Citations For Direct Quotes & Sayings

No one can take the place of a friend, no one. — Maya Angelou

But ah! what once has been shall be no more! The groaning earth in travail and in pain Brings forth its races, but does not restore, And the dead nations never rise again. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I now understand that writing fiction was a seed planted in my soul, though I would not be ready to grow that seed for a long time. — Sue Monk Kidd

Comedy is much more challenging, because you have to have the same level of belief but you have to make people laugh, and that's definitely a challenge. — Jenna Elfman

I strongly believe that at this point in America's history, we need a president that will not just continue basically the policies we have been following in recent years. I think we need a transformational figure. I think we need a president who is a generational change. — Colin Powell

I personally think that we can win the World Cup. We are improving with every game. With such a young average age in the squad we can only carry on improving. — Ruud Van Nistelrooy

I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to say with icy superiority). — Gore Vidal

I have heard it said - usually behind my back - that Black Lesbians are not normal. But what is normal in this deranged society by which we are all trapped? I remember, and so do many of you, when being Black was considered not normal, when they talked about us in whispers, tried to paint us, lynch us, bleach us, ignore us, pretend we did not exist. We called that racism.
I have heard it said that Black Lesbians are a threat to the Black family. But when 50 percent of children born to Black women are born out of wedlock, and 30 percent of all Black families are headed by women without husbands, we need to broaden and redefine what we mean by family.
I have heard it said that Black Lesbians will mean the death of the race. Yet Black Lesbians bear children in exactly the same way other women bear children, and a Lesbian household is simply another kind of family. Ask my son and daughter. — Audre Lorde

Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like 'The Grudge', I look in the corners of my room for the next two days. — Vanessa Hudgens

Washington DC is happiest when in indignation overdrive. — George F. Will

Sometimes I feel that the world is made up of sensible people who know the plot and bloody idiots who don't. — Terry Pratchett

Jesus' call to bear the cross places all who follow him in the community of the forgiveness of sins. Forgiving sins is the Christ-suffering required of his disciples. It is required of all Christians. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I've been homeschooled since ninth grade. — Jessica Sanchez

The belief that we are defending the highest good of the mothers of our race and the ultimate welfare of society makes every sacrifice seem trivial, every duty a pleasure. — Carrie Chapman Catt

Every person of learning is finally his own teacher. — Thomas Paine