Dathan And Abiram Quotes & Sayings

As I grew up, I began to discover a little bit about the situation of black people in America and experienced an immediate empathy with the victims of such senseless discrimination. Because although the Turks were never slaves, they were regarded as enemies within Europe because of their Muslim beliefs. — Ahmet Ertegun

It was always part of the plan to move into acting. — Aaliyah

The baby will talk when he talks, relax. It ain't like he knows the cure for cancer and just ain't spitting it out. — Justin Halpern

In Blow-up I used my head instinctively! — Michelangelo Antonioni

That's my punishment in hell, shoveling horseshit. — Malachy McCourt

When you know your worth, no one can dictate your value. — Andria Gaskins

Welfare bureaucracies claim a professional, political, and financial monopoly over the social imagination, setting standards of what is valuable and what is feasible. This monopoly is at the root of the modernization of poverty. Every simple need to which an institutional answer is found permits the invention of a new class of poor and a new definition of poverty. Once basic needs have been translated by a society into demands for scientifically produced commodities, poverty is defined by standards which the technocrats can change at will. Poverty then refers to those who have fallen behind an advertised ideal of consumption in some important respect. — Ivan Illich

I understood that my family was rich in love but would probably never own the land my father, John, dreamed of owning. My mother, Willie Ella Mays Clarke, was a washerwoman for poor white folks in the area of Columbus, Georgia where the writer Carson McCullers once lived. — John Henrik Clarke

wisdom is the ability to cope — Stephen Fry

Honey, have you seen your sister?
She's on Jupiter, Mom. — Diane Duane

I really would like to be able to face all my superstitions that may have existed and walk under the ladder and do everything you're not supposed to do. — Nicolas Cage

Doing nothing can sometimes be the most effective form of action. — Kevin Kwan