"I wouldn't mind the rat race - if the rats would lose once in a while."

-- Tom Wilson

#Race Quotes #Mind Quotes #Rats Quotes

“Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.”
“We have a small, tight family. I left home at a young age and the best thing for me was to go home at Christmas-time and spend time with my family and friends. It's kind of funny, most people do turkey and all the trimmings, but we would have a big seafood festival because it's the only time of the year that we'd eat it. We never really went caroling, but once in a while we'd got out for a sleigh ride”
“Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light; light and shade reveal these forms; cubes, cones, spheres, cylinders or pyramids are the great primary forms which light reveals to advantage; the image of these is distinct and tangible within us without ambiguity. It is for this reason that these are beautiful forms, the most beautiful forms. Everybody is agreed to that, the child, the savage and the metaphysician.”
“After his great awakening, the Buddha continued to meditate and to devote himself to others; otherwise his vision would have receded into a pleasant memory.”
“I'm up before 5 a.m., I have breakfast, then swimming, Pilates, weight training, and physical therapy. I'm constantly going from one thing to the next. Everyone is busy, but that's my busy,”
“In my house, we speak Spanglish to the dogs, to the grandchildren, to the kids.”
“I think thats what most of us rappers do too often. We put too much information in some of our albums that could actually be on the next ones.”
“Caves and darkness can't hold you when you die, they can only hold your bones.”

Source : N. D. Wilson (2008). “Leepike Ridge”, p.139, Random House Books for Young Readers

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