Oakie From Muskogee Quotes

#1. I'm proud to be an Oakie from Muskogee, a place where even squares can have a ball. We still wave Old Glory down at the courthouse and white lightning's still the biggest thrill of all.

Merle Haggard

#2. Remember, too, that at a time when people are very concerned with their health and its relationship to what they eat, we have handed over the responsibility for our nourishment to faceless corporations.

Lynne Rossetto Kasper

#3. I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight.

Robin Green

#4. Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

Robert Smithson

#5. Perhaps there would be more anxiety in my work if I lived in New York.

Edward Ruscha

#6. Matrimony might be a fleeting folly that tricked you into believing that it would be forever, but it was harder to appreciate the humor when you were not the one who ended it

Elif Shafak

#7. War clearly blurred the distinction between logic and superstition

Markus Zusak

#8. History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#9. The word "to grieve" or "lament" in Japanese is actually made up of two different kanji characters - "sadness" and "resentment.

Takashi Hiraide

#10. Believing that you are the righteousness of God through Christ Jesus and simply receiving the gift of no condemnation gives you the power to go and sin no more.

Joseph Prince

#11. The imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes.

Henry David Thoreau

#12. You may have made some mistakes, but just like a parent helps their child when they are learning to walk, God will help you get right back up anytime you fall.

Victoria Osteen

#13. Baba Ayub didn't understand. Just as he didn't understand why a wave of something, something like the tail end of a sad dream, always swept through him whenever he heard the jingling, surprising him each time like an unexpected gust of wind. But then it passed, as all things do. It passed.

Khaled Hosseini