Paul Houston famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.
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Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could it not make you cleverer? The only people who ever thought television rotted the brain and made kids dumb were those with a vested interest in other ways of learning, or those who were intellectually insecure, usually about books.
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If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing.
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In this state, dig it, you get twenty years for sale of dope to a minor. You only get five to ten for manslaughter. So like, the thing is, if you're selling to a kid and cops come, shoot the kid real quick!
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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within. Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.
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Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.
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Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
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What we need now for quickening is not so much money and wisdom as the spirit of supplication. Pray for yourself until the new life is infused. When that new life comes, it will lead you to pray for others.
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Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.
