Vijitha Basnayake Quotes

#1. We have need to be as sturdy pioneers still as Miles Standish, or Church, or Lovewell. We are to follow on another trail, it is true, but one as convenient for ambushes. What if the Indians are exterminated, are not savages as grim prowling about the clearings today?

Henry David Thoreau

#2. When there were financial difficulties they still managed to provide us with music and art lessons.

Jerome Isaac Friedman

#3. O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#4. I love 'House' - I love 'House' so much.

Angela Kinsey

#5. It's a gift if it makes us better. It's a curse if we let it destroy us.

N.K. Jemisin

#6. He was glad to have been wakened, contemptuous as ever of the happiness to be found in dreams, displeased with himself for having fallen prey to it once again.

Michael Chabon

#7. The children, each of those kids is in touch with nature and traditional aboriginal culture so a very important part of getting performances from them was just letting them be and trying to capture the unique spirituality that was in each of them.

Phillip Noyce

#8. My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.

Ani DiFranco

#9. I realize more than ever that this ministry has been a team effort. Without the help of our prayer partners, our financial supporters, our staff, and our board of directors - this ministry and all of our dreams to spread the Good News of God's love throughout the world would not have been possible.

Billy Graham

#10. Anger is temporary madness.

Rajneesh

#11. When you go into labor you see that you are not the captain of the ship. You are the ship. There is no captain. There are only the waves.

Karen Maezen Miller

#12. What counts is art. painting, a kind of painting that is quite different from what everyone makes it out to be. But what kind? Will God or someone else give me the strength to breathe the breath of prayer and mourning into my paintings, the breath of prayer for redemption and resurrection?

Marc Chagall

#13. Something impacts me emotionally, art is a kind of outlet, and I figure it's the same for a lot of artists. The way my mind deals with things is cinematic.

Ryan Coogler

#14. There is nothing wrong with crying at the end of a long day.

Lemony Snicket

#15. Tom Seaver was let loose twice by the Mets and pitched a no-hitter for the Reds and won his 300th game for the White Sox, but he wears a Mets cap in the Hall of Fame as homage to the 1969 championship.

George Vecsey