quotes about Woodchucks

“Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.”

“It is amazing where God will take you when you are willing to follow. Life is full of surprises when we choose mystery over security.”

“No matter what. Wherever your mind wanders, it seems to turn up at the same Field of Dreams. It's the vision you wake up with in the morning, and it's the last thing you picture before you fall asleep. Everytime you think of it, the idea in your head seems to get more vivid, filled in with more detail: You not only want to win a gold medal at the Olympics, you not only can see yourself standing there on the podium, but you can also feel the goose bumps as your national anthem is played; the tears are in your eyes. (That's how real a dream can be and should be)”

“Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.”

“We don't care if these girls want to eat their men. That's the Piranha Man's problem. We just want the avocados.”

Source : "Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death". www.imdb.com. 1989.

“I never teach until I've spoken to the fighter. I have to first determine his emotional state, get his background, to find out what I have to do, how many layers I have to keep peeling off so that I get to the core of the person so that he can recognize, as well as I, what is there.”

“You have ... been told that science grows like an organism. You have been told that, if we today see further than our predecessors, it is only because we stand on their shoulders. But this [Nobel Prize Presentation] is an occasion on which I should prefer to remember, not the giants upon whose shoulders we stood, but the friends with whom we stood arm in arm ... colleagues in so much of my work.”

“If the Philippines secure their independence after heroic and stubborn conflicts, they can rest assured that neither England, nor Germany, nor France, and still less Holland, will dare to take up what Spain has been unable to hold.”

“The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.”

Source : Derek Walcott (2014). “What the Twilight Says: Essays”, p.68, Macmillan

“Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.”