Almshouse 59 Quotes & Sayings

People vote for whom they believe will be the best president and representative for our country. The First Lady is not on the ballot. — Venita Ellick

How do you get rid of the trash? It's out there in society, it's going on every day [ ... ] You can educate children an awful lot easier than you can get rid of the trash. — Joycelyn Elders

It is the silence between sounds that create Rhythm. — Nelly Mazloum

When we oppose oppression, we lift our hands from the collective reins that empower such oppression. — Bryant McGill

Pope John Paul II himself was kind of a rather independent, creative man. I remember being told by somebody who worked very close with him in preparation for his first visit to the United States in 1979, he studied our normative documents, Declaration of Independence, the Federalist Papers, the Constitution. And he was amazed. He called his priests first
thing in the morning and he said, he said, I thought America was a pagan country. — Chris Matthews

The worst feature of this double consciousness is, that the two lives, of the understanding and of the soul, which we lead, reallyshow very little relation to each other; never meet and measure each other: one prevails now, all buzz and din; and the other prevails then, all infinitude and paradise; and, with the progress of life, the two discover no greater disposition to reconcile themselves. — Ralph Waldo Emerson