Sula Toni Morrison Quotes

#1. I don't know why I'm drawn to anti-heroes, but I certainly am.

Jason Reitman

#2. The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II to African-Americans in the Civil Rights era.

Rand Paul

#3. After all that carryin' on just gettin' him out and keepin' him alive he wanted to crawl back in my womb and well ... I ain't got the room no more even if he could do it. There wasn't space for him in my womb (71).

Toni Morrison

#4. School life is like being on a monkey mountain ... monkeys in the same gang constantly fight and get back together again ... and a hierarchy gets established.

Shouko Akira

#5. Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.

Michel De Montaigne

#6. Sorghum started to answer, but Wheat flew at him and knocked him down. The karpoi began to fight, dissolving into funnel clouds of grain. Hazel considered making a run for it. Then Wheat re-formed, holding Sorghum in a headlock. "Stop!" he yelled at the others. "Mulitgrain fighting is not allowed!

Rick Riordan

#7. Self-consciousness is the enemy of interestingness.

Malcolm Gladwell

#8. Diligence increaseth the fruit of toil. A dilatory man wrestles with losses.

Hesiod

#9. It was a fine cry - loud and long - but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.

Toni Morrison

#10. Shadrack rose and returned to the cot, where he fell into the first sleep of his new life. A sleep deeper than the hospital drugs; deeper than the pits of plums, steadier than the condor's wing; more tranquil than the curve of eggs.

Toni Morrison

#11. Carefully they replaced the soil and covered the entire grave with uprooted grass.
Neither one had spoken a word.

Toni Morrison

#12. It's morning when I go to sleep
In the distant dawn a church bell rings
Another day is coming on
A baby's born, an old man dies
Somewhere young lovers kiss good-bye
I leave my soul and just move on
And wish that I was there to sing this song

Jon Bon Jovi

#13. Any time you play a character for a long period of time, regardless of how close it is to you, it infiltrates your life. It's impossible for it not to.

Jesse Eisenberg

#14. Grover started to sniffle and I figured if I didn't cheer him up he'd either start bawling or chewing up my mattress. He tends to eat household objects whenever he gets upset.

Rick Riordan

#15. When I was doing 'Executive Orders,' I talked about Ebola to people who know about infectious diseases and their use as weapons of war, and guys told me that these weapons are more psychological than physical.

Tom Clancy

#16. You been gone too long, Sula. Not too long, but maybe too far.

Toni Morrison

#17. The real hell of Hell is that it is forever.' Sula said that. She said doing anything forever and ever was hell.

Toni Morrison

#18. Are you planning on coming out and kissing me any time soon? Or should I just stab myself in the chest, rip out my heart, and leave it out in the open?

Jay McLean

#19. Seeing her step so easily from the pantry and emerge looking precisely as she did when she entered, only happier, taught Sula that sex was pleasant and frequent, but otherwise unremarkable.

Toni Morrison

#20. They say that a lion puts his all, even into catching a rabbit. You should make it a habit of putting your all into every little thing you do.

Koichi Tohei

#21. I'm totally an East Coast person, energetic and sarcastic. I'm not a nice L.A. person.

Diane Warren