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“Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their families, their histories too. Talk to them, listen to them. They are alive poems.”
Source : Joy Harjo (2004). “How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002”, p.42, W. W. Norton & Company
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“You can work really hard, but if you're not training in the right way you're not going to improve and get to the level that you want to.”
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“Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.”
Source : Thomas Bulfinch (2012). “Bulfinch's Greek and Roman Mythology: The Age of Fable”, p.7, Courier Corporation
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“Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.”
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“My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.”
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“If you give a man a fish, he is hungry again in an hour. If you teach him to catch a fish, you do him a good turn.”
Source : "Mrs Dymond". Book by Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie, 1885.
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“Oh, no. I don't think I've ever really subscribed to that view, that you can turn it on and off like a water tap. Um, you know, I think that there's a whole lot that goes into the makeup of an individual that, uh, you just can't simply say, oh, like, "Tomorrow morning I'm gonna stop being gay." It's like saying, "Tomorrow morning I'm gonna stop being black."”
Source : "Michael Steele, au revoir" by Michael Tomasky, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2009.
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“Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.”