of many.

Juvenal

#16. Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of their character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.

Lydia M. Child

#17. I learned long ago that when change comes, you gotta slow down and take note of it. In the midst of that change is all the possibility in the world.

Bertice Berry

#18. Life is not a harvest. Just because you have an apple doesn't mean you have an orchard. You have an apple. Put a fence around it. Once you have put a fence around everything you value, then you have the total circle of your heart.

Sheila Heti