Quotes & Sayings About Eddie Mabo

The timelessness of a concept has to be woven into the running warp of dying time, vertical power has to be wedded to the horizontal earth. — Ella Maillart

Of course innocent mistakes occur but the accumulated insults and indignations caused by racial presumptions are destructive in ways that are hard to measure. Constantly being suspected, accused, watched, doubted, distrusted, presumed guilty, and even feared is a burden born by people of color that can't be understood or confronted without a deeper conversation about our history of racial injustice. — Bryan Stevenson

I tried marijuana once or twice in England, but didn't like it. I didn't inhale. — William J. Clinton

No one wants to go into a nursing home. My patients fear it; families often feel terrible guilt when the time comes: it is thought of as an abandonment. Nursing homes are where we place our bad outcomes, our frail, our no-longer-independents. They are places people go to wait safely to die. The old doubly incontinents. You might have stood up to Stalin, you might still read Tolstoy, but if you're losing it from both the front and back and you're not a two-year-old, you're going to be hidden away.
"Don't know the nursing homes, they do a pretty good job," a geriatrician said to me. And most of the time they perform their function: as a holding bay for old people. Most of the time. — Karen Hitchcock

The most essential quality for leadership is not perfection but credibility. People must be able to trust you. — Rick Warren

I may not give you as much love as you want, but I will give you as much as I have. — Debasish Mridha

So what's really behind the 'English Only' Movement? Fear. Fear of being taken over and one day they will have to learn something different. Heaven forbid they would have to learn something new. — Cheech Marin

Toil, comrade," he said, "is the highest aim of our lives. Who does not toil, shall not eat." The book was filled. The official applied his rubber stamp to the last page. The stamp bore a globe overshadowed by a crossed sickle and hammer. — Ayn Rand

Don't think about Laika in orbit. Don't think about cringe and catastrophe. — Ada Limon

I did try when I wasn't doing the singing to do as much comedy as I could because I thought with Comic Relief you are duty bound to anyway. — Jo Brand

A teacher told my mother that I would never become successful, which illustrates the difficulty of long-run forecasting on inadequate data. — Clive Granger