Quotes November 30, 2021

“Our decisions about transportation determine much more than where roads or bridges or tunnels or rail lines will be built. They determine the connections and barriers that people will encounter in their daily lives – and thus how hard or easy it will be for people to get where they need and want to go.”
Elijah Cummings
 
 
 
 
I don’t really need to stand out, there’s room for everyone.
Be brave and fearless to know that even if you do make a wrong decision, you’re making it for a good reason.
Adele,
singer, songwriter
 
 
 
 
Having just the vision’s no solution, everything depends on execution.
Anything you do, let it come from you. Then it will be new.
Stephen Sondheim,
composer, lyricist
1930-2021
 
 
 
 
“Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”
Joseph Conrad
 
 
 
 
“A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.”
Theodore Roosevelt
 
 
 
 
Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
Immanuel Kant – 1724-1804 – Philosopher
 
 
 
 
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Ralph Waldo Emerson – 1803-1882 – Lecturer-Poet-Essayist
 
 
 
 
We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
Cynthia Ozick,
writer
 
 
 
 
Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
Samuel Jackson – Actor-Producer
 
 
 
 
I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.
Henry David Thoreau,
naturalist, essayist, poet, philosopher
 
 
 
 
If anything at all, perfection is not when there is nothing to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Maria Tallchief,
ballet dancer, actor
November is Native American Heritage Month
 
 
 
 
All things are our relatives; what we do to everything, we do to ourselves. All is really One.
One should pay attention to even the smallest crawling creature for these too may have a valuable lesson to teach us.
Black Elk,
holy man of the Oglala Sioux tribe
November is Native American Heritage Month