May Asawa Quotes

#1. They can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a compass to locate other monuments and eventually to find their way out of the great, gray federal wilderness.

Hugh Sidey

#2. No blast of air or fire of sun Puts out the light whereby we run With girdled loins our lamplit race, And each from each takes heart of grace And spirit till his turn be done.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

#3. Art is doing. Art deals directly with life.

Ruth Asawa

#4. Sometimes good comes through adversity. I would not be who I am today had it not been for the internment, and I like who I am.

Ruth Asawa

#5. Art can only be taught by artists.

Ruth Asawa

#6. It isn't a weakness to accept kindness. It isn't a weakness to allow yourself to be cared for.

Julie Anne Long

#7. The best ideas come unexpectedly from a conversation or a common activity like watering the garden. These can get lost or slip away if not acted on when they occur.

Ruth Asawa

#8. Of all sorts of flattery, that which comes from a solemn character and stands before a sermon is the worst-complexioned. Such commendation is a satire upon the author, makes the text look mercenary, and disables the discourse from doing service.

Jeremy Collier

#9. I am easily influenced. Compared with me a weather vane is Gibraltar.

Franklin P. Adams

#10. After the day is gone we shall go out, breathe deeply, and look up - and there the stars will be, unchanged, unchangeable.

H. A. Rey

#11. One thing I know about Willie Hutch: my homie, [Big] Jerm, listens to nothing but Soul music, so he put me on to all this Soul music back in the day.

Mac Miller

#12. When you put a seed in the ground, it doesn't stop growing after eight hours. It keeps going every minute that it's in the earth. We, too, need to keep growing every moment of every day that we are on this earth.

Ruth Asawa

#13. You're the warm sheets next to me every morning, and the bright colors in the dryer when we do laundry. You're the toothbrush next to mine on the sink. You're the first sip of coffee in the morning, and the last sip of win at night.

Shannon Richard

#14. Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.

Jean-Philippe Rameau

#15. All my wire sculptures come from the same loop. And there's only one way to do it. The idea is to do it simply, and you end up with a shape.

Ruth Asawa

#16. If a nonartist teaches a subject called art, it is nonart.

Ruth Asawa

#17. Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done.

Ruth Asawa

#18. Don't characterize loners as aloof or crowd seekers as arrogant. They may be living out their story.

Max Lucado

#19. Identity was a liquid state, ever interchangeable, and adaptable to its surroundings... It was better to not have favourites - a snake didn't mourn when it had to shed its skin.

Leonardo Donofrio

#20. I think when you take forever off the table, it does something really interesting to what you think is important. There's something a little freeing about it.

Lorene Scafaria

#21. Don't blame humanity for being weak, it's still growing up

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#22. If we do something over and over, it becomes normal. If we see the same thing over and over, it becomes normal.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie