Leightons Merced Quotes & Sayings

I was born 50 years after slavery, in 1913. I was allowed to read. My mother, who was a teacher, taught me when I was a very young child. The first school I attended was a small building that went from first to sixth grade. There was one teacher for all of the students. There could be anywhere from 50 to 60 students of all different ages. — Rosa Parks

Why in the hell would anybody think they wanted to take cattle to Montana?" Dixon, the scout, said. He had an insolent look.
"We thought it would be a good place to sit back and watch 'em shit," Augustus said. Insolence was apt to bring out the comic in him. — Larry McMurtry

Man recognizes that he will not die, only when he recognizes that he was never born, but always has been, is, and will be. — Leo Tolstoy

This is insanity!"
"No, this is scholarship! — Brandon Sanderson

I do have a nickname with my family; I'm called Snappy, because I do get to be a bit snippy at times. They call me Snappy Bear. That's from New Hampshire. My dad's called Crazy, my mother's Happy - it's a whole thing. — Eliza Coupe

The innate longing within every soul is to awaken from the spirit's slumber and then to journey home. — Patsie Smith

Whether or not I can get an interview from hip-hop media, that's not going to effect whether or not I can go on tour in Asia and Europe and see all of these different places and experiences. — Le1f

I've always tried to live in the future and think about things and how to make things better. If you have great-grandchildren around, and their pictures are looking at you, well, that's the future. — George P. Shultz

By refusing to pay too much for an investment, you minimize the chances that your wealth will ever disappear or suddenly be destroyed. — Benjamin Graham

What the roses are saying cannot be heard through voice
but through beauty as you watch the rain slip
from their petals and hang from their edges.

(Dena Colhoff, student) — Timothy P. McLaughlin

Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together. — Roger L'Estrange

I am grateful for all the goodness of God. — Lailah Gifty Akita