Bloodstreams Quotes

#1. The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into our bodies to find lifelong purchase in our bloodstreams.

Maya Angelou

#2. Research has shown that focusing on appreciation and gratitude has all kinds of positive health effects, lowering indicators of disease-causing stress and increasing the flow of healthy hormones in our bloodstreams.

Martha N. Beck

#3. Antidepressants were swimming in the rivers, and our bloodstreams were just as polluted as the waterways.

Karen Thompson Walker

#4. I am a world-class weenie when it comes to letting people stick needles into me. My subconscious mind firmly believes that if God had wanted us to have direct access to our bloodstreams, He would have equipped our skin with small, clearly marked doors.

Dave Barry

#5. Acheron is the Greek Underworld river, timelessly flowing beneath Middle World consciousness, circulating through our bloodstreams in varying states from polluted to pristine. Freud was fond of this line from Virgil's Aeneid: "If I cannot bend the gods, then I shall stir up Acheron.

Mary Trainor-Brigham

#6. The enthusiasm that characterizes our time is, unlike current events, hopeful and, like all enthusiasms, playful. The energy that flashes through our electronics has leapt into most of our bloodstreams and brains.

Edward M. Hallowell

#7. Temporary teams of trusted people are generally sent to all Departments and to major agencies of government to assist in planning and to acquaint the incoming administration with the civil servants and bureaucracy that will remain in place in the new Administration.

Richard V. Allen

#8. It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.

Tracy Chevalier

#9. When you get right down to it, militaries are essentially legalized mafias.

Michel Templet

#10. But in my family, playing music was still more important than the type of music you played, so when after a few months it became clear that my love for the cello was no passing crush, my parents rented me one so I could practice at home. Rusty scales and triads

Gayle Forman

#11. A mother's love for her child is legendary.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#12. You must not lie about trilobites, nor yet about time.

Richard Fortey

#13. This was the invention of modern American philanthropy as we know it. The idea of systematizing giving to achieve human progress was the true innovation of John D. Rockefeller, and ultimately the Rockefeller Foundation's legacy.

Judith Rodin

#14. Think about a seed. Once it lands, it's stuck. It can't move to find better soil, moisture or sunlight. It's able to create every part of itself to grow and reproduce with the help of air, water and sun.

David Suzuki

#15. The individual is taught that there is nothing that he as a total person is to feel ashamed of or self-hating for.

Albert Ellis

#16. I'm not sure what the moral is here ... I really just wanted to tell that story.

Tim Gunn

#17. Destiny and history are untidy.

Djuna Barnes

#18. Christy isn't a case, he's a person.

C. Kennedy