Bissessar Plant Quotes & Sayings

If I could offer a single prescription for the survival of America, and particularly black America, it would be to restore the family. And if you asked me how to do it, my answer - doubtlessly oversimplified - would be; save the boys. — William Raspberry

I told personal stories the way [Bill] Cosby would spin a yarn for ten minutes. I think in hindsight it works better as a long story than as a condensed monologue. — Ed Helms

In the ideal state a leader ensures that each man is effective in just the right capacity. — Timur Vermes

Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, they never get around to what they want to do. — Kathleen Winsor

Smile for the camera, pretty little Sydney Tar Ponds. — Rebecca McNutt

No act is so private it does not seek applause. — John Updike

She used her heart to love him, not her head, not her words and not her thoughts or ideas or feelings or any other vehicle or object or device people use to deliver love or love-like things. She used her heart, as a physical transmitter of love, and what came out of it was no more voluntary than gravity or time or time travel or the laws of fictional science itself. — Charles Yu

There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous. — Benjamin Franklin

From the moral as from the intellectual point of view, the child is born neither good nor bad but master of his destiny. — Jean Piaget

There are those who dance the notes, and those who dance the music. — Eva Ibbotson

We are to blame for this destruction, we who don't speak your tongue and don't know how to keep quiet either. We who didn't come by boat, who dirty up your doorsteps with our dust, who break your barbed wire. We who came to take your jobs, who dream of wiping your shit, who long to work all hours. We who fill your shiny clean streets with the smell of food, who brought you violence you'd never known, who deliver your dope, who deserve to be chained by neck and feet. We who are happy to die for you, what else could we do? We, the ones who are waiting for who knows what. We, the dark, the short, the greasy, the shifty, the fat, the anemic. We the barbarians. — Yuri Herrera

The ignorant is a house without windows; the intellectual is a window without house! One lives without light; other lives in too much light! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Whatever they've done to me, Tarver, whatever I am
I love you. Don't forget that. — Amie Kaufman