Top 33 Heidi Durrow Quotes
#1. I don't know if it's better to have people laugh at what you are or just not understand.
Heidi W. Durrow
#2. Math can explain the reason there's one out of four chance that I'd have blue eyes. But it doesn't explain why me.
Heidi W. Durrow
#3. I think what a family is shouldn't be so hard to see. It should be the one thing people know just by looking at you.
Heidi W. Durrow
#4. We live in the same house but we both feel lonely. We and lonely don't belong in the same sentence.
Heidi W. Durrow
#5. Aunt Loretta doesn't look like herself, but she doesn't look broken.
Heidi W. Durrow
#6. I can't get rid of the sadness," Laronne said.
"Well," David said, "then we'll just keep it company.
Heidi Durrow
#7. I love standing under a steaming shower when I'm tired in the morning. I don't really get a chance for baths.
Suzanne Shaw
#8. But just because you're transparent about treating people poorly doesn't mean you're not an asshole for doing it.
Jennifer Tress
#9. I will not be sad. I will be okay. Those promises become my layers. The middle that no one will touch.
Heidi W. Durrow
#10. The way Grandma paints her dream for me, there's a low sky.
Heidi W. Durrow
#12. The bottle is where everything sad or mean or confusing can go. And the blues
it's like that bottle. But in the bottle there's a seed that you let grow. Even in the bottle it can grow big and green. It's full of all those feelings that are in there, but beautiful and growing too.
Heidi W. Durrow
#13. It's easy to smile just to make other people feel better. But when a person fakes happy, it has edges. Regular people may not see, but the people who count, they can see the edges and the lines where your smile ends and the real you, the sadness (me) or the anger (Grandma) begins.
Heidi W. Durrow
#14. Seeing Grandma this way, it makes me know for certain that everything about a person will show up in another person in the family.
Heidi W. Durrow
#15. Grandma sees these things when she talks about them and gestures with her hands like she's painting brush strokes in the air. The way Grandma paints her dreams for me, there's a low sky.
Heidi W. Durrow
#18. If there's no one else to tell another side - the only story that can be told is the story that becomes true. (p. 173)
Heidi W. Durrow
#19. We are obsessed with sex, because those organisms who have this obsession leave behind many more copies of organisms with this obsession.
Hugh Howey
#20. I'm not the color of my skin. I'm a story. One with a past and a future unwritten.
Heidi W. Durrow
#21. I think of how Grandma makes fun of love. And maybe that's the key.
Heidi W. Durrow
#22. You know some people say that you make watches or perfume bottles, it's all different things.
Marc Newson
#24. A woman made of parts is a dangerous thing. You never know when she'll throw away a piece you may need.
Heidi W. Durrow
#25. She left the porch pelting her back with unasked questions. They hoped the answers were cruel and strange.
Zora Neale Hurston
#26. If I don't have the books to read, if I don't have the information to study, how can I succeed? That's a lot of the stuff I would focus on if I was elected because I think knowledge is power.
Richard Sherman
#27. When the song is over, she bows and I clap. I wonder how come she seems so brave. There is no part of her she hides. Lakeisha sits with me now on the bed and says,"Wanna hear a story?" I don't have to say yes before she tells me .
Heidi W. Durrow
#28. That makes me think of how the other black girls in school think I want to be white. They call me an Oreo. I don't want to be white. Sometimes I want to go back to being what I was. I want to be nothing.
Heidi W. Durrow
#29. I'm relaxed about my career. I've been making movies for over 20 years, so I've earned at least the right to relax.
Eddie Murphy
#31. Nobody ever saw anybody who had seen anybody who had heard of anybody that had ever seen anybody that had ever seen one of the original Hebrew manuscripts.
Robert G. Ingersoll
#32. Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
Idries Shah
#33. I have the Italian flag embroidered onto all my dress-shirt cuffs. I am very proud to be Italian.
Lapo Elkann
