"What is happening to the daughters of the yam? Seem like they just don't know how to draw up the powers from the deep like before. Not full sunned and sweet anymore."

-- Toni Cade Bambara

#Daughter Quotes #Sweet Quotes #Yams Quotes

“Perhaps you see, therefore, why I think taste must come before nutrition? Our infatuation for the quasi-scientific has left us easy marks for con men and tin fiddle manufacturers.”
“The folly and hubris of the policy makers who heedlessly thrust the nation into an ill-defined and open-ended 'global war on terror' without the foggiest notion of what victory would look like, how it would be won, and what it might cost approached standards hitherto achieved only by slightly mad German warlords.”

Source : Andrew J. Bacevich (2010). “Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War”, p.10, Metropolitan Books
“Even the righteous man is just a sinner living in between sins.”
“I spent my first two years as a professional with Mapei in Italy, on their youth team. We rode in minor races. Doping wasn't an issue. S”
“I have avoided becoming stale by putting a little water on the plate, lying on the plate, and having myself refreshed in a toaster oven for 23 minutes once every month.”
“Daisy had known the novel was silly even as she had read it, but that had not detracted one bit from her enjoyment.”
“Up to our own day American history has been in a large degree the history of the colonization of the Great West. The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward, explain American development.”

Source : "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" (1893) See Bancroft 1; Turner 2
“First, study the present construction. Second, ask for all past experiences ...study and read everything you can on the subject.”

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