Janet Cooke Quotes & Sayings

The environment that we call society is created by past generations; we accept it, as it helps us to maintain our greed, possessiveness, illusion. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

The real heroes of race and culture would always be the people who stepped out of their own line to make a larger circle. — Naomi Shihab Nye

Believe marvels exist around you, inside others, within yourself. Go search for them. Gallop through life and without dismounting your horse manage (like a Cossack!) to pick up bits of otherworldliness lying on the path. Feed your imagination that way. That way, shape your destiny. — Philippe Petit

We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government. — Benjamin Franklin

The reason we life black people isn't because they're black. We like them because they're not as grey as we are. — John Cage

I remember the day when my seventh-grade teacher called my parents to tell them I'd been crying in the bathrooms at lunchtime after Sukey died - how disappointed Dad was that I was using Sukey's death as an excuse to get attention from my teachers; how delicately Mom suggested that Sukey would have wanted me to be happy; my humiliation at letting them down. — Hilary T. Smith

Why can't a woman be a little cooler in her emotions and a little quieter and more repressed without it being a huge thing? I've actually always quite enjoyed that, to tell you the truth. — Anna Torv

My biggest influence is someone I really don't know at all: Tina Fey. Smart, funny, beautiful, self-deprecating, also a mom and a wife. — Laura Benanti

Know what you value, be willing to take a risk, and lead from the heart - lead from what you believe in. — Alan Keith

I consider it an indispensible duty to close this last solemn act of my official life by commending the interests of our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God and those who have the superintendence of them into his Holy keeping. — George Washington

Crime is a product of a distorted mind. — Kiran Bedi

When you do life a certain way, it's bound to give you a higher level of probability to succeed, and that's what we preach. — Andrew Cherng