We are all regionalists in our origins, however 'universal' our themes and characters, and without our cherished hometowns and childhood landscapes to nourish us, we would be like plants set in shallow soil. Our souls must take root - almost literally.
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Related Our country - whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, or however otherwise bounded or ... ROBERT CHARLES WINTHROP Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories BEN OAK We are nothing without them, our scars and our blemishes. Take away our delusional smiles if you mus... SHRUTI UPADHAYA We absolutely must battle with every bit of determination we can muster to root out the harm that wo... WESS STAFFORD We almost made love with fire, fire in our eyes, fire in our souls, and even in our bones. TAMARA STAMENKOVIC If life's journey was intended to be easy, we would have been given directions. However, since we ha... VIRGINIA ALISON We must remember, however, that art is of value only to the extent that it speaks to us. It might be... KAKUZō OKAKURA It would be so much better if we could share our insecurity, if we could all venture inside ourselve... MURIEL BARBERY All of us, regardless of how we identify, need a community in which to grow our faith. We require th... JAMES LECESNE All of us want to live, and that is absolutely natural. However, we should learn from childhood on t... YAMAMOTO TSUNETOMO Our country--whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, or
however otherwise bounded or desc... ROBERT C. WINTHROP But if our hopes are betrayed, if we are forced to resist the invasion of our soil, and to defend ou... ALBERT II OF BELGIUM I feel that every day, all of us now are being blasted by information design. It's being poured ... DAVID MCCANDLESS If we expect our children to thrive at our colleges and universities, and succeed in our economy onc... KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND Music is critical in our lives and culture. It's the inspiration that drives us. It's also t... BILL WALTON We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those w... ARTHUR ASHE Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders'... MAYA ANGELOU Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like ch... JULIAN GREEN Our nation's military and law enforcement personal work hard to protect us. We must thank them f... LEONARD BOSWELL Pursued by our origins... we all are. EMILE M. CIORAN We would not be where we are without everyone on this team. All the players, our managers, our four ... MARILYN CODDENS All plants are our brothers and sisters. They talk to us and if we listen, we can hear them. AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB When I look in the mirror, I see a woman with secrets. When we don’t listen to our intuition, we a... TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves. ZOE LISTER-JONES Because we are human we have a long childhood, and one of the jobs of that childhood is to sculpt ou... E.L. KONIGSBURG Words are like seeds, I think, planted into our hearts at a tender age. They take root in us as we g... TAHEREH MAFI We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have be... ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have be... ARNOLD JOSEPH TOYNBEE We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have be... ARNOLD TOYNBEE We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have be... ARNOLD TOYNBEE I tell people all the time, 'Don't give up.' We get almost to our blessing, whether you ... SAM CHILDERS I feel like our culture is so good at pulling other people down and being so judgmental, but there... TRACEE ELLIS ROSS We are investing because competition is fierce in our industry. Our product is almost a commodity so... ED SANCHEZ Congress has an obligation to protect our country's natural beauty, embodied in our nation's... DAVE REICHERT I believe each of us is a pilgrim in our own way; we are all lost souls, trying to find our way home... SETH ADAM SMITH In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased.... AIDEN WILSON TOZER Our most important job as vegetable gardeners is to feed and sustain soil life, often called the soi... JANE SHELLENBERGER We sow our thoughts, and we reap our actions; we sow our actions,
and we reap our habits; we sow ou... DESIDERIUS GERHARD ERASMUS There are many secrets in us, in the depths of our souls, that we don't want anyone to know abou... CHARLES DURNING For many Taiwanese, almost all Taiwanese, we'd like to we say we are a country, and we have a so... TSAI ING-WEN Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our ... AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO The empathy I found reading 'Heidi' and 'Little Women' is empathy we have as human b... JEWELL PARKER RHODES No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to the development of su... ORSON F. WHITNEY We've sweated and torn out our hair trying to reconstruct our chosen lives, to fashion them like... NIGEL HAMILTON No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the... ORSON F. WHITNEY We wish our music could reach every person in the world. When we play, we play with our souls. We wa... ALBERT MAZIBUKO The topics we learn from our four core subjects during our childhood and adolescent stage of our liv... SAAIF ALAM I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in... MARGARET ATWOOD Our true identity is to love without fear and insecurity. Our higher potential finds us when we set ... DOC CHILDRE No person, no place, and no thing has any power over us, for 'we' are the only thinkers in o... LOUISE L. HAY We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are aro... JOHN LOCKE All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions. LEONARDO DA VINCI The '$O$' phase, it was like, 'Save Our Souls': we didn't know how we were going... WATKIN TUDOR JONES Death, like so much in life, is a lesson, which must be understood and cherished, not feared; it is ... IMANIA MARGRIA If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living ... LUTHER BURBANK If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living... LUTHER BURBANK There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more ... MAYA ANGELOU Purify our minds that we may be "first pure, then peaceable," and fortify our souls, that our peacea... CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Brokenness is just like beauty; it's something we wear and carry, and if we let it define us, it wil... LAUREN MILLER We've got our own daylight to get bad thoughts away, and we talk with that light - our star in o... INDRA DEVI In this time of war, and in memory of our fallen heroes, we must be mindful to do everything in our ... SENATOR JOHN KERRY And He that made man for love, by the same love He would restore man to the same bliss, and overpass... JULIAN OF NORWICH Blood It's something that none of us can live without and friends are not someone and they are our t... PALITHA ARIYARATHNA Our society loves raw character; we love raw women. We don't love our mother because she is hot ... KANGANA RANAUT Until we heal the root cause of our suffering, and awaken to our true nature, our inherent confusion... JOSEPH P. KAUFFMAN It's okay to take time for yourself. We give so much of ourselves to others and we need to be fu... FAITH HILL I wouldn't want everybody to be an art or literature major, but the world would be poorer - figu... NICHOLAS KRISTOF And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must ... THOMAS JEFFERSON The best stories come from deep within us and are of us. Either our inner child comes out to play an... JUDITH KOHNEN We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob... WILLIAM BOOTH Our relatives form the natural setting of our childhood. We understand ourselves best and are best u... LUCY LARCOM We were able to maintain our current prices in spite of increases in materials and shipping costs, .... ETHAN ALLEN It’s that time of the year again, when we celebrate the lost souls. A tribute to all lost soul who... LILY CHATTERJEE We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destini... LES BROWN The measure of our souls is not in the love we take, but in the love we give in unconditional measur... JILL ANZINGER We must not be afraid to push boundaries; instead, we should leverage our science and our technology... JASON SILVA We cannot sit still and see the dear Burmans, flesh and blood like ourselves and, like ourselves, po... ADONIRAM JUDSON We spend our spare time taking care of little things. I can watch a little bit of college and profes... KEVIN A. FORD It is time to come home, America. Time to look within our own borders and within our own souls. Ther... ROBERT BYRD We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our herit... NAGUIB MAHFOUZ We alone control our final form through our conscious actions. We become the product of the movement... KILROY J. OLDSTER Because they are so emphatically there, and so inconvertibly interior, it is almost inevitable that ... EUGENE H. PETERSON We don't want a third party who may or may not have our best interests in mind or our crew membe... DAVID NEELEMAN The freedom to express yourself without fear - that perhaps is something we in the U.S. take for gra... FRIEDRICH ST. FLORIAN Our landscapes connect us to our history; they are the source of our character as a peopl, as well a... ROBERT KENNEDY, JR. We ought to be beating our chests every day. We ought to look in the mirror, stick out our chests, s... JAY GARNER It's time we join together and literally take our county back. EVELYN HOBSON We are, at least in part, who we remember ourselves to be. Take away our memories, and you take away... BETH REVIS It's not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life that ultimately nourish our souls.... FRED ROGERS Our communications reflect in our countenance. Therefore, we must be careful not only what we commun... L. LIONEL KENDRICK We are so caught up in our media, in our jobs, in our gossip, and in our consuming that we genuinely... TINASHE We make our people weak, shallow and poor when we are emphasizing on miracles all the time. SUNDAY ADELAJA We don't take care of our teachers and our cops and our firemen. They should be at the top of ou... BRAD GARRETT We all have voices in our heads which talks to us on an almost constant basis. Our voices give us me... JULIENE BERK We would especially like to thank our Mom and Dad and our family for supporting us. AMBER ALLISON It's so easy to get whisked away in the hubbub of friends, work and busy-ness, but we need to ta... GRACE GEALEY We tend to block off many of our senses when we're staring at a screen. Nature time can literall... RICHARD LOUV To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the... ALEX GREY To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we mus... CONFUCIUS
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JOHN OATES Having a mustache and never smiling became a permanent component of my persona through the quaintly ... JOHN OATES My mustache has become this weird iconic representation of a certain era. JOHN OATES I couldn't wait to grow a mustache. I stopped shaving my upper lip the day I graduated from high... JOHN OATES The key, I think, from a business point of view, is to learn how to be efficient in making a record ... JOHN OATES I think people were just starving for good material because they just weren't getting it on the ... JOHN OATES I think in music and a lot of creative fields, people's egos get in the way of their ability of ... JOHN OATES Jam Cruise is actually a comfortable place for me. My jamming skills and my improvisational skills h... JOHN OATES You don't want to pitch a tent and live inside the Louvre. You want to check it out, appreciate ... JOHN OATES I'm a bit more grounded than Daryl. I'm more practical, more pragmatic. Daryl looks more at the crea... JOHN OATES Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do. JOHN OATES My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and R&B. JOHN OATES I don't care if it's a Cole Porter song, or George Gershwin, or Lennon/McCartney, or Elton J... JOHN OATES Sometimes, it's just great to bring new people into the mix. JOHN OATES A good mustache makes a man for many reasons. JOHN OATES There's always a personal satisfaction in writing a song by yourself. You get the inspiration, a... JOHN OATES If anyone looks back to the '70s, '80s with nostalgic rosy colored glasses and goes, 'We... JOHN OATES Dick Clark's 'American Bandstand' spread the gospel of American pop music and teenage st... JOHN OATES I have such a wide variety of tastes in things that I like musically. JOHN OATES The mustache represented the old John; I didn't want to be that guy anymore, so I shaved it off.... JOHN OATES I realized if I'm not really making an album, I don't have to be concerned about things like... JOHN OATES He would be overjoyed. To see the outpouring of love from the fans, the former players and the Range... GLORIA OATES This is just a very strong testimony to the life Johnny lead. GLORIA OATES It's absolutely awesome the turnout that we've had here. Friends from as far back as high school and... GLORIA OATES I am just going outside and may be some time. CAPTAIN LAWRENCE OATES This was a one-on-one encounter between an officer and a violent felon. And there's no question that... CHIEF DANIEL OATES It's so easy to settle for less than God's best for us because we don't always feel like... JOYCE MEYER Yes, God does expect us to live holy, consecrated lives. But not even the best of our intentions can... JOYCE MEYER As a celebrity, you get a certain number of free passes. You're actually in a better position if... JOYCE BROTHERS There is such a thing as bad publicity. JOYCE BROTHERS I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know abo... JOYCE BROTHERS I have found in work that you only get back what you put into it, but it does come back gift-wrapped... JOYCE BROTHERS The topic of trust is an important factor in all matters of the heart - and here's why. Men lie ... JOYCE BROTHERS Never try to negotiate with anyone after he or she has eaten. People are best persuaded on an empty ... JOYCE BROTHERS Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The han... JOYCE BROTHERS