Ceremonially Names Quotes & Sayings

I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in 'We, the people.' — Barbara Jordan

Who's straight? I'm not. I am bent gouged pinched and tugged at, and squeezed into this funny shape. Each life is a game of chess that went to hell on the seventh move, and now the flukey play is cramped and slow, a dream of constraint and cross-purpose, with each move forced, all pieces pinned and skewered and zugzwanged ... But here and there we see these figures who appear to run on the true lines, and they are terrible examples. They're rich, usually. — Martin Amis

How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra! — Ernest Hemingway,

Nobody is more truthful when he's acting than De Niro. — Billy Crystal

The Islamic Revolution of Iran is honourable for it is the cry which has its origin in Ayatollah Khomeini's conscience. — Ruhollah Khomeini

Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper void of all characters, without any ideas. How comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from EXPERIENCE. — Steven Pinker

It'd felt good to be part of an "us," with the same thoughts, the same feelings, the same miseries. — Jennifer Brown

Before you conclude that your options are limited, you need evidence that you cannot do something, rather than just deciding that you cannot do it. — Sherwin B. Nuland