Yanomami Quotes

#1. To say "I love you," Yanomami Indians of the Amazon say, "Ya pihi irakema," meaning "I have been contaminated by your being" - a part of you has entered me, and it lives and grows.

David Servan-Schreiber

#2. The greater your creativity, the greater your originality.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#3. I save everything up until Sunday night because if I start sending emails on Saturday afternoon, then people have to start responding to me on Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning.

Dave Goldberg

#4. Here I am, wasting away inside
a book I wish I could escape, and all she wants to do is
stay in the story.
If I could talk to this girl Delilah, I'd ask her why on
earth she would ever trade a single second of the world
she's in for the one in which I'm stuck

Jodi Picoult

#5. The world needs to listen to the cry of the earth, which is asking for help. If you carry on killing people and you continue to destroy nature and you take out all the oil, the minerals and the wood, our planet will become ill and we'll all die.

Davi Kopenawa Yanomami

#6. I think life is a gift from God and should be lived to the full and with purpose.

Tony Blair

#7. I'm not Tate when I'm near Miles. I'm liquid, and liquid doesn't know how to be firm or stand up for itself. Liquid flows. That's all I want to do with Miles.
Flow.

Colleen Hoover

#8. If my people are wiped out you must destroy all photographs of us, because future generations will look at our photographs and be too ashamed at such a crime against humanity.

Davi Kopenawa Yanomami

#9. I think seeing films should be interactive. I'd rather have people see a film that I'm in and either absolutely love it or absolutely hate it, than be like, "Oh, yeah, it was good." That's the worst!

Juno Temple

#10. I'm free of stress and worries now because if I don't like something I'm doing, I just find the fun in it instead of being miserable. Let me have fun with the people I work with, let me have fun making money - when I grew up so poor, ya know?

Jenny McCarthy

#11. Why is it taking so long to believe that if we hurt Nature, we hurt ourselves?

Davi Kopenawa Yanomami

#12. Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.

Regina Brett

#13. There is only one sky and we must take care of it, for if it becomes sick, everything will come to an end.

Davi Kopenawa Yanomami

#14. Kvetching means complaining, and complaining is really what will forever keep New York the city it is.

Sari Botton

#15. Try to be careful, okay? You're the only niece I'm actually speaking to these days. I'm not in the mood to see you dead.

Seanan McGuire

#16. I want to be your lifeline, not your anchor.

Jewel E. Ann

#17. All of life is like raindrops on the window; some stick around for a little while and some just fall right out of the picture.

Andrew Sturm

#18. Peace beings with a smile

Mother Teresa

#19. We're Green Day. We can do whatever we want.

Tre Cool

#20. But the rhythm of the mix tape is the rhythm of romance, the analog hum of a physical connection between two sloppy, human bodies.

Rob Sheffield