Winning Beauty Pageant Quotes & Sayings

My mother really wanted me to be in possibly a beauty pageant, not only for if I could win, but it helped improve my self-image because of trauma in my childhood and other issues. — Pam Grier

Sometimes, you get portrayed the way you don't want to be portrayed. — Gina Carano

What I have experienced is nothing compared to what political prisoners in prisons suffer. — Aung San Suu Kyi

God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano. — Leo Kottke

The greatest flight I've ever flown was coming home. — Marcel Dionne

Call me crazy - I love elk meat! — Zoe Saldana

What is already woven cannot be undone. It will not make the trees grow again for you to bring the building down on our heads. — Robert Jordan

He's an angel. Isn't he supposed to love everyone, even the damned? Especially when said damned are his drinking buddies. — Richelle Mead

When I was young, I used to go to Baha'i camp, and they taught me a lot about the equality of religions. — Cass McCombs

Somewhere a woman is praying her toddler wins a beauty pageant. I say this because sometimes people wonder why God lets tornadoes happen. — Dana Gould

I remember once being told by a casting person, years ago, that I shouldn't pursue a career in the business because of the color of my skin. The fact that I remember it today means it stuck with me. I thought that was really stupid advice and advice nobody should ever give someone. — Manish Dayal

The art of work ... It is going to your work as you go to worship, with a prayer of thankfulness and the aspiration to serve. — Wilferd Peterson

I used to think that people who regarded everyone benignly were a mite simple or oblivious or just plain lax-until I tried it myself. Then I realized that they made it only look easy. Even the Berditchever Rebbe, revered as a man who could strike a rock and bring forth a stream, was continually honing his intentions. "Until I remove the thread of hatred from my heart," he said of his daily meditations, "I am, in my own eyes, as if I did not exist." — Marc Ian Barasch

Every virtue is a form of obedience to God. Every evil word or act is a form of rebellion against Him. This may not be clear at first; but, if we think patiently, we shall find that it is true. Why were you angry? You will probably find that it w as because you were not willing to accept the world as God has made it, or because you were not willing to leave it to God to deal with the people that He has made. — Stephen Neill

In December 1981, the American-trained Atlacatl Battalion began its systemic execution of over 750 civilians in the Salvadoran village of El Mozote, including hundreds of children under the age of 12. The soldiers were thorough and left only one survivor. At first they stabbed and decapitated their victims, but they turned to machine guns when the hacking grew too tiresome (a decade later, an exhumation team digging through the mass graves found hundreds of bullets with head stamps indicating that the ammunition was manufactured in Lake City, Missouri, for the U.S. government). — Greg Grandin