3 December 2020 Gertrude Stein It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
3 December 2020 Mike Krzyzewski The person who has inspired me my whole life is my Mom, because she taught me commitment. She sacrificed.
3 December 2020 Evan Davis Men don’t know much about women. We do know when they’re happy. We know when they’re crying, and we know when they’re pissed off. We just don’t know in what order these are gonna come at us.
3 December 2020 Michael Phelps My mom put me and my sisters in the water to feel comfortable, to have water safety.
3 December 2020 Paul Tillich The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
3 December 2020 Henry Ford Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
3 December 2020 Anne Lamott I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I’d hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.
3 December 2020 Robert Louis Stevenson Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
3 December 2020 Thomas Friedman It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.
3 December 2020 Tupac Shakur If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys’ home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center.
3 December 2020 Michael Mandelbaum The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional powers that, while not preparing for armed conflict, do not fully trust one another.
3 December 2020 Robert Green Ingersoll When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death – that is heroism.
3 December 2020 Tony Visconti My dad’s sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal – his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.
3 December 2020 Nelson Mandela After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
3 December 2020 Sammy Davis, Jr. Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn’t do soul food.
3 December 2020 June Jordan In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.
3 December 2020 John Cheever Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.
3 December 2020 Delmore Schwartz Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.
3 December 2020 Zoe Saldana I think as an American society, when we’re paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don’t want to see sad things at the movies.
3 December 2020 Amy Grant Come Christmas Eve, we usually go to my mom and dad’s. Everybody brings one gift and then we play that game when we all steal it from each other. Some are really cool, others are useful and some are a bit out there.
3 December 2020 Heinrich Heine Sleep is good, death is better but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.
3 December 2020 Charles Eastman That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since it is his creative and protecting power which alone approaches the solemn function of Deity.
