Vestavia Quotes & Sayings

The US is headed for ruin and revolution. The revolution will almost certainly be put down, violently. But the ruin cannot be stopped. — Bill Bonner

The Bible holds up before us ideals that are within sight of the weakest and the lowliest, and yet so high that the best and the noblest are kept with their faces turned ever upward. It carries the call of the Saviour to the remotest corners of the earth; on its pages are written the assurances of the present and our hopes for the future — William Jennings Bryan

It was difficult being a neutral broadcaster - in the people's eyes - because of my association with the Celtics. — Tom Heinsohn

Tell me who your enemy is, and I will tell you who you are. — Carl Schmitt

All of this is because our conscious mind is intended as a focusing tool, not a storage place. When we seek to keep all the things we have to do in our head, they constantly pull at our attention and become a large source of our stress. — Matt Perman

If children conform to the standards set by their peers, in the seventies and eighties the peer pressure for black children to keep with their own was intense. Before desegregation, "acting white" was a phrase no one had ever heard with regard to school involvement or academics. Yet in the wake of busing, it rose to become one of the most hurtful insults one black student could level at another. Talking white, dressing white, being enthusiastic about anything "white" was forsaking one's own. For the thirty-eight black students at Vestavia, there was the black cafeteria table and there were the other cafeteria tables, and it was one or the other. There was no going back and forth. — Tanner Colby

Janusz Korczak, Ghetto Diary (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2003), p. x. "adhesions, — Diane Ackerman