quotes about Popular Vote

“I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg.”

“Let not young souls be smothered out Before they do quaint deeds And fully flaunt their pride.”

Source : Vachel Lindsay (1992). “The Congo and Other Poems”, p.38, Courier Corporation

“Friendship warms like a sunbeam; charms like a good story; inspires like a brave leader; binds like a golden chain; guides like a heavenly vision....”

“Across the board, from my mother to my father to my aunts and uncles, everybody has always given me a lot of love.”

“This longing for knowledge makes the real artist brave. He never adheres to the first image that appears to him, because he knows that this is not necessarily the richest and more correct. He sacrifices one images for another more intense and expressive, and he does this repeatedly until new and unknown visions strike him with their revealing spell.”

“There are sorrows that are not painful, but are of the nature of some acids, and give piquancy and flavor to life.”

“My mom passed away at 41 from diabetes. And I'm 42, thank you. I didn't want to do that to my son. So any time I was at the gym, that thing that helped me do that last squat was my son calling some other woman mommy. And that would just give me that extra oomph to do that last squat. I want to be around for him.”

“I'm inspired by the work of those (and sometimes even the people themselves) who strive to inspire.”

Source : "Origin Series: Empire Actor Adam Rodriguez". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

“A man without hands came to the door to sell me a photograph of my house. Except for the chrome hooks, he was an ordinary-looking man of fifty or so.”

“There is a wealth of unexpressed love in the world.”