Ron Finley Quotes

#1. We are not peddlers of the fashionable. We believe that good design defies fashion, is truly innovative, eminently sensible, yet a source of inspiration to those who have the pleasure of living with it.

Arthur Erickson

#2. In my opinion, character is the most important determinant of a person's success, achievement and ability to handle adversity.

Tom Landry

#3. The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

Paul Tillich

#4. The White House encouraged Tom Brady to be more of a role model. They would've said more, but there was a drunken Secret Service agent streaking across the Rose Garden.

Jimmy Fallon

#5. We gotta flip the script on what a gangsta is - if you ain't a gardener, you ain't gangsta.

Ron Finley

#6. Less emphasis on inventories, I think, may tend to dampen business cycles, because business cycles are typically in the grasp of inventory cycles and heavy industry cycles.

Paul A. Volcker

#7. To dare, and again dare, and forever dare!

Georges Danton

#8. How horribly rapid everything has been, from the days when men were not ashamed to talk of souls and of suffering and of hope to these low days of smiles that will never again be sly enough to hide the knowledge of betrayal and deceit.

Ayi Kwei Armah

#9. Virtue begins when we dedicate ourselves actively to the job of gratitude.

Ruth Benedict

#10. Children learn what they live.

Ron Finley

#11. The best ambassador is a warship.

Michelle J. Howard

#12. People need to realize how powerful the transformation of soil can be.

Ron Finley

#13. If kids grow kale, kids eat kale. If they grow tomatoes, they eat tomatoes. But when none of this is presented to them, if they're not shown how food affects the mind and the body, they blindly eat whatever you put in front of them.

Ron Finley

#14. All the attention in the world won't do my dishes.

Ron Finley

#15. Stuffing one muffin in his mouth and a second in his pocket, Auguste slipped into a side passage and away. He'd just take a wander 'round the city and hope some assassin made a merciful move.

Rachel Heffington

#16. People in my neighborhood are so disconnected from the fresh food supply that kids don't know an eggplant from a sweet potato. We have to show them how to get grounded in the truest sense of the word.

Ron Finley

#17. I'm not one of those academics that don't do shit but reads about it. The difference is, I do shit. I have a proof of concept and it works.

Ron Finley

#18. South Central Los Angeles [is the] home of the drive-thru and the drive-by. Funny thing is, the drive-thrus are killing more people than the drive-bys.

Ron Finley

#19. Through people locked together crotch to crotch, face to face, crotch to face, crotch to ass, and ass to face, I dig a pit.

Chuck Palahniuk

#20. If children live with hostility, they learn to fight. If they live with fear, they learn to be apprehensive. If they live with criticism, they learn to condemn.

Ron Finley

#21. We've gotten so far away from our food source. It's been hijacked from us. But if you get soil, plant something in it and water it, you can feed yourself. It's that simple.

Ron Finley