Minnan Culture Quotes

#1. Good mothers are underrated, just like good defense.

Andy Van Slyke

#2. I always wanted to live to about 70. I thought that'd be a good age.

Evel Knievel

#3. A few years hence and he will be beneath the sod; but those cliffs will stand, as now, facing the ocean, incessantly lashed by its waves, yet unshaken, immovable; and other eyes will gaze on them for their brief day of life, and then they, too, will close.

Henry Parry Liddon

#4. Remember," Duncan asked on the plane, "how Walt asked if it was green or brown?"
Both Garp and Duncan laughed. But it was neither green nor brown, Garp thought. It was me. It was Helen. It was the color of bad weather. It was the size of an automobile.

John Irving

#5. I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.

Bryan Procter

#6. Miss Barry, who was sitting behind them, leaned forward and poked Marilla in the back with her parasol.

L.M. Montgomery

#7. Through the Thou a person becomes I.

Martin Buber

#8. When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life.

John Kennedy Toole

#9. Maintain your relationships - for all kinds of reasons, friends are vital. Good friends, supportive friends, friends who won't judge you or try to take advantage of you.

Peter Kinderman

#10. When others fail to celebrate you, celebrate your own achievements.

Janiese Wesley

#11. I'm a monster, I'm a maven,
I know this world is changin'.
Never gave in, never gave up,
I'm the only thing I'm afraid of.

Kanye West

#12. When people struggling against an injustice have no hope that anything will ever change, they use their strength to survive; when they think that their actions matter, that same strength becomes a force for positive change.

Susan Stryker

#13. And though I remember her name I cannot recall her face. All things pass.

John Christopher

#14. I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.

Ken Robinson