I have a mother that’s very strong and family that surround me and constantly tell me they love me.
WHITNEY HOUSTONYale’s greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into class and convention.
More Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. Quotes
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE -
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD -
Where I wholly love I wholly trust.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT -
I’ve been singing all my life. I’ve always wanted this. I sang in church, in school plays, and my parents gave me vocal lessons. My parents always said this was destined for me.
AALIYAH -
You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
JANIS JOPLIN -
Celebrity, to me, is not a thing to seek.
AIDAN QUINN -
A politician in this country must be the man of a party. I would fain be the man of my whole country.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS -
Regardless of what is being discussed . . . the issue is never more important than the quality of the interaction.
BILL CRAWFORD -
I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.
ADRIENNE RICH -
We all have different perspectives but we tend not to disagree with each other very often in terms of where we want to get or where we want to be. So it’s been amazing working with my brothers.
IVANKA TRUMP -
There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.
RONALD REAGAN -
You’ve got to be twice as good to get half as far.
MICHELLE OBAMA -
Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
None but ourselves can free our minds.
BOB MARLEY -
A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.
FRANTZ FANON