Pito Quotes

#1. Whether an island such as Easter Island can be considered remote is simply a matter of perspective. Those who live there, the Rapa Nui, call their homeland Te Pito Te Henua, 'the navel of the world'. Any point on the infinite globe of the Earth can become a centre.

Judith Schalansky

#2. When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buckteeth. I didn't want to get braces, but my mom said I couldn't be an actor if I didn't get the braces. So, I got the braces.

James Franco

#3. Ed Cray ruined this class the way an infant with dysentery ruins a diaper. Actually, that's not fair to the infant; the kid has no idea what he's doing.

Bryan Bishop

#4. It is hard to touch what brings pain by mere contact.

Publilius Syrus

#5. To run the world, you had to find it in yourself to grit your teeth and just fake it. Just stare them down, never back off.

Bruce Sterling

#6. Why shouldn't we have laws forbidding pornography and obscenity? Many heroic leaders have tried, but they have stumbled over even the definition of the word "obscenity." If we cannot agree on the length of a foot, it is because we have lost our yardstick.

Billy Graham

#7. It might be said that society speaks through the clothing it wears. Through its clothing it reveals its secret aspirations and uses it, at least in part, to build or destroy its future.

Pope Pius XII

#8. The foundation of joyful independence is being content with yourself; self-love.

Bryant McGill

#9. We're phenomenally blessed in the Walla Walla Valley. We have great, complex soil that's nutrient-rich but fairly porous.

Drew Bledsoe

#10. Medical research is "immoral even it it's essential."

Ingrid Newkirk

#11. Take your picture off the wall
So I won't have to see your eyes
And maybe soon I won't recall
The painful things that once were nice

Emily Ruskovich

#12. I made some changes, I didn't go around telling everybody I was ready to make changes, I just remained me. I may get more criticism today in putting this book out than I have. You know, maybe this is my time, but I'm ready to take the criticism and answer anybody's questions.

Reginald Arvizu

#13. Whoever is faithful in very little is also faithful in much, and whoever is unrighteous in very little is also unrighteous in much.

Anonymous