"I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it."

-- Flannery O'Connor

#Humorous Quotes #Credit Quotes #Tongue Quotes

“Emotional 'literacy' implies an expanded responsibility for schools in helping to socialize children. This daunting task requires two major changes: that teachers go beyond their traditional mission and that people in the community become more involved with schools as both active participants in children's learning and as individual mentors.”
“Thereâ€™s a strange quality in stop-motion photography, like in King Kong, that adds to the fantasy. If you make things too real, sometimes you bring it down to the mundane.”
“There are millions of animal species but, man is the only animal capable of destroying them all.”
“What matters to me is my own estimation, and Im very tough on myself. I need to be proud of what Ive done and I work hard for it. I had a very Christian upbringing... lots of guilt. A good thing, It keeps you sane.”
“I'm finding that people reading the book [ The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star] are saying, "You came from one background, I came from this background - you were a rock star, I was a CEO. I didn't have a heroin/coke problem, but I had a pill problem. But I also fell from grace, didn't know how to get recovery, and I am now in recovery." People tell me that their kids read it and told them they'll never do drugs - "This book really shows me where it goes."”
“The great leading objects of the federal government, in which revenue is concerned, are to maintain domestic peace, and provide for the common defense.”
“An oath is a recognizance to heaven, binding us over in the courts above to plead to the indictment of our crimes.”
“I've had marriage proposals, invitations to military balls and even a few prom offers from 18-year-old boys.”

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