Suzanne > Suzanne's Quotes

“I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in about two days.”
― Jon Stewart

“Canada is not the party. Its the apartment above the party.”
― craig ferguson

“When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, "Well, what do you need?”
― Steven Wright

“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshiped.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“I have spread my dreams under your feet.
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
― W.B. Yeats

“But we have all been branded even if you can't see it, inside if not without”
― Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad

“But nobody wanted to speak on the true disposition of the world. And no one wanted to hear it...
The whites came to this land for a fresh start and to escape the tyranny of their masters, just as the Freeman had fled theirs. But the ideals they held up for themselves, they denied others. Cora had heard Michael recite the Declaration of Independence back on the Randall plantation many times, his voice drifting through the village like an angry phantom. She didn't understand the words, most of them at any rate, but created equal was not lost on her. The white men who wrote it didn't understand it either, if all men did not truly mean all men. Not if they snatched away what belonged to other people, whether it was something you could hold in your hand, like dirt, or something you could not, like freedom.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad

“It was a magnificent operation, from seed to bale, but not one of them could be prideful of their labor. It had been stolen from them. Bled from them. The tunnel, the tracks, the desperate souls who found salvation in the coordination of its stations and timetables—this was a marvel to be proud of. She wondered if those who had built this thing had received their proper reward.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ”
― Michael Crichton

“There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham - all a sham, James, and it won't stand when things come to be turned inside out and put down for what they”
― Anna Sewell, Black Beauty

“The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.”
― Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“there’s nothing like hearing your five-year-old daughter sing “Rehab” word for word while wearing Yo Gabba Gabba! pajamas).”
― Dave Grohl, The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music

“I love my children as I was loved as a child, and I pray that they will do the same when their time comes. Some cycles are meant to be broken. Some are meant to be reinforced.”
― Dave Grohl, The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music