Cherundolo Obituary Quotes & Sayings

Trent Lott has regained a position of leadership. He was the former majority leader who lost his post for racially insensitive commentary. I believe he mentioned that Strom Thurmond in 1948, who ran as a segregationist candidate, should have won ... But now, sound the irony alarm. He has recaptured a position and his position
I kid you not
in the Senate will be minority whip. So, my guess is he takes to that job like, let's say, white on rice. — Jon Stewart

At age twenty-six, Virchow wrote passionately that terrible social conditions in an impoverished part of Germany called Upper Silesia were the cause of a malaria and dysentery epidemic. His recommendation to the German government: if it wanted to do something about the epidemic, it needed to end the malnutrition, overcrowding, and poor hygiene. Better yet, he added, allow for a full and unlimited democracy in Upper Silesia. — Tracy Kidder

No matter how tough the situation, you still have to hang on. — Lailah Gifty Akita

But she stayed where she was a moment longer, like an animal which has been kept in a cage so long it cannot believe in freedom even when it is offered. — Stephen King

She has been trying to pull her worth from him for so long. She has been trying to extract her beauty from his skin. She has been dying to be loved by him again ... but he will always leave her empty — Coco J. Ginger

The average investor does significantly worse than a simple index ... It's literally because of the way our brains are wired. — James O'Shaughnessy

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. — Pablo Picasso

I always have more fun when I stay in hostels - you just meet so many more people. A hotel makes sense when you're doing work things, but travelling, you don't really get a feel for a place if you're in a hotel. I find it seems to make it all feel like everywhere else. — Margot Robbie

It sounds corny, but I never have avoided the challenges - I relish them - I think it's what make me tick, to a certain extent. — Raymond Kelly

Prison is designed to break one's spirit and destroy one's resolve. To do this, the authorities attempt to exploit every weakness, demolish every initiative, negate all signs of individuality
all with the idea of stamping out that spark that makes each of us human and each of us who we are. — Nelson Mandela

In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was young and frightened and craved respect and its ugly cousin, approval, so I did as I was told. — Sherman Alexie

Moreover, the eye contains a big flaw: the retina is inside out. Why would an almighty designer do such a thing? No intelligent designer, .. would put such a clumsy arrangement in a camcorder, and this is just one of the hundreds of accidents frozen in evolutionary history that confirm the mindlessness of the historical process. — Daniel Dennett

It is a well known fact that Abraham Lincoln spent much of his spare time visiting wounded soldiers in Union Army hospitals. I've spent thirty years teaching history at Columbia and I don't think I've spent more than fifteen minutes in the freshman dorm. Are we the ones keeping Lincoln's memory alive? Or are we burying it? — Eric Foner

Out of the simple consonants of the alphabet and our eleven vowels and diphthongs all possible syllables of a certain sort were constructed, a vowel sound being placed between two consonants. — Hermann Ebbinghaus