"I didn't have much, but I was always happy to share what I did have. It seemed like every African that came to New York City would show up at my apartment door at dinnertime, and I couldn't turn them away. I wasn't much older than any of them, but they started calling me 'Mama Africa' and the name stuck."

-- Miriam Makeba

#New York Quotes #Cities Quotes #Names Quotes

“hope your birthday is hot hot hot”
“How can people say they don't eat eggplant when God loves the color and the French love the name? I don't under'stand.”
“Nothing is so beautiful as spring- When weeds in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;...”

Source : Gerard Manley Hopkins (2009). “Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins”, p.29, ReadHowYouWant.com
“An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle; its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball.”
“There is really nothing that can be done except by an individual. Only individuals can learn. Only individuals can think creatively. Only individuals can cooperate. Only individuals can combat statism.”

Source : "Essays on Liberty". Book by Leonard Read, 1954.
“Be careful in the company of monsters that you don't become one.”

Source : Cindy Gerard (2008). “Take No Prisoners”, p.320, Simon and Schuster
“Even the best-natured people, if uninstructed, are always blind and uncertain. We must take pains to instruct ourselves so that ignorance makes us neither too timid nor too bold.”
“The collapse of Enron was devastating to tens of thousands of people and shook the public's confidence in corporate America.”

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