Roots The Next Generation Quotes & Sayings

I'm just afraid somebody's going to stab me one day and think that my power is real and they expect me to start healing. — Hayden Panettiere

I read about a number of generals and colonels who are said to have wandered about exhorting the troops to advance. That must have been very inspirational! I suspect, however, that the men were more interested and more impressed by junior officers and NCOs who were willing to lead them rather than having some general pointing out the direction in which they should go. — Stephen E. Ambrose

What I do know is that when I was sitting with you that night, I felt like God was telling me that I was doing the right thing. — Nicholas Sparks

Nurture the child within oneself and define a new era of global peace and understanding.'-Dalia Qutob — Fida Fayez Qutob & Dalia Qutob

What is character? It is that quality of man which is going to make a man, in an hour of strain, do the just and, if possible, the generous thing. — Douglas Southall Freeman

Unused creativity is not benign. — Brene Brown

As a woman, you should be more at ease with your sexuality when you are in your 40s ... You are more self-assured about that part. And that's the way it should be. — Salma Hayek

Human nature is martial and this trait cannot be eradicated, since it is innate. — Guillaume Faye

If you're running to be president of the United States, you can't just tell people you're going to make America great again. I think you need to begin to explain exactly how you're going to do it policy-wise. We're not going to win a general election with a candidate that refuses to detail policy. — Marco Rubio

It's only been in the past two generations that we truly understood the impact our civilization has had on the natural world. To our credit as a species, we have turned this obscure scientific fact about carbon cycles into one of the most important political issues of the 21st century. — Annalee Newitz

All the terrible things we do to ourselves and others from alcoholism to character assignation to abuse to murder come from one cause: the inability to stay present with an uncomfortable feeling in the body and seek short-term relief. — Pema Chodron

(As a "grandchild of a capitalist household"
At school, I was forbidden to take singing and dancing lessons with the other girls because I was not to "pollute" the arena of the revolution. Even though I was short-sighted, I was not allowed to sit in the front row in class because the best places were reserved for the children born to peasants, workers or soldiers; they were deemed to have 'straight roots and red shoots'. Similarly, I was forbidden to stand in the front row during PE lessons, though I was the smallest in the class, because the place nearest the teacher were for the 'next generation of the revolution'. — Xinran

I realized early on that I always hated girls who used their femininity to get what they wanted. — Amy Locane

My introduction of Whitney was that if there's going to be one performer for the next generation who combined the beauty and lyric phrasing of a Lena Horne with those Gospel fiery roots of an Aretha Franklin, it would be Whitney Houston. — Clive Davis

Guilt soon learns to lie. — Mary Elizabeth Braddon

I think that's every unresolved person's dream, to wake up one day and know what they want to do the rest of their life. — Ashley D. Wallis