"Grateful to Almighty God for the blessings which, through Jesus Christ Our Lord, He had conferred on my beloved country in her emancipation and on myself in permitting me, under circumstances of mercy, to live to the age of 89 years, and to survive the fiftieth year of independence, adopted by Congress on the 4th of July 1776."

-- Charles Carroll of Carrollton

#Country Quotes #Jesus Quotes #4th Of July Quotes

“The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval.”

Source : Thomas Harris (1999). “Hannibal”
“It would have been funny if I had been an observer and not a participant, an idea that gave me a disconcerting insight into gossip. As I walked beside the silent Tamara, I realized that despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.”

Source : "Crown Duel". Book by Sherwood Smith, 1997.
“A lot of times people hide their quirks when they're first getting to know a person.”
“When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.”
“Unchecked pride evolves into swagger, a hypnotizing mask of insecurity that can and does compromise our ability to make progress and attain power. Pride stands in the way of forgiveness and a strategic approach to navigating a chessboard rigged to prevent pawns from becoming kings and queens.”

Source : "LeBron's pride simply not important". abcnews.go.com. July 11, 2014.
“I work hard to show my mother that her child has a purpose.”

Source : Source: www.cnn.com
“Professionalism in tennis ... only resulted in making billionaires out of rude children, producing an onslaught of moody defectors, and a lot of guys with hair that looks as if bats slept in it... Meanwhile, my head swims with the thought that I have watched tennis progress from Don Budge and Alice Marble to Farrah Fawcett becoming John McEnroe's mother-in-law.”
“We are rough men and used to rough ways.”

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