R.X. Bird Quotes

Strength is not nearly as important as desire. I don't think you can teach anyone desire. I think it's a gift. I don't know why I have it, but I do.

Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon for the next generation.

I have become an environmentalist, because it is over the environment that the last of the Indian Wars will be fought.

Moral power is always more dangerous to an oppressor than political force.

I have just dropped into the very place I have been seeking, but in everything it exceeds all my dreams.

Globalization by the way of McDonald’s and KFC has captured the hearts, the minds, and from what I can see through the window, the growing bellies of the folks here.

The judiciary must not take on the coloration of whatever may be popular at the moment. We are guardian of rights, and we have to tell people things they often do not like to hear.

Surely one advantage of traveling is that, while it removes much prejudice against foreigners and their customs, it intensifies tenfold one's appreciation of the good at home.

The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.

When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro.

To be successful, you have to expose yourself to different situations-different styles of play, different teammates, different coaching.

There is Indian time and white man's time. Indian time means never looking at the clock. ... There is not even a word for time in our language.

Eminem. My son was listening to that and I was like, “What is that junk?” Then I started listening and I thought, You know, that kid is pretty good. It's the storytelling.

The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.

I'm a bit of a perfectionist, but you have to know you're going to make mistakes. It's how you respond to those mistakes that counts.

Wildflowers are the stuff of my heart!

Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.

When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, 'cause that was the best game. And these guys, they'd let me play. And they were black guys.

Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade.

Other women who flew were women of independent means. But I had to do something with it.

Well I'm still working on The Incredibles. So I'm going to take a little time off. I've got a couple of tricks up my sleeve. I'm not ready to talk about them yet, but expect the unexpected.

One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline.... But also every single day a kid needs a break.

I have found a dream of beauty at which one might look all one's life and sigh.

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

He wore his fear on his skin for everyone to see.

I'm a firm believer in that you play the way you practice.

Your brand image is primarily an emotional construct. Emotion is probably always more powerful in swaying people than reason, but people like to be able to rationalize their choices.

People only buy when they're ready to buy. Not when you're ready to sell

We didn't have a generation gap, we had a generation Grand Canyon.

A bird is safe in its nest - but that is not what its wings are made for.

Basketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.

Maybe it's God disguised as Michael Jordan.

I just shoot until I feel good.

I've done my share of busking, and it's fun until it isn't. There are musicians in the subways that will make you cry, they're so good.

It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.

I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.

I'll play until my knees fall off.

To make something really great and different and interesting means taking risks and following these ideas in your head.

We all have impossible dreams and we do what we can to pursue them.

Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.

To me, women's lib was mainly a white, upper-middle class affair of little use to a reservation Indian woman.

I think I'm still a little too intense for my own good sometimes.

The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.

Constraint inspires creativity

The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.

Foisting an identity on people rather than allowing them the freedom and space to create their own is shady.

I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

The coach has turned into a pumpkin and the mice have all run away.

Japan offers as much novelty perhaps as an excursion to another planet.