Cottonwoods Quotes

#1. I simply knew, via song, sunlight, redwings and cottonwoods, that there was a world I was born to live in, that the men I was standing beside lived in another, and that as long as I remembered this their words would never hurt me again.

David James Duncan

#2. My love for you won't stop with my leaving. Come an evening over the years, when you step outside your door and hear the wind blowing through the cottonwoods, that'll be me, thinking of you, whispering your name, and loving you.

Penelope Williamson

#3. I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30.

Helena Bonham Carter

#4. WE [black women] HAVE ADAPTED TO A SOCIETY THAT DOES'NT HONOR US.

Iyanla Vanzant

#5. I've been in auditions without screens, and I can assure you that I was prejudiced. I began to listen with my eyes, and there is no way that your eyes don't affect your judgement. The only true way to listen is with your ears and your heart. (p.251)

Malcolm Gladwell

#6. You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water.

Rabindranath Tagore

#7. Helping people is difficult and unpredictable, and our interventions don't always work, but successes are possible, and these victories are incredibly important.

Nicholas Kristof

#8. What is the pope doing inserting himself - he's the Vicar of Christ. He is the worldwide leader of the Catholic faith. What is he doing inserting himself into the American political system this way? That to me is the larger question.

Rush Limbaugh

#9. How important to set aside time each day for the unknowable. How important to reach out: it doesn't matter that I don't yet believe.

Sy Safransky

#10. There is no better taste than this: someone else's laughter in your mouth.

Maggie Stiefvater

#11. She would wonder what had hurt her when she found her face wet with tears, and then would wonder how she could have been hurt without knowing it.

George MacDonald

#12. Any so-called stimulus program is a ruse. The government can increase its spending only by reducing private spending equivalently.

Richard Wagner

#13. Conscience is like a pet: If you spoil it by too much attention it'll start yipping at the most inopportune times.

Connie Brockway

#14. I want to be a pretty corpse.

Eva Braun

#15. When you have had the kind of fame I had, I was always hounded by the media and I lived a very isolated life. Now it's even more difficult. The world has changed dramatically.

David Cassidy