Rudy Wiebe Quotes

#1. People are taking it for granted that [the Negro] ought not to work with his head. And it is so easy for these people among whom we are living to believe this; it flatters and satisfies their self-complacency.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

#2. You are free, but you have to choose. An open oven bakes no bread

Paulo Coelho

#3. Those Mennonite villages in Russia are my heritage, but not my world. The world I feel and sense in my bones is the bush of northern Saskatchewan, of prairie Canada.

Rudy Wiebe

#4. Let your existence be enough for a moment.

Bryant McGill

#5. You'd never last in South America. Fans take their radios to the stadium so they can think what the commentators think.

Simon Kuper

#6. Five hundred and fifty generations have lived here. Only the stories we tell each other will create us as a true Canadian people.

Rudy Wiebe

#7. The day I will never forget is the day I married my wife, Tashera. Tashera is so special to my boys and me. Her energy is enough to put anyone on a cloud. Her dedication and care gives me comfort and ease.

DMX

#8. Songs, stories are beyond value; they are the memory and wisdom of a people, the particular individual rivers of the sea of life which constitutes us all.

Rudy Wiebe

#9. You won't age? I promise you this - your hands will go shiny and transparent and at the slightest bruise they'll bleed ...

John Geddes

#10. We are, in many respects, in a moral and spiritual free-fall in our country, and we are paying a terrible price.

Joel C. Rosenberg

#11. Unfortunately, as far as the music is concerned, what defines relevance is whether you are on the radio or whether you are on the cover of a magazine or whether you're winning MTV awards, and so on and so forth.

Larry Mullen Jr.

#12. I was nine when I figured out it's better to be respected than liked.

A.D. Aliwat

#13. Any Canadian looking in the bathroom mirror is sure to recognize one of Guy Vanderhaeghe's people. Man Descending is the startling debut of an excellent writer.

Rudy Wiebe

#14. A gaze to stop still, wonder at the shimmering depths.
A memory near the amygdala stored, an unforgettable tune,
Such an image did it impress, your sweet nostalgic scents.

Selina A. Mahmood

#15. I was addicted to his danger, and holy shit, I had it bad for the ultimate bad boy. More alpha than I probably knew what to do with.

Keri Lake

#16. Understand is not the word; you are right, you can never really 'understand' about someone, anyone, even yourself. It is best to believe in them as human; feel that they are alive like you and need warmth, concern.

Rudy Wiebe

#17. The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted behavior, even desirable.

Fannie Flagg