"At a Texas college, a football field that was turned into a farm. The Tigers of Paul Quinn College lost more football games than they won on this field. So, years ago, when the historically black college on the South Side of Dallas was in financial crisis and had a 1 percent graduation rate, a new president turned everything over, including the football field."

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Source : Source: www.pbs.org

Hari Sreenivasan

#Football Quotes #College Quotes #Black Quotes

“On the seventh day God rested. His grandchildren must have been out of town.”
“No woman is required to build the world by destroying herself.”
“I tell people this: It's hard to write about walking in the park, but it's easy to write about a breakup.”

Source : "Five Questions with Kris Allen". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. November 23, 2009.
“After all, in supporting phenomenal concepts I am in a sense siding with introspection against the more behaviourist Wittgensteinians. But even so I don't think that introspection is powerful enough to resolve the specific issue about how many colours you can see.”

Source : "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com.
“People grew lazy. They knew too many blessings, and so lost the ability to appreciate what they had”
“We breathe the light, we breathe the music, we breathe the moment as it passes through us.”

Source : Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.1108, Ballantine Books
“You've got to follow your passion. You've got to figure out what it is you love--who you really are. And have the courage to do that. I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.”
“If you are working with people with whom you do NOT do your best work, you are out of integrity.”

Source : Michael Port, Jocelyn Wallace (2013). “Book Yourself Solid Illustrated: The Fastest, Easiest, and Most Reliable System for Getting More Clients Than You Can Handle Even If You Hate Marketing and Selling”, p.24, John Wiley & Sons

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