"People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour."

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Source : "At 100, Still a Teacher, and Quite a Character" by Joseph Berger, www.nytimes.com. May 11, 2011.

Bel Kaufman

#People Quotes #Shells Quotes #Bread Quotes

“They looked at me like I was some kind of threat. [Mick] Jagger really tried to put me down, but there was no way some crude, lippy guy was going to do a number on me. I was always able to squelch him. I found out that, if you stand up to Mick, he crumbles.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I'm moved by us, our quirks and mistakes. I find inspiration in everything from a piece of art to the hem of a dress. I'm one of those people who sees Frank Zappa in a cup of coffee, or elephants wrestling in clouds. But also, conscious creation of all kinds moves me. And a divinely expressed performance in any genre sets me completely on fire.”
“You can't go around the theatres handing out cards saying, 'It isn't my fault'. You go onto the next one.”
“Business happens over years and years. Value is measured in the total upside of a business relationship, not by how much you squeezed out in any one deal.”
“I'm as poor as a church mouse, that's just had an enormous tax bill on the very day his wife ran off with another mouse, taking all the cheese.”
“We have among us a class of mammon worshippers, whose one test of conservatism or radicalism is the attitude one takes with respect to accumulated wealth. Whatever tends to preserve the wealth of the wealthy is called conservatism, and whatever favors anything else, no matter what is called socialism.”

Source : "Socialism: An Examination of Its Nature, Its Strength and Its Weakness, With Suggestions for Social Reform". Book by Richard T. Ely, 1894.
“Sacred spaces can be created in any environment.”
“That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying.”

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