Battistas Hole Quotes & Sayings

For me patriotism is the sme as humanity. I am patriotic because I am human and humane. It is not exclusive. I will not hurt England or Germany to serve India ... My patriotism is inclusive and admits of no enmity or ill-will. — Mahatma Gandhi

When people saw what had happened to my son, men stood up who had never stood up before. — Mamie Till

If we think of belonging only as membership in a club, organization, or church, we miss the point. Belonging is the risk to move beyond the world we know, to venture out on pilgrimage, to accept exile. And it is the risk of being with companions on that journey, God, a spouse, friends, children, mentors, teachers, people who came from the same place we did, people who came from entirely different places, saints and sinners of all sorts, those known to us and those unknown, our secret longings, questions, and fears. — Diana Butler Bass

tonight the gars on trees are swords in the hands of knights
the stars are like twenty-seven dancing russians and the wind
is — Frank Stanford

Individual investors have become far more powerful than anyone gives them credit for. Today, 85 million Americans invest in stocks. Collectively, that kind of buying and selling power can move markets. — Maria Bartiromo

I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone else's. — Michel De Montaigne

Answers come after questions, not before. Answers answer questions in specific and pointed ways, not in sweeping generalizations. — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

The ring is a copy of my mother's. I took the stone from her engagement ring and had a jeweler place it in a titanium setting."
"Titanium?" I asked.
"Dick knew a guy."
"Of course he did."
"You're a bit rough and tumble with jewelry, and I knew it would have to be able to stand up to ... "
"Nuclear winter?"
His eyebrow lifted. "I never know with you. — Molly Harper

To show a 'well-founded fear of persecution', an alien need not prove that it is more likely than not that he or she will be persecuted in his or her home country. — John Paul Stevens

Why is partying and having a good time bad? — Tara Reid