-
“The people who are doing really well and who are getting stopped in airports are the people who are going to say the more outrageous things and get on TV and state their opinion on a regular basis.”
-
“There is always something for which there is no accounting. Take, for example, the whole world.”
Source : Leonard Michaels (2008). “The Collected Stories”, p.404, Macmillan
-
“My biggest regret? Well, I got my ***** done in my early 20's and if I had known it would or could possibly have impacted production of milk, I would never have had them done. I love being a mom.”
-
“I play with children so that I can learn from them.”
-
“There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and tobacco are recognizable poisons, so that their consumption has only to be carried far enough to destroy civilization altogether.”
-
“As long as parents and teachers in general shall fall under the established rule, it is clear that politics and modes of government will educate and infect us all. They poison our minds, before we can resist, or so much as suspect their malignity. Like the barbarous directors of the Eastern seraglios, they deprive us of our vitality, and fit us for their despicable employment from the cradle.”
Source : William Godwin (1798). “Enquiry Concerning Political Justice: And Its Influence on Morals and Happiness”, p.49
-
“I think I can help others just by my example.”
-
“A man who calls his kinsmen to a feast does not do so to save them from starving. They all have food in their own homes. When we gather together in the moonlit village ground it is not because of the moon. Every man can see it in his own compound. We come together because it is good for kinsmen to do so.”
Source : Chinua Achebe (1996). “Things Fall Apart”, p.118, Heinemann
-
“I'm just steadily building myself up as Kelly Rowland, not just Kelly Rowland of Destiny's Child, which is a blessing to be able to do that.”
-
“Reverence, enthusiasm, and a sense of guardianship, these three are actually the panacea, the magical remedy, in the soul of the educator and teacher.”
