"To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship."

-- Wendell Phillips

#Fathers Day Quotes #Father Quotes #Imitation Quotes

“Get the advice of everybody whose advice is worth having - they are very few - and then do what you think best yourself.”
“I don't know what it's like for a book writer or a doctor or a teacher as they work to get established in their jobs, but for a singer, you've got to continue to grow or else you're just like last night's cornbread...stale and dry.”
“Big cities like New York are thriving, economically, culturally, in terms of real estate values, and by a slew of other measures. Yet, at the same time, much of the country has been utterly hollowed out. In California, where I live, affluent coastal cities such as San Francisco and the Silicon Valley hubs have lower than national average unemployment, higher wages, higher tax bases. Meanwhile, there are inland counties in California where there's still nearly 20 percent unemployment.”
“This is a landmark opportunity for all that live and work in the Yukon. The Territory is now one step closer to realizing the potential that geothermal heat and power has for the economy, the environment, First Peoples, tax-payers and businesses.”
“Design acknowledges change. Its meaning encompasses change in our times. To design is to 'create order and to function according to a plan.' The notion of change and design move along the same path.”
“It's very important to surround yourself with people you can learn from.”
“Getting a woman's body and getting her heart are two different things. And gaining her trust is another problem entirely.”

Source : Lora Leigh (2016). “Wicked Pleasure:”, p.136, St. Martin's Griffin
“Think of the beginning of the story of the beginning of everything: Adam (without Eve and without divine guidance) names the animals. Continuing his work, we call stupid people bird-brained, cowardly people chickens, fools turkeys. Are these the best names we have to offer? If we can revise the notion of women coming from a rib, canâ€™t we revise our categorizations of the animals that, draped with barbecue sauce, end up as the ribs on our dinner plates â€” or for that matter, the KFC in our hands?”

You may also like:

Charles Sumner
Former United States Senator
David Walker
Pamphleteer
Frederick Douglass
Orator
Henry David Thoreau
Author
Lucretia Mott
Activist
Lydia M. Child
Activist
Theodore Dwight Weld
Writer
Theodore Parker
William Lloyd Garrison
Journalist