Founding Fathers Voting Rights Quotes & Sayings

That thought gives rise to a wish. Surely, I find myself daydreaming, there is something, some substance already in common use, that women could drink after sex or at the end of the month, that would keep them unpregnant with no one the wiser. Something you could buy at the supermarket, or maybe several things you could mix together, items so safe and so ordinary they could never be banned, that you could prepare in your own home, that would flush your uterus and leave it pink and shiny and empty without you ever needing to know if you were pregnant or about to be. — Katha Pollitt

The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time. — Mose Allison

Standing in front of the girl's house, Mama yelled up at the windows, "Katie Adams, you whore, give me my husband back!" When Miss Adams' neighbours complained about all the noise Mama was making, my father came down to quiet her. He kissed her until she cried, but didn't come home. — Ami McKay

It was love, of course, though I didn't know it then and Finn was both its subject and object. He accepted love instinctively, without responsibility or conditions, like a wild thing glimpsed through trees. — Meg Rosoff

It's a strange thing, having a child," he said. It completely alters your most fundamental priorities. When my eldest daughter was born, I realized that I would do anything - anything - to protect her. If I had to set myself on fire to save her from something, I would do it with the utmost relief and gratitude. It's quite a thing, quite a privilege, to care about someone so much that the measure of worth of your own life is changed so much."

Tatsu. — Barry Eisler

Stand through life firm as a rock in the sea, undisturbed and unmoved by its ever-rising waves — Hazrat Inayat Khan

Amy planted a glass of brandy beside the bride's cornflakes. — Jane Gardam

The outpouring of Christ's blood is the source of the church's life. — Pope Benedict XVI

You don't know a language, you live it. You don't learn a language, you get used to it. — Benny Lewis

There's not an appropriations bill in the last 10 years that the-that Democrats passed in the Congress. We haven't spent any money of your taxes in the last decade. — Chaka Fattah

The mind feasts on what it focuses on. What consumes my thinking will be the making or the breaking of my identity. — Lysa TerKeurst

I only want to play basketball, and play it well and be happy about it. But I realize that with being famous, comes a lot of demands. — Yao Ming

Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer. — Willa Cather