Schockman Quotes & Sayings

UN studies conducted in more than forty developing countries show that the birth rate falls as women gain equality ... I believe income-earning opportunities that empower poor women ... will have more impact on curbing population growth that the current system of "encouraging" family planning practices through intimidation tactics.. Family planning should be left to the family. — Muhammad Yunus

Physical strength in a Woman... that's what I am — Tina Turner

Theodore Senior belonged to a class and a generation that considered politics to be a dirty business, best left, like street cleaning, to malodorous professionals. — Edmund Morris

I don't hold memories in my hand, but I'll never let them go. — Esther M. Friesner

The truth was that, with the Duchess de Luxembourg, with Mme de Morienval, Mme de Saint-Euverte and any number of others, the features that made their faces distinctive were a big red nose next to a hare-lip, or two wrinkled cheeks and a faint moustache. Such features cast their own spell well enough since, as a merely conventional form of handwriting, they enabled one to read a famous and impressive name; but ultimately they also gave rise to the notion that ugliness was somehow aristocratic, that it was a matter of indifference that the face of a grand lady should be beautiful, provided that it was distinguished. — Marcel Proust

Horses make a landscape look beautiful. — Alice Walker

As the survivors returned to Confederate lines, Lee met them and sobbed, "It's all my fault this time."158 It was.159 — Edward H. Bonekemper III

Mama always used to say it's better to choke on a bitter truth than savor a honeycake lie. — C.L. Wilson

Spiritual life and secure life do not go together; to save oneself on must struggle and take risks. — Ignazio Silone

All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve. — Francis Bacon

Prayer also forms a type of nutrition for self confidence and keeps you free from worry. It connects you with the main Source of positive energy (Almighty) and recharges you throughout the day. It elevates your plain of thoughts and indirectly guides you to think fruitful and useful thoughts. — Sanchita Pandey