S.L. Walker Quotes

But if by some miracle and all our struggle, the earth is spared, only justice to every living being will save humankind.

Humans - whatever billions we are - we don't have the control. We are considered expendable, basically.

Small disconnected facts, if you take note of them, have a way of becoming connected.

HELPED are those whose every act is a prayer for peace; on them depends the future of the world.

You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about.

Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.

I would think a lot more would be done to demand justice, to demand that officials in Belgrade have a serious investigation.

Children notice things first, people later.

Learn to read slow; all other graces will follow in their proper places.

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone.

Whether or not patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, national security can be the last refuge of the tyrant.

The artist...is the voice of the people.

Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard.

I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.

In the heart or every caregiver is a knowing that we are all connected. As I do for you, I do for me.

I was determined to make Renaissance Man Food Services and Herschel's Famous 34 major players in a very tough industry.

I used to want to be a lawyer, but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.

It must become a right of every person to die of old age. And if we secure this right for ourselves, we can, coincidentally, assure it for the planet.

Curiosity is my natural state and has led me headlong into every worthwhile experience (never mind the others) I have ever had.

People will say to you, "Oh, you are fearless." That is so not true. We should stop saying that about people. It's a slander, really.

I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

Listen, God loves everything you love, and a mess of stuff you don't.

My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to keep and to embrace my "maiden" name, Walker.

I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's my religion.

Abortion is an act of self-defense.

I know the world that I am painting is not a reality. It is a whim, an entertainment to provoke something in people, whether as escapism or relief. I think that is very valid.

In the far upper corner of my altar is a photo of Joan Crawford in her most fierce Mommy Dearest mode, just to remind me of some of the cost of everyone's hard-earned sweetness and light.

I feel like to be where you need to be - where you know you need to be - is such a high. What could be better?

My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?

I'd consider myself a flailing comedy writer.

Why do I feel you hear these prayers of mine, when so many ought to be ahead of me in line?

Baby, your nothing but too much trouble. Gotta bury this love and bury the shovel.

Because I had worked the river boats some summers, pushing as far as New Orleans, I joined the Merchant Marine.

If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys.

When I started out as a little kid, I didn't say 'I just want to run football.' I wanted to be a great athlete.

Counting time is not as important as making time count.

It is a major sin to break a contract, especially in military situations.

What America needs is a political revolution.

I think there is a period of esthetic discovery that happens to a man and he can do all sorts of things at white heat.

Fear is ... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.

We are so excited for what's next. I think that's what I love most about it, the energy and the excitement that comes from that.

Always half an hour a day where it's just me and my yoga mat.

I always like the current one [collection] the most, that's just my nature!

You have to raise the bar. Give yourself a challenge. Ask yourself, 'How can one make the impossible materialise?'

I'm in my usual state up here in the commentary box: high tension, heart beating like a trip hammer, whatever that is.