"To be fired for my faith would be a greater honor than to be fired because we didn't win enough games."

-- Ron Brown

#Winning Quotes #Games Quotes #Honor Quotes

“And who will join this standing up and the ones who stood without sweet company will sing and sing back into the mountains and if necessary even under the sea: we are the ones we have been waiting for.”

Source : June Jordan (1998). “Affirmative Acts: Political Essays”, Anchor
“Hell is just resistance to life.”
“That isn't how I've always felt. As a congressman, and more recently as a senator, I opposed marriage for same-sex couples. Then something happened that led me to think through my position in a much deeper way.”

Source : "Gay Marriage Wins Another Convert" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. March 15, 2013.
“If the traditional Rs (reading, writing, and arithmetic) are the basics that we want our children to master academically, then reverence, respect, and responsibility are the three Rs that our children need to master for the sake of their souls and the health of the world.”

Source : Zoe Weil (2003). “Above All, Be Kind: Raising a Humane Child in Challenging Times”, p.41, New Society Publishers
“It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.”
“The night destroys the sun”
“African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Obama's left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin was too historic an opportunity to miss.”
“I have never had any hero in my life or in photography. I just travel, I look and everything influences me. Everything influences me. I am quite different now than I was 40 years ago. For 40 years I have been traveling. I never stay in one country more than three months. Why? Because I was interested in seeing, and if I stay longer I become blind.”

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