"In my teens, I worked as an aide in my community supervising and mentoring youth in various programs and delivering lunches to needy students."

-- Hilda Solis

#Lunch Quotes #Community Quotes #Mentor Quotes

“[Barack Obama] and Michelle, in my heart, this is my personal feeling, epitomize what my mother and my father were. They are community organizers on a global level.”
“Disease is the misery of our belief, happiness is the health of our wisdom, so that man's happiness or misery depends on himself. Now, as our misery comes from our belief, and not from the thing believed, it is necessary to be on the watch, so as not to be deceived by false guides. Sensation contains no intelligence or belief, but is a mere disturbance of the matter, called agitation, which produces mind, and is ready to receive the seed of error. Ever since man was created, there has been an element called error which has been busy inventing answers for every sensation.”
“What's getting all the attention is we have South Dakota putting out this direct frontal attack. I'm actually just as concerned about what they're doing every day on the ground. If you restrict access to the point there is no one who can or will do it for you, you've taken the right away. And that's becoming the reality for women in many states in this country.”
“Every great company, brand, career has been built in exactly the same way: bit by bit, step by step, little by little.”
“The sea! The sea! The open sea!, The blue, the fresh, the ever free!”

Source : Bryan Waller Procter, “The Sea”
“Whichever country you are, if you lose games you are criticised. It's only when it's England it's like a new world war.”
“You can only accomplish the amount you dream.”
“It's just a crazy damned life, that's all ...”

Source : Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.151, Hachette UK

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