"I grew up in Harlem. My grandmother was one of the best cooks around, but the first thing she did on Sunday mornings when she started cooking a daylong meal was to take a big block of lard from the back of the refrigerator and throw it into the pan. I know how Hispanics buy their food, and it is not always nutritious."

-- Richard Carmona

#Morning Quotes #Block Quotes #Sunday Quotes

“Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.”
“Music is music you don't have to put a label on it”
“Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world.”
“I wanted to be the best in the world and at 12 years-old I won my first big amateur contest called The Gold Cup Series Contest at Marina Del Ray Skatepark. That's when I really started to believe I could turn pro, though it wasn't until two years later when I was 14 that I actually did with Sims.”
“Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.”
“Faith is always about the Future.”
“If I die, I'm going to die onstage.”
“Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse.”

Source : Leo Durocher, Ed Linn (2009). “Nice Guys Finish Last”, p.22, University of Chicago Press

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