Awareness Quotes

"Cuisine is a reflection of our culture and history."

- Josiah Citrin

"But I did know that nobody ever asked me what I wanted for Christmas. Had any adult with the power to fulfill my desires taken me seriously and asked me what I wanted, they would have known that I did not want to have anything to own, or to possess any object. I wanted rather to feel something on Christmas day."

- Toni Morrison

"To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year."

- E. B. White

"Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store. What if Christmas…perhaps…means a little bit more!"

- Dr. Seuss

"Aren’t we forgetting the true meaning of this day – the birth of Santa?"

- Matt Groening

"There are 17 more shopping days until Christmas. So, guys, that means 16 more days till we start shopping, right?"

- Conan O'Brien

"When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable."

- Clifton Fadiman

"The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness."

- Simone de Beauvoir

"If you have the opportunity to play this game called life, you have to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don't appreciate their moment until it's passed"

- Kanye West

"Having money isn't everything, not having it is."

- Kanye West

"Society has put up so many boundaries, so many limitations on what’s right and wrong that it’s almost impossible to get a pure thought out. It’s like a little kid, a little boy, looking at colors, and no one told him what colors are good, before somebody tells you you shouldn’t like pink because that’s for girls, or you’d instantly become a gay two-year-old. Why would anyone pick blue over pink? Pink is obviously a better color. Everyone’s born confident, and everything’s taken away from you"

- Kanye West

"I am not a fan of books. I would never want a book's autograph."

- Kanye West

"Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. I am not a fan of books ... I like to get information from doing stuff like actually talking to people and living real life."

- Kanye West

"Nature's message was always there and for us to see. It was written on the wings of butterflies."

- Kjell B. Sandved

"The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it."

- Gabriel García Márquez

"Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent."

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"The Civil War history industry has conveniently forgotten about the battle of Schrute Farms. Whatever. I’m over it. It’s just grossly irresponsible."

- Dwight Schrute

"When someone smiles at me, all I see is a chimpanzee begging for its life."

- Dwight Schrute

"All you need is love? False. The four basic human necessities are air, water, food and shelter."

- Dwight Schrute

"I never smile if I can help it. Showing one's teeth is a submission signal in primates. When someone smiles at me, all I see is a chimpanzee begging for its life."

- Dwight Schrute

"Identity theft is not a joke, Jim! Millions of families suffer every year."

- Dwight Schrute

"There are three things you never turn your back on: bears, men you have wronged, and a dominant male turkey during mating season."

- Dwight Schrute

"OK. When the baby emerges, mark it secretly in a kind of a mark that only you could recognize and no baby snatcher could ever copy."

- Dwight Schrute

"Security in this office park is a joke. Last year, I came to work with my spud gun in a duffel bag."

- Dwight Schrute

"As a volunteer Sheriff’s Deputy I’ve been doing surveillance for years. One time I suspected an ex-girlfriend of mine of cheating on me, so I tailed her for six nights straight. Turns out… she was. With a couple of guys actually, so… mystery solved."

- Dwight Schrute

"It’s a real shame because studies have shown that more information gets passed through water cooler gossip than through official memos. Which puts me at a disadvantage because I bring my own water to work."

- Dwight Schrute

"I saw Wedding Crashers accidentally. I bought a ticket for Grizzly Man and went into the wrong theater. After an hour, I figured I was in the wrong theater, but I kept waiting. Cuz that’s the thing about bear attacks… they come when you least expect it."

- Dwight Schrute

"There are a huge number of yeast infections in this county. Probably because we’re downriver from that old bread factory."

- Dwight Schrute

"Brace Your Elves – Christmas is coming."

- Unknown

"If you don’t know that, then you don’t know where the finish line is."