"The man was the finest preacher. He could make a frog stand up straight and get happy with Jesus."

-- James McBride

#Jesus Quotes #Men Quotes #Frogs Quotes

“In order to inspire people, that's going to have to come from somewhere deep inside of you.”
“I think I'm better wired for television. I love variety as far as a project. I'm easily bored and the schedule of a television show, it just keeps you going.”

Source : "Brad Garrett Gives Us the Goods on 'Til Death". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. April 16, 2008.
“But most critically, sweet, never try to change the narrative structure of someone else's story, though you will certainly be tempted to, as you watch those poor souls in school, in life, heading unwittingly down dangerous tangents, fatal digressions from which they will unlikely be able to emerge. Resist the temptation. Spend your energies on your story. Reworking it. Making it better.”

Source : Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.83, Penguin
“Earth is only a pale version of heaven, not the other way around.”
“Your heroes will help you find good in yourself.”

Source : Song: Heroes And Friends, 1990
“How beautiful is forgetting! What relief it would be for the world to lose some of its contents.”
“At the heart of the celebration, there are the poor. If [they] are excluded, it is not longer a celebration. [...] A celebration must always be a festival of the poor.”
“A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.”

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