Destony Quotes

I remember a specific moment,

watching my grandmother,

hang the clothes on the line,

and her saying to me,

you are going to have to learn to do this,

and me being in that space of awareness and knowing,

that my life would not be the same,

as my grandmother's life.

Perseverance is not a long race;

it is many short races one after the other

Walter Elliot

I love the sea.

Christmas waves a magic

wand over this world,

and behold, everything is

softer and more beautiful.

Trust is good,

but control is better.

Dead people receive more flowers than

the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

For every minute you remain angry,

you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

I want everybody to understand that

I am an American Negro first before

I am a member of any political party.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Dream in a pragmatic way.

I never went to school more than six months in my life,

but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections,

I remember how,

when a mere child,

I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me

in a way I could not understand.

The mind is the limit.

As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something,

you can do it.

Happiness is a butterfly,

which when pursued,

is always just beyond

your grasp, but which,

if you will sit down quietly,

may alight upon you.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

I am not a man,

I am Zlatan.

Love yours.

Whatever it is,

love it.

Own it.

Don’t run from it.

Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.

I care not much for a man's religion

whose dog and cat are not the better for it.