Famous Tom Menino Quotes & Sayings

Okay, this is Fran Lebowitz. She gave an interview once for the Paris Review about trying to write fiction and saying that fiction writers start talking about how characters are talking to them, and it's crazy, she's never had that. And I also thought, I'm never gonna be able to do this, because I didn't feel that for a really long time. — Sloane Crosley

You've always marched to beat of your own drum, and I know you do things in your own time and your own way. — Alexa Riley

I don't desire glory. Glory brings fame, and fame brings jealousy, and jealousy brings danger. — R.A. Salvatore

I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood. — Jonathan Coe

Decisions are necessary as a result of limited resources in time, knowledge, capital, people. — Pearl Zhu

It's all right to have secrets, ... as long as you don't have any secrets from yourself. — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Just like music, sports elevates us to new levels of achievment. — Randy Castillo

Monogamy was the first form of the family not founded on natural, but on economic conditions, viz.: the victory of private property over primitive and natural collectivism. — Friedrich Engels

Latin America is the region of open veins. Everything from the discovery until our times, has always been transmuted into European
or later
United States
capital, and as such has accumulated on distant centers of power. Everything: the soil, its fruits nad its mineral-rich depths, the people and their capacity to work and to consume, natural resources and human resources. — Eduardo Galeano

The history of the United States is the story of people of many backgrounds. — William Loren Katz

It's only human,' you cry in defense of any depravity, reaching the stage of self-abasement where you seek to make the concept 'human' mean the weakling, the fool, the rotter, the liar, the failure, the coward, the fraud, and to exile from the human race the hero, the thinker, the producer, the inventor, the strong, the purposeful, the pure - as if 'to feel' were human, but to think were not, as if to fail were human, but to succeed were not, as if corruption were human, but virtue were not - as if the premise of death were proper to man, but the premise of life were not. — Ayn Rand

You only need to make one big score in finance to be a hero forever. — Merton Miller