Top 100 Quotes About Maxine
#2. What is crucial is the provision of opportunities for telling all the diverse stories, for interpreting membership as well as ethnicity, for making inescapable the braids of experience woven into the fabric of America's plurality.
Maxine Greene
#4. I'm so proud that my offspring became a musician. I'm full of awe that we are able to have a whole family live the life of artists.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#5. We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're alive together during the same moment.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#7. To be moral involves taking a position towards that matrix, thinking critically about what is taken for granted.
Maxine Greene
#9. Logic doesn't always lead us down the right path. Logic tells us not to take chances. Not to chase after that risk. To ignore the what ifs. I guess part of growing up is deciding when to listen to your head...and when to listen to your heart.
Jenny B. Jones
#10. To write about the monstrous sense of alienation the poet feels in this culture of polarized hatreds is a way of staying sane. With the poem, I reach out to an audience equally at odds with official policy, and I celebrate our mutual humanness in an inhuman world.
Maxine Kumin
#11. Love is like a roller coaster. When it's good, you don't want to stop and when it's not ... you want to throw up.
Maxine
#12. Nobody supports me at the expense of his own adventure. Then I get bitter: I am not loved enough to be supported. That I am not a burden has to compensate for the sad envy when I look at women loved enough to be supported. Even now China wraps double binds around my feet.
Maxine
#13. To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world - that I am able to change it in positive ways.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#15. Take every birthday with a grain of salt. This works much better if the salt accompanies a large margarita
Maxine
#16. When alone I am not aware of my race or my sex, both in need of social contexts for definition.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#18. Reading Ngo Tu Lap's poems, terrible nostalgia wells up in me- nostalgia for a lost time and a far-gone country, nostalgia for people I've loved, and for creatures of forests and rivers. I feel gratitude too. War is over. Peace arrives with these beautiful poems.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#19. It seems that writing chose me. I feel that because I know history, and I know the history of so many cultures; I have lived a large life.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#20. It's funny," she said reflectively, "but I always used to think that if only I was slimmer everything in my life would be all right. I didn't realize until it happened that it would just open up a whole new set of problems." ~Maxine
W. Soliman
#22. I was a very, I think, lonely kid, very introspective. I felt very much at odds with my environment and my culture ... Probably a genetic flaw. I can't really explain it.
Maxine Kumin
#24. If you stay ready, there's no need to get ready when an opportunity presents itself.
Maxine Phillips
#25. God serves the choosy. They know what to want ...
Maxine Kumin
#26. I've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#27. There can't be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are told, they change. If the stories don't change they just die.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#28. Part of teaching is helping people create themselves.
Maxine Greene
#29. The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing like cherry blossoms.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#30. I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.
Maxine Waters
#31. Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#32. I think Hillary and Bill are really liberals at heart. I think that, in addition to being liberals, they are very practical. They have made some decisions about what it takes to win.
Maxine Waters
#33. If you call it a riot, it sounds like it was just a bunch of crazy people who went out and did bad things for no reason. I maintain it was somewhat understandable, if not acceptable. So I call it a rebellion.
Maxine Waters
#34. Meanwhile let us cast one shadow in air and water.
Maxine Kumin
#35. This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty.
Maxine Waters
#36. Ray kept well away from the shed. He hated the loony gestures of the furniture, its bossiness, the way Maxine would shape a table to enclose the sitter at it, trapping him like a baby in a high chair or a school boy at his inkwell.
Helen Garner
#37. Attraction eludes control so stubbornly that whole societies designed to organize relationships among people cannot keep order, not even when they bind people to one another from childhood and raise them together.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#38. How does he support Clinton's urban agenda? He doesn't know what it is.
Maxine Waters
#39. Those of us in the first American generations have had to figure out how the invisible world the emigrants built around our childhoods fits in solid America.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#40. There's something in life that's a curtain, and I keep trying to raise it.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#41. Imagination is the capacity to think of things as if they could be otherwise.
Maxine
#42. I have to march because my mother could not have an abortion.
Maxine Waters
#44. In Harlan, Kentucky, we told stories the way some people play music ... In the mountains, storytelling is truly an art form, and as much recreation as communication.
Maxine Cheshire
#45. Nothing is changed, except
there was a moment when
the wolf, the mongering wolf
who stands outside the self
lay lightly down, and slept.
Maxine Kumin
#46. Wipe your mouth,
there's still a tiny bit of bullshit around your lips.
John Wagner
#48. The only way to keep a secret in Washington, if you are the one person who knows it, is never to tell another living soul.
Maxine Cheshire
#49. It's time for the bully pulpit of the White House to bring the gangstas in, put them around the table and let them know that if they don't come up with loan modifications and keep people in their homes that they've worked so hard for, we're gonna tax them out of business.
Maxine Waters
#50. It's a funny thing no matter who you are when you purchase a flower or a plant, the first thing you ask is how do I keep this plant and keep it growing beautiful. People need the same concern.
Maxine Powell
#51. IMAGINE! See it, feel it, believe it!
You can do anything, if you truly believe in yourself."
Ronaldo's Grandad
Former captain of the North Pole Flying Team, and very wise reindeer.
Maxine Sylvester
#52. Writing is my salvation. If I didn't write, what would I do?
Maxine Kumin
#53. If you use a positive word, the corners of your lips go upward and it makes you smile.
Maxine Powell
#54. I don't see white police officers slamming the heads of little white boys into police cars.
Maxine Waters
#55. You can call me Agent Mickelson,' he told me with a smile. 'What about you? Is Max short for something? Maxine?'
'No, Dean. It's just Max.
James Patterson
#56. Women are not supposed to have uteruses, especially in poems.
Maxine Kumin
#57. When forces of nature are involved, fate gets all the blame.
Maxine Clair
#58. People who can comfort the dead can also chase after them to hurt them further-a reverse ancestor worship.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#60. I'll tell you the secret to good teaching: make possible an experience without predetermining what that experience will be.
Maxine
#61. But the men - hungry, greedy, tired of planting in dry soil - had been forced to leave the village in order to send food-money home.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#62. I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#63. For hours she lay on the ground, alternately body and space. Sometimes a vision of normal comfort obliterated reality:
Maxine Hong Kingston
#64. Black women are going to have to take more leadership. I think we are prepared because we bring a tenaciousness with us. We do not fear losing friends, allies, or jobs.
Maxine Waters
#65. Ocean people are very different from land people. The ocean never stops saying and asking into ears, which don't sleep like eyes.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#66. I have a vast 'bone pile' of stillborn or abandoned poems along with jottings and wisps from the great beyond that I tend to scan. Sometimes that leads somewhere, and sometimes the Muse is just on sabbatical.
Maxine Kumin
#67. Any of those priests even sniff at you wrong, you fuck them over until they see Jesus.
Marjorie M. Liu
#68. What is more likely? That tomorrow will be called 'Thursday' or that Maxine Waters will play the race card in her ethics investigation?
Jonah Goldberg
#69. I don't think of color, I think that anyone wants a master of their skill and be successful knows no color.
Maxine Powell
#70. Our Parents were gods and monsters at the same time. Maybe we're all like that- gods and monsters
Maxine Paetro
#71. When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, she is almost fifty years old
Maxine Kumin
#72. My favorite birthday game is Pin the Cleanup on the guests.
Maxine
#73. Early identification of your God-given abilities helps you to become happier and successful earlier in life.
Maxine Phillips
#74. A teacher in search of his/her own freedom may be the only kind of teacher who can arouse young persons to go in search of their own
Maxine Greene
#75. [To the editor of the Harlan, Kentucky, Daily Enterprise, as a kindergartener:] I know everything that goes on in this town, and if you give me a job so will you.
Maxine Cheshire
#76. We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story.
Maxine Kumin
#77. Your best thing for you to do is learn how to listen and follow positive guidelines which is a skill and to be determined and consistent and you're going to go places in life not only whether you sing but you're getting a basic finish background to do anything you want to do in life.
Maxine Powell
#78. Do the right thing by whoever crosses your path. Those coincidental people are your people.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#79. Daughters-in-law lived with their husbands' parents, not their own; a synonym for marriage in Chinese is taking a daughter-in-law.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#81. Maxine Hancock says we should think of ourselves as the servant leaders of our homes. I think by the addition of the word leaders, she implies that while we serve we should also command respect.
Sheila Wray Gregoire
#82. What can an outsider know, except/the shell of things?
Maxine Kumin
#83. I've been in this struggle for many years now. I understand racism. I understand that there are a lot of people in this country who don't care about the problems of the inner city. We have to fight every day that we get up for every little thing that we get. And so I keep struggling.
Maxine Waters
#84. The difference between mad people and sane people ... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#85. I'm going home the old way with a light hand on the reins making the long approach.
Maxine Kumin
#87. Probably all babies, having recently been nothing, have a tenuous hold on life.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#88. Many other cities could go the way that Los Angeles went last night unless the president is willing to step in and take some strong action in terms of letting people know that he cares about this issue.
Maxine Waters
#89. My mother is not smiling; Chinese do not smile for photographs. Their faces command relatives in foreign lands - 'Send money' - and prosperity for ever - 'Put food in front of this picture.' My mother does not understand Chinese- American snapshots. 'What are you laughing at?' she asks. (1983: 58)
Maxine Hong Kingston
#90. Before we can leave our parents, they stuff our heads like the suitcases which they jam-pack with homemade underwear.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#91. If sequestration takes place, that's going to be a great setback. We don't need to be having something like sequestration that's going to cause these job losses - over 170 million jobs that could be lost,
Maxine Waters
#92. So many poems you go into and come up empty.
Maxine Kumin
#93. And the pond's stillness nippled as if by rain instead is pocked with life.
Maxine Kumin
#94. To look at possibility is to be free.
Maxine
#96. UTSL, which Maxine at first takes for an anagram of LUST or possibly SLUT but later learns is Unix for Use The Source, Luke.
Thomas Pynchon
#97. I don't think I've ever felt terribly comfortable writing about my body. First of all, I think I took my body for granted for so many years. I abused it a lot.
Maxine Kumin
#98. Humans are basically good. That's why it takes so much training to march march march kill kill kill kill.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#99. Life in a small town is like an intricately plotted novel, and even though I had read every book in the public library by the time I was fourteen, I found the real people around me saying and doing far more interesting things than did the imaginary book characters.
Maxine Cheshire
#100. When I am composing, I try to clear my mind of having to publish, or having to sell a book or find readers. That kind of thinking gets in the way.
Maxine Hong Kingston
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