Snow Falling On Cedars Racism Quotes & Sayings

As long as I live, I'm never going to do what they're doing. I made myself a promise. And now I'm making the promise to you. I'm never going to judge somebody I don't know. And if somebody is accused of something in the newspaper or on TV, I'm going to remember that maybe he did it or maybe he didn't. I wasn't there, so I don't know. — Catherine Ryan Hyde

First concert I ever went to was a group called The Yardbirds. Eric Clapton is the lead guitarist. — Ron Barber

Now multitudes of root words are identical in the American languages over vast areas some of them with precisely the same senses, and others with various shades of analogical meaning. — John W. Dawson

Don't make excuses for why you can't get it done. Focus on all the reasons why you must make it happen. — Ralph Marston

What is the purpose of a city if not to grant the greatest of gifts, anonymity? — Rabih Alameddine

Yet in a society of conflicting interests the only democratic way in which matters can be improved is through politics, and politics means the compromising of extremes in order to achieve that notorious half loaf which the passionate and the outraged never find sufficient. — Gore Vidal

Tell her stories to alleviate her inquietude; for stories always amuse the ladies, and it is only by interesting them that one can succeed in the world. Mambres — Voltaire

While it is important to maintain a balanced approach to solving our nation's energy problems, we must commit ourselves to recognize some areas as 'off limits,' and the Artic National Wildlife Reserve is a national symbol of that commitment. — Ken Salazar

My father was a screenwriter, and I kind of grew up in that world. — Maria Semple