"We've got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't matter with me now. Because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go up to the mountaintop. And I've looked over. And I've seen the promised land."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

#Land Quotes #Justice Quotes #Long Quotes

“I see my life in terms of music.”
“When I get really hammered I take my clothes off. That's a sure sign. It's been a long time since the last time I did that. Probably a year.”
“...I realized how naive I was. My aunt Tina was right: this stuff does exist, and it does hurt people, and although there are lots of people at Liberty who condemn violence against gays-including Dr. Falwell himself-the number of students who want to give them the Goliath treatment isn't zero. In fact, the number who live in my room isn't zero.”
“Together, we could open up government and invite citizens in, while connecting all of America to 21st century broadband. We could use technology to help achieve universal health care, to reach for a clean energy future, and to ensure that young Americans can compete - and win - in the global economy...”
“We're all just in our bodies for a moment in our life. Such a brave and lovely act it is to let the body celebrate.”

Source : Tom Spanbauer (2007). “In the City of Shy Hunters”, p.500, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“As with cows, mares, female camels, slave girls, buffalo cows, she goats, and ewes, it is not the begetter ,or his owner who obtains the offspring, even thus ,it is with the wives of others.”
“You know what else that settles then tonight. This hue and cry and controversy that has been spawned by the devil to try and bring dissention within the body of Christ that we are gods. I am a little god.”
“After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron.”

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