Nisei Daughter Quotes

#1. No coward soul is mine,
No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere ...

Emily Bronte

#2. Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

Charles R. Swindoll

#3. A world in which no sparrow falls unknown, but-so much for the neatness of our diagrams-it is the Father's will that sparrows fall.

Robert Farrar Capon

#4. Drugs, alcohol and ego. They are a bad mix.

Don Dokken

#5. Growing up in the suburbs, I used to listen to punk rock, Brand New, Taking Back Sunday. And no one from my high school listened to it.

Halsey

#6. Life without meaning
cannot be borne.
We find a mission
to which we're sworn
or answer the call
of Death's dark horn.
Without a gleaning
of purpose in life,
we have no vision,
we live in strife,
or let blood fall
on a suicide knife.

Dean Koontz

#7. If we believe in the rebirth of our civilization ... then clearly this renaissance must begin in the chambers of our own hearts ... We cannot wait for society to change, or for our institutions to be renewed. We, as individuals, must assume responsibility for our own personal transformation.

Georg Feuerstein

#8. I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black; it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

June Jordan

#9. Life will never be the same again. Life will be better.

Charlotte Pearson

#10. People cut off love for all kinds of reasons but generally it has to do with them, not with somebody else.

Edward Whittemore