Underprivelaged Quotes & Sayings

Be sure of your call to every business you go about. Though it is the least business, be sure of your call to it; then, whatever you meet with, you may quiet your heart with this: I know I am where God would have me. Nothing in the world will quiet the heart so much as this: when I meet with any cross, I know I am where God would have me, in my place and calling; I am about the work that God has set me. — Jeremiah Burroughs

To perceive that form reveals the void, and to see that the void reveals form, is the secret for the overcoming of death. To the extent that one is unaware of space, one is unaware of one's own eternity - it's the same thing! — Alan Watts

What doesn't draw you into a Coen Bros. movie. It's amazing. I can't believe it! They're the Coen Bros. It's ridiculous. — Carey Mulligan

I never felt out of control. It was just the way I lived my life. I was the neighborhood bully. — Johnny Ramone

Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. — B.K.S. Iyengar

I had plenty of time,' he said, telling himself that was one of the saddest sentences there is. — Laurence Cosse

I am a greaser," Sodapop chanted. "I am a JD and a hood. I blacken the name of our fair city. I beat up people. I rob gas stations. I am a menace to society. Man, do I have fun!"
"Greaser ... greaser ... greaser ... "Steve singsonged. "O, victim of enviornment, underprivelaged, rotton no-count hood!"
Juvenile delinquent, you're no good!" Darry shouted.
Get thee hence, white trash," Two-Bit said in asnobbish voice. "I am a Soc. I am the privelaged and the well-dressed. I throw beer blasts, drive fancy cars, break windows at fancy parties."
And what do you do for fun?" I inquired in a serious, awed voice.
I jump greasers!" Two-Bit screamed, and did a cartwheel. — S.E. Hinton

The little red dot of my rebirth, the Christ Consciousness, the vast galaxy within aching to be explored. — Tahira Amir Khan

No one I interact with - except maybe for family and strangers at the Russian baths and other weird places I may go to - is just friends or lovers with me: they also know something of my writing and this distorts their take on me — Jonathan Ames

One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to children. — Carl Sagan

The confused murmur of his nights began to rise, expected but not familiar — Paul Valery

I think one of the few faults in Dickens is that mostly his lead characters are blanks - who is David Copperfield, who is Oliver Twist? And yet he takes such joy in populating the rest of his novels with these fantastic, grotesque people like Pecksmith and so on. — Mark Gatiss

Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America. — Ernest Istook

As for radio and movies, I like the movies better, although the work is much harder. The cinema has microphone technique, staging, and glamour all wrapped up into one. — Rudy Vallee

I think they do have to get it right in Sierra Leone. There has to be something in there now to establish confidence, to stabilize the situation, and then to move to some sort of political negotiations. — Alex Morrison