Bestowments Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes boys grew up to be women. And girls grew up to be men. — Leah Raeder

You can be as devoted and loving a spouse or a caregiver or child, but you also have to remember that you have to program time for yourself in there, because it will renew you. — Jeanne Phillips

When we uphold the rule of law, our counterterrorism tools are more likely to withstand the scrutiny of our courts, our allies, and the American people. — John O. Brennan

The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy. — Bjork

And in the case of superior things like stars, we discover a kind of unity in separation. The higher we rise on the scale of being, the easier it is to discern a connection even among things separated by vast distances. — Marcus Aurelius

Mothers who love their children take them along. — Maxine Hong Kingston

Most female CEOs have been more understanding than their male counterparts, of the stress that new mothers experience to 'do it all,' which often means, 'all by themselves.' Why? They've been there. They understand the policies needed to keep women in the workforce. — Madeleine M. Kunin

I'm not interested in trying to work on people's perceptions. I am who I am, and if you don't take the time to learn about that, then your perception is going to be your problem. — Jim Brown

Don't try to fix me, I'm not broken... — Evanescence

I played pretty well in my twenties, don't get me wrong! But my consistency is better [in my thirties], my momentum is better, my wins are quicker. — Serena Williams

Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European earth-dwellers, the adventure played out in the heart of the New World signifies in the first place that it was not our world and that we bear responsibility for the crime of its destruction. — Claude Levi-Strauss

The truth of the matter is I stayed in L.A. raising my children, and when they went to college, I packed my bags along with them and came to New York and looked for parts in the theatre, because that's always what I preferred doing. — Andrea Martin

Do not give in to the urge to extinguish oneself in the waters of the world, but instead be a light above those waters to help guide the way. — Neal Shusterman

Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation. — Owen Paterson