Inaugurating The United Quotes & Sayings

Economists use the term "human capital" to refer to the skills and abilities and qualities and resources that each individual possesses. And in the late 1990s and early 2000s, human capital became an increasingly popular way to look at the problem of poverty. No one had all the answers yet, but they had, at least, a new set of questions: What specific resources did middle-class children have that allowed them to succeed at such higher rates than poor children? What skills did poor children need to help them compete? And most important, what kind of interventions in their lives or in their parents' lives could help them acquire those skills? — Paul Tough

Flesh forgets. Bone remembers. — Jefferson Bass

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away. — Kim Wilde

Prom has all the elements of a popular story. It reeks of all-Americanness, tension, drama. It has romance. Pretty dresses. Dancing. Limos. High school. Coming of age. — Adora Svitak

I tell you what. Pick it up, open it anywhere, and read three pages. If you can put it down again, I'll pay you a dollar. — Diana Gabaldon

I will now sing another song for your pleasure. Now, if you like Phil Collins ... you should be shot in the head. — Robert Clark

Fear, doubt, and lack are things we must talk about to emerge as associations that thrive for years to come. — Holly Duckworth

I believe there's a God but I'm not too sure of his relevance. — Trent Reznor

They walked, some of them for miles, from rural villages deep in the bush. They came in wheelbarrows, in wheelchairs. They came with babies on their back. They came the night before, some of them sleeping on the hard ground outside the polling booths so they could vote when morning came. The — Helene Cooper

In GENESIS, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen. — Sebastiao Salgado

Enki kisses my ear. He turns my head until I taste just the corner of his mouth. I am crystal clear, I am a pond, I am a light. I am nothing at all. — Alaya Dawn Johnson