Montanha Everest Quotes & Sayings

I didn't receive encouragement from anywhere or anyone saying that I could ever be more than that. All that changed at college. Suddenly, I was told I could do anything. This newly-encountered optimism was utterly confusing to me at first and even felt fake at times - but it made all the difference. Encouragement was the ingredient I needed in my life to start believing in myself. — Cornelia E. Miedler

I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice. And if you're always the new kid, you never get a chance to adapt, so your confidence is just zilch. — Eminem

A pottery outside Paris was turning out his picture on thick glazed crockery in a strident yellow and blue. This is what happens when you become a public figure; people eat their dinners off you. — Hilary Mantel

Priscilla and I, and nine others, had been charged with
'disturbing the peace,' among other charges, because we tried to order food at Woolworth. If not for segregation, and the fact that we were all Negroes, we would have been served without incident. At our trial on March 17, 1960,
Judge John Rudd ruled that our lawyers should
'get off that race question.' — Patricia Stephens Due

I'm at the atheist end of the agnostic spectrum. — Sara Paretsky

Like all explorers, we are drawn to discover what's out there without knowing yet if we have the courage to face it. — Pema Chodron