"It's our responsibility to pass on what we inherited, not to squander it, but to build on it."

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Source : Christine Gregoire's Inaugural Speech in Olympia, Washington, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. January 12, 2005.

Christine Gregoire

#Responsibility Quotes #Feminist Quotes

“I was very skinny, braces; so I never thought I would be a model.”
“Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.”
“Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name!”
“Yes, it benefits the planet, but I don't lead with the green message anymore because I think there's a more evergreen way to look at it, which is efficiency.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“I consider myself a human being, a Christian, a father, a husband, so many things, before being a black person.”
“People were actually approaching me on the street and thinking that I was an athlete. They couldn't quite place it, but a runner, or swimmer or something.”
“After a person dies, his biographers feel free to give him a glittering list of intimate friends. Anecdotes are so much tastier spiced with expensive names.”
“That which you bestow freely and willingly will bring you all the happy luck that a grateful universe knows how to return.”

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