"To ward off alienation and gloom, it is only necessary to remember the unremembered heroes of the past, and to look around us for the unnoticed heroes of the present."

-- Howard Zinn

#Hero Quotes #Past Quotes #Looks Quotes

“I've been on the floor and I've been heartbroken. I didn't know how I was going to stand up. But I just gave it time.”
“You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os.”
“It's frightening to think that you might not know something, but more frightening to think that, by and large, the world is run by people who have faith that they know exactly what is going on.”
“Love is not a feeling to be felt, it's an action to be learned.”
“About half of the loyalists who left the United States ended up going north to Canada, settling in the province of Nova Scotia and also becoming pioneering settlers in the province of New Brunswick.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“Now, most dentist's chairs go up and down, don't they? The one I was in went back and forwards. I thought 'This is unusual'. And the dentist said to me 'Mr Vine, get out of the filing cabinet.”
“In solitude the mind gains strength, and learns to lean upon herself; in the world it seeks or accepts of a few treacherous supports--the feigned compassion of one, the flattery of a second, the civilities of a third, the friendship of a fourth--they all deceive, and bring the mind back to retirement, reflection, and books.”
“I was approached to do something for seven years, and it was a quality project. I did seriously think about it, but I didn't want to be away for six months of the year. I've never done the L.A. thing where you go and have loads of meetings; I can't say to my wife, 'I'm going to wait by a pool for six months.'”

You may also like:

Amy Goodman
Journalist
Edward Said
Professor
Emma Goldman
Writer
Eqbal Ahmad
Writer
Jared Diamond
Scientist
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Professor
Michael Parenti
Political scientist
Naomi Klein
Author
Noam Chomsky
Linguist