Emmett Tills Mom Quotes & Sayings

I had post-traumatic amnesia, five-second memory, it happens as a result of brain injury. — Richard Hammond

The Birmingham campaign was a repeat of SCLC's 1961 campaign in Albany, Georgia, which turned out a complete failure. King was banking on being able to fill up the jails and still have recruits willing to engage in civil disobedience, shutting the system down, but the authorities simply made their jails "bottomless" by shipping detainees elsewhere. A couple years later, black residents of Albany rioted, suggesting what they thought about their experience with nonviolence (these riots are not mentioned in most chronologies of the movement). — Anonymous

We never do any thing well, unless we love it for its own sake. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Laurelyn can be difficult to read at times, but she's hurting and I want to give her the support she deserves. She damn sure doesn't get it from anyone else in her life. — Georgia Cates

Silicon Valley, "the largest legal creation of wealth in history," was built largely by unprofessional amateurs using math, sand, and the institutions of freedom. The Soviet Union had the greatest mathematicians on earth, and plenty of sand, but without the institutions of freedom their brilliant mathematicians were not empowered to create those devices that are changing the world. — Michael Strong

Being able to open your third eye also gives you a quick and easy avenue to relax both your mind and your body, something that leaves you well placed to make objective decisions in whatever you are doing. — L. Jordan

What is divine? It is simply that which man has not been able to understand. Once you do, it loses its divinity. — Ashwin Sanghi

May my silences become more accurate. — Theodore Roethke

Read a lot. But read as a writer, to see how other writers are doing it. And make your knowledge of literature in English as deep and broad as you can. In workshops, writers are often told to read what is being written now, but if that is all you read, you are limiting yourself. You need to get a good overall sense of English literary history, so you can write out of that knowledge. — Theodora Goss

I was saying the other day, how often the most vulnerable area for goalies is between their legs. — Andy Gray

RANGE-FINDING The battle rent a cobweb diamond-strung And cut a flower beside a ground bird's nest Before it stained a single human breast. The stricken flower bent double and so hung. And still the bird revisited her young. A butterfly its fall had dispossessed A moment sought in air his flower of rest, Then lightly stooped to it and fluttering clung. On the bare upland pasture there had spread O'ernight 'twixt mullein stalks a wheel of thread And straining cables wet with silver dew. A sudden passing bullet shook it dry. The indwelling spider ran to greet the fly, But finding nothing, sullenly withdrew. — Robert Frost

M. That's what I call her, this normal, nonexistent me. It's not that I've never done those things, kissed or danced or just "hung out." I have. But it was put-on, a character, a lie. I am so good at it - lying - but I can't lie to myself. I can pretend to be M; I can wear her like a mask. But I can't be her. I'll never be her. — Victoria Schwab

To celebrate man is to celebrate God — Sunday Adelaja