Geoffrey Holder famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him.
-- Geoffrey Holder

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We are too quick to put labels on things. It is my profession. I get up and paint. Everyone wants to put a label on it, but I am a free spirit, so I fight against that.
-- Geoffrey Holder

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I paint a slice of life, whatever it is that day.
-- Geoffrey Holder

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I always wanted to know what it felt like to fall on stage... now I know. It's not how you fall, but how you get up
-- Geoffrey Holder

#Fall #Stage #Wanted
I walk through doors. If I'm not wanted in a place, there's something wrong with the place, not with me.
-- Geoffrey Holder

#Doors #Walks #Wanted

There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.
I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.
Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.
When we look at a child, we see that sense of fullness, of intrinsic aliveness, of joy in being, is not the result of something else. There is value in just being oneself, it is not because of something one does or doesn't do. It is there in the beginning, when we are children, but slowly it gets lost.
It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition
my opinion is that we have, in the person of Da Free John, a Spiritual Master and religious genius of the ultimate degree. I assure you I do not mean that lightly. I am not tossing out high-powered phrases to 'hype' the works of Da Free John. I am simply offering to you my own considered opinion: Da Free John's teaching is, I believe, unsurpassed by that of any other spiritual Hero, of any period, of any place, of any time, of any persuasion.
It is good to remember that the goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians. In the same vein, my teachings are not meant to acquire followers or imitators, but to awaken beings to eternal truth and thus to awakened life and living.
And unlike the rest of you, he hasnâ€™t yet time to ruin his career or his mind." "Then he wonâ€™t do. Send him home. Get us another lunatic." "Excuse me!" [hopping up to stand in his seat] "Elassar Targon, master of the universe, reporting for duty!" "I withdraw my objection.
You are talking to a leftist. I believe in the redistribution of wealth and power in the world. I believe in universal hospital care for everyone. I believe that we should not have a single homeless person in the richest country in the world. And I believe that we should not have a C.I.A. that goes around overwhelming governments and assassinating political leaders, working for tight oligarchies around the world to protect the tight oligarchy here at home.

Geoffrey Holder famous quotes

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