3 December 2020 George Weah My father died when I was young and I was raised by my grandmother, Emma Klonjlaleh Brown. We could afford to eat chicken just once a year, on Christmas.
3 December 2020 Erich Fromm Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
3 December 2020 Mary Manin Morrissey Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.
3 December 2020 Midge Ure You think that religion is a thing that is there to help you and to see you through life, and then you wake up one morning and find the entire Irish situation, the civil war that’s based on religion.
3 December 2020 Denis Diderot The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
3 December 2020 Hu Shih On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people.
3 December 2020 Mary Decker I can jog, but I can’t run. That’s hard for me. I like the fact that I can jog for fitness, but to me there’s a huge difference between jogging and running.
3 December 2020 Harry S. Truman The atom bomb was no ‘great decision.’ It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.
3 December 2020 Arthur Smith Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world.
3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art’s version of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. It’s the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good.
3 December 2020 Don Shula And this year is going to be the 25th anniversary of the 17-0 team, the only undefeated season.
3 December 2020 Danny Thomas All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don’t discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It’s what you do for others.
3 December 2020 Christopher Columbus These people are very unskilled in arms… with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.
3 December 2020 LeVar Burton Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process.
3 December 2020 Mia Hamm Sports have become increasingly more specialized, but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be fun.
3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
3 December 2020 George H. W. Bush Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace.
3 December 2020 Bernice Johnson Reagon Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know, some people had religion and some people didn’t have religion.
3 December 2020 William Hague We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.
3 December 2020 Gillian Anderson In my case, I was born to parents who were very young, and I don’t think they were entirely ready to have a child. My dad was going to college and working two or three jobs at the same time, and my mum was working and going to school.
3 December 2020 Ed Miliband And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.
3 December 2020 Meister Eckhart One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.
3 December 2020 Diablo Cody There’s a weird cloud around you when you’re recognizable. It was a brief window for me. I think you have to have a pathological need for attention of any type, negative or positive, to thrive in that kind of situation. And I only want compliments.
3 December 2020 Martin Luther King, Jr. Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
3 December 2020 Kazuo Ishiguro When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.
