Hummingbird Weekly Quote. 2025 Edition.
June 2, 2025
“Tariffs are not going away… [Trump] has so many other authorities that even in the weird and unusual circumstance where this was taken away, we just bring on another or another or another. [The 90 day pause is] the deadline and the president’s just going to determine what rates people have. If they can’t get a deal done, President Trump is going to determine what deal there’s going to be.” U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick
May 26, 2025
“Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country be righteous as well as strong.” James Bryce
May 19, 2025
"The America l’ve sung to you about for 50 years is real, and, regardless of its faults, is a great country with a great people. So we’ll survive this moment. Now, I have hope, because I believe in the truth of what the great American writer James Baldwin said. He said, 'In this world there isn’t as much humanity as one would like, but there’s enough.’ Let’s pray." Bruce Springsteen
May 12, 2025
"Welcome to America. I want you to know that you are really welcome here." Christopher Landau, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State
"It has been painful to watch one group of refugees, selected in a highly unusual manner, receive preferential treatment over many others who have been waiting in refugee camps or dangerous conditions for years." Most Rev. Sean Rowe, Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church, announcing the termination of The Church’s partnership with the Federal Government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling the white Afrikaners.
May 5, 2025
"Fashion and dress have been used in a contest of power and aesthetics for Black people from the time of enslavement to the present, and dandyism has long served as a vehicle through which one can manipulate the relationship between clothing, identity, and power." The history of Black dandyism illustrates how Black people have transformed from being enslaved and stylized as luxury items, acquired like any other signifier of wealth and status, to autonomous, self-fashioning individuals who are global trendsetters." Monica L. Miller, Guest Curator, Author: Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity
April 28, 2025
"Pope Francis was a voice of mercy in a time of noise. He walked with humility, spoke with fire, and dared to love the unloved. He reminded the world that compassion isn't weakness, and faith doesn't have to shout to be heard. May he rest in the eternal peace he so often preached." Attributed to Bob Dylan, but source not confirmed
April 21, 2025
“At 7:35 this morning, the Bishop of Rome, Francis, returned to the home of the Father. His entire life was dedicated to the service of the Lord and of his Church.
"For Pope Francis, (the goal) was always to extend the arms of the church to embrace all people, not to exclude anyone.” Cardinal Kevin Farrell, the Vatican Camerlengo (the individual that takes charge of day-to-day operations after a pontiff’s death [or resignation], until the next pope is elected)
"We are accustomed to the suffering of others, it doesn't concern us, it's none of our business. There is no sin that God's mercy cannot reach and wipe away when it finds a repentant heart seeking to be reconciled with the Father.” Pope Francis
April 14, 2025
“Look, it was a heavy weight to carry, and thankfully now I don’t have to carry it.” Rory McIlroy
April 7, 2025
“Unhappy is the land that needs a hero.” Bertolt Brecht, Life of Galileo (1943).
March 31, 2025
“Have found phenomenal 19 year old boy who could go all the way. Send blank contracts.” George Avakian, Record Producer & Talent Scout, Columbia Records, by telegram sent in 1955 after hearing Johnny Mathis sing
March 24, 2025
"The emotionally immature person needs other people to emotionally stabilize them, make them happy, and also to buffer their self-esteem. When we can get the idea that we’re not in this world to function as a sort of auxiliary coping mechanism for people who can’t do it for themselves, we begin to feel our energy coming back. That’s what happiness is. Happiness is like free energy." Dr. Lindsay C. Gibson, Clinical Psychologist, Author of the book “Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents.” NYT Interview with David Marchese
March 17, 2025
”May you have the hindsight to know where you've been
The foresight to know where you're going
And the insight to know when you're going too far.” An Irish Blessing
March 10, 2025
“We have 80 agencies and firefighting crews and agents and individuals all over working to put up a wet line, as you say, because wet line is our best defense against this spreading. Now, this is no guarantee. We're in a better place right now, but we are very concerned about the overnight and the increase of winds.
“All those images of what happened in the Palisades are so front and center in our minds. We need to be proactive, preventative, and try to stop the worst from occurring with all the power that we have, and that's exactly what we're doing.” NY State Governor Kathy Hochul
March 3, 2025
"Like everybody who has ever shared a scene with him, I learned he was a generous performer whose gifts elevated everyone's work. He received two Oscars, but, more importantly, he won the hearts of film lovers all over the world. Gene always said: 'I don't think about legacy. I just hope people remember me as someone who tried to do good work.' So I think I speak for us all when I say: Gene, you'll be remembered for that — and for so much more. Rest in peace, my friend." Morgan Freeman
February 24, 2025
“Roberta Flack underplays everything with a quietness and gentleness. More than any singer I know, she can take a quiet, slow song (and most of hers are) and infuse it with a brooding intensity that is, at times, almost unbearable.” She had an “amazing ability to get further inside a song than one thought humanly possible and to bring responses from places inside you that you never knew existed.” Julius Lester, Writer and Folklorist (Rolling Stone Review, 2003)
Febrary 17, 2025
“Christian love is not a concentric expansion of interests that little by little extend to other persons and groups.” Pope Francis
February 10, 2025
"I'll be lifted up through the clouds
On the wings of an angel." Levon Helm
February 3, 2025
"WILL THERE BE SOME PAIN? YES, MAYBE (AND MAYBE NOT!). BUT WE WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, AND IT WILL ALL BE WORTH THE PRICE THAT MUST BE PAID." Donald J. Trump, President, USA
January 27, 2025
"It's not the result we were looking for. But I'm very proud of those guys. They fought, they gave it everything they had. They just came up a little short tonight against a very good football team.
"We had some plays where I thought we had a chance to convert a fourth down, a fourth and short, and then another fourth down at the end of the game. It looked like we had a chance to come back, but it didn't work out." Sean McDermott, Head Coach, Buffalo Bills
January 20, 2025
"All year this team has heard we got no talent, we're too small, we can't stop the run, we're not good enough to compete. We just put our heads down and worked hard." Josh Allen, Quarterback, Buffalo Bills
January 13, 2025
"As the fire still rages on and Cal Fire and the Los Angeles Fire Department and all the available first responders and agencies involved in fighting fire and saving lives are still hard at work and neighbors and friends are banding together to save each other, my husband and I and our children have pledged $1 million from our Family Foundation to start a fund of support for our great city and state and the great people who live and love there." Jamie Lee Curtis, Actress, One of Many Supporting the L.A. Community
January 6, 2025
“I do believe very strongly that America’s democracy is only as strong as our willingness to fight for it — every single person, their willingness to fight for and respect the importance of our democracy. Otherwise, it is very fragile and it will not be able to withstand moments of crisis. And today, America’s democracy stood.” Kamala Harris, Vice President, USA
December 31, 2024
"Don't worry about a thing
'Cause every little thing gonna be alright" Bob Marley
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