"Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam."

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Source : Grace Abbott, Judith Sealander (2015). “The Grace Abbott Reader”, p.92, U of Nebraska Press

Grace Abbott

#Home Quotes #Night Quotes #Jam Quotes

“If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it.”
“You believe in God? Believe also in your imagination.”
“Everyone should write a book,Â if only to see how much work goes intoÂ even the slight volume I send you.”
“Under the First Amendment's prohibition of the establishment of religion, the Court has steadily made religion a matter for the private individual by driving it out of the public arena.”
“The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word "free" to a note so high nobody could reach it. That was deliberate.”
“The deciding differentiator in how you drive LOYALTY lies within your greatest asset....your people.”
“I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say; I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life.”
“Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want events of that nature ever to happen again, and I have dedicated an important part of my life to ensuring that and to the reunion of all Chileans.”

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