Canonization Steps Quotes & Sayings

What I love about the stories of the Great Migration is that this is not ancient history; this is living history. Most people of color can find someone in their own family who had experienced a migration of some kind, knowing the sense of dislocation, longing and fortitude. — Isabel Wilkerson

He'd drop by her place later, see if she was still up. If not, he'd stare at her window, because why not, right? He was stupid with love. No shame in that — Kristan Higgins

Kevin defended him. The parish in Yonkers was 100 percent Irish, he rationalized, and the priest had no choice but to affirm his community's values. I disagreed. Bigotry is not a value. — Sonia Sotomayor

When you consider what a chance women have to poison their husbands, it's a wonder there isn't more of it done — Kin Hubbard

I don't think Iraq could be transformed overnight into a democracy. How can you take a country that doesn't have any kind of tradition of democracy, where its people have been brutalized and repressed for decades, and suddenly impose Jeffersonian ideals? — Elaine Sciolino

Why did I always end up loving the person who hurt me the most? Why was love so cruel? — J.C. Reed