"Where you find obesity, you'll find poverty. It's a reflection of the South's struggle to raise its standard of living."

-- William R. Ferris

#Struggle Quotes #Reflection Quotes #Poverty Quotes

“Prayer is powerful! It fills the earth with mercy, it makes the Divine clemency pass from generation to generation; right along the course of the centuries wonderful works have been achieved through prayer.”
“Down to my last dime and coming apart at the seams. I'm messed up in Mexico, living on refried dreams.”
“For example I don't work with William Hurt the same way that I will work with Viggo. They're different guys and they work in different ways. So a good sensitive director has his general style and technique and personality that he uses but you don't impose that on the actors.”
“Quotations have always been supremely effective rhetorical devices, instruments of one-upmanship, ways of supporting any position under the sun with borrowed or stolen authority.”
“My friend asked me if I wanted a frozen banana. I said 'No, but I want a regular banana later, so... yeah.'”

Source : "Mitch All Together". Live album by Mitch Hedberg, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2003.
“It's difficult for me to describe my own music; every song is an experience that I set to music. There's no lyrics, no singer, just instruments, but I'm sure you can feel what the song is talking about just by listen to it. I can't describe a feeling, my songs are feelings.”
“Once you become an owner of a team, you get so much more into the sport and you can't help it. So I really love NFL football now to the degree of following it much more than I did previously.”
“Only with winter-patience can we bring the deep-desired, long-awaited Spring.”

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