Wole Soyinka Quotes

There's no way to escape the culture that has evolved, from which we ourselves have evolved. Naturally, we stress it, break it up, reassemble it to suit our own needs. But it is there - a source of vital strength.

Wole Soyinka

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StrengthCultureStressEscapeWay

I say I am a Planetwalker. Then I have to explain that a Planetwalker is anyone who walks the planet as a lifestyle choice, as part of an education in the spirit and hope of using the journey to benefit the world.

John Francis

EducationJourneyHopeI AmWorld

My work is not great, but it's respectable. I have no false illusions.

Maurice Sendak

WorkGreatFalseIllusions

My opinion is that the movie business should show an accurate picture, but I think the responsibility lies in the educational system. Most of the educational material I've seen on the Native American does not portray an actual picture.

Michael Horse

BusinessResponsibilityOpinionThink

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

Robert Browning

BestSympathyYouAutumnDecayWins

Wishing there were more children's books like 'The Snowy Day' is a bit like wishing there were more grownup books like 'Anna Karenina.' There are only so many masterpieces out there.

Rumaan Alam

ChildrenDayMoreOutOnlyBooks

I enjoy watching movies that are high concept or science fiction or have supernatural elements, like '2:22' has.

Michiel Huisman

ScienceEnjoyMoviesScience Fiction

I can't wait until I have my children. I love the idea that they don't have to do something that they have no interest in, that they can do something completely opposite if they want to.

Drew Barrymore

LoveChildrenWaitWantSomething

I always travel with my bike and it has become a little more difficult to do it nowadays, but I stick it in 3,5 by 6-foot case and wheel that thing in.

Donny Robinson

BikeTravelWheelBecomeDifficult

I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with whom I desired only to live; yet the dreadful apprehensions I have of what is coming upon this land may help to make me submissive to this providence, though more bitter.

Donald Cargill

LiveMeHelpGoLandMore

In 'Changeling,' I tried to show something you'd never see nowadays - a kid sitting and looking at the radio. Just sitting in front of the radio and listening. Your mind does the rest.

Clint Eastwood

MindListeningLookingRestYouSee

Day after day, ordinary people become heroes through extraordinary and selfless actions to help their neighbors.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

DayPeopleSelflessHelpBecome

I'm not bothered by the idea of getting old, or I guess you could say by having arrived at old. I was 10 when my mom turned 55. For 1955, she was a very old mom.

Penn Jillette

MomYouGetting OldSaySheOld

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