Kumbaya Quotes

#1. The point is not to give people a break. The point is to tell all the truth you can bear about them and not despise them, not to be a kumbaya kind of guy.

Rob Nilsson

#2. What's going to happen?" he asked. "Are we all going to stand in a circle and sing 'Kumbaya'?

Rachel Hawkins

#3. I am not an idiot, and I'm not a Pollyanna sort of kumbaya type.

Dan Savage

#4. In a perfect world, we would all swap our carb loaded breakfasts for veggie smoothies, exercise 7 days a week, and meditate for an hour a day. No one would be overweight, we would never lose our tempers and we would sing Kumbaya all day. This is the real world, so this is never going to happen. As

Carmella J Bell

#5. As cheesy as this is gonna sound, everyone join hands."
Alex looked from my face to our tangled fingers and smirked. "As much as I like this, I'm thinking now's not the time to sing 'Kumbaya'.

Jus Accardo

#6. Gratitude is a "nice" habit to adopt, warming your heart and all, but the Kumbaya effect is just the beginning. Gratefulness goes wayyyyyyy beyond the momentary feeling good, offering plenty of long-term and "practical" benefits we may never have intuited.

Kelly Corbet

#7. I know it sounds Pollyannish and 'Kumbaya'-like, but I find that the more that you expose Americans to the diversity of what's going on in China and vice versa, the more people find that there is this broad middle path. And so I'm a strong advocate of intense visits and dialogue back and forth.

Dennis C. Blair

#8. The four of us sat around the pentagram holding hands. I wondered if we were about to sing Kumbaya.

Rachel Hawkins

#9. We have a tendency to sugar coat the Civil Rights movement by showing arm in arm and everyone singing 'Kumbaya'. We don't really always show the resistance from the government, the resistance from the status quo, from the majority to silence the movement.

Nate Parker

#10. Before we kumbaya this shit, you're going to do something for me, right here and now." The

J.R. Ward

#11. Problem with segregation isn't that people can't live in peaceful harmony singing "Kumbaya" - although that wouldn't be bad. The problem is that many of these Whitopian communities are taking state, local, and federal resources with them.

Richard Benjamin

#12. You can't spend months insulting almost every group imaginable and then expect everyone to suddenly sing kumbaya together.

Kevin James Shay

#13. A lot of people have said a lot of great things about Steve Jobs. And for good reason: he built the world's second-most valuable company, with billions in profits and products that have improved every aspect of our lives. But Steve didn't get there by being a soft, fluffy, Kumbaya-type leader.

Kevin O'Leary

#14. No," Wrath said without looking away from Xcor. "Before we kumbaya this shit, you're going to do something for me, right here and now." The King pointed to the carpet at his feet. "On your knees, bastard." -

J.R. Ward

#15. But you know what? Peace is just an idea. There will never be peace on Earth, at least, not the kind of kumbaya-harmony people envision. There can be ceasefires and treaties, but we will never know true peace. That's the sad truth of the world.

June Gray

#16. Mapping does not purport to create an idealistic vision where all teachers agree, love one another, and gather around a campfire and sing 'Curriculum Kumbaya.' What it can develop is a sense of place, of respect, and of new grounds for discussion, disputes, and direction.

Heidi Hayes Jacobs

#17. Yeah,maybe later we can all sing a demon version of 'Kumbaya.

Rachel Hawkins

#18. However much the universe and its mysteries might call him, this was where he was born and where he belonged. It would never satisfy him, yet always he would return. He had gone half-way across the Galaxy to learn this simple truth.

Arthur C. Clarke

#19. Damn, pity I can't bottle him, because I'd make a fortune - after I'd enjoyed him first of course. Her dirty thoughts made her blush even deeper, and she thanked the Dark Lord that the man couldn't read her mind even if her body seemed unable to stop betraying her.

Eve Langlais

#20. The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.

Themistocles

#21. She knew all about love - that beautiful, exquisitely painful but precious journey.

Mary Hart Perry

#22. Is there a God? No. God is a verb, not a noun.

Micky Dolenz

#23. Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that.

Imelda Staunton

#24. Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

Oliver Goldsmith

#25. Design is a career where you learn creative decision making.

Biz Stone