Quotes
Authors
Linda Ellerbee

"We plant a tree that won't be big enough to climb until we're too old to climb trees, we write constitutions to protect the rights of people who won't be born for another hundred years and may not be worth the trouble anyway, and we try to take care of our sick, though we all suffer from a disease for which there is no cure and no hope for one. We will not last and we know we will not - and still we write, carve, build, paint and plant to last. We are, it seems to me, very, very brave."

-- Linda Ellerbee

#Writing Quotes #Rights Quotes #Years Quotes

“When we started out we got a lot of positive press around the single 'Step Into My World', and a lot of Radio play. The single did really well, so we were in the spotlight straight away. I obviously had my history with Ride, but I didn't want to talk about that, so all the interviews centred around how I'd had these auditions and found the band members that way. I think people felt like that was not 'for real' enough or something.”
“Culture has always been more important than politics. Sometimes culture is a mirror that reflects what is; sometimes it's a search-light pointing the way to what will be.”
“I keep active because I have not announced my retirement, because that is something that takes time and you have to plan it. Plus, it is something that the Dominican people expected.”

Source : "Pedro Martinez says he’s on way to retirement". www.washingtontimes.com. May 1, 2011.
“It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned.”
“A man has always wanted to lay me down but he never wanted to pick me up.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“California Marijuana farmers are worried that radiation from Japan could affect their crops. Or maybe for some strange reason they're just being paranoid.”
“Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.”
“I realized now that militancy in the best sense of the word was the only answer where the black man was concerned, that any black man who wasn't a militant in 1970 was either blind or a coward.”

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