"I was a wild kid. I was left to climb trees. And you know those railways logs, they piled them up, six feet apart, and I'd jump from one to the other. Without a safety net! I was an incredible tomboy."

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Source : "Bassey is back". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2009.

Shirley Bassey

#Kids Quotes #Feet Quotes #Safety Quotes

“I need a spiritual connection - I can make changes, but I can't make miracles - and I need people around me who'll support me and believe in me and tell me the truth and not let me deceive myself into avoiding the what's scary and hard and necessary.”

Source : "The Wonders of ‘Prep Week’" by Victoria Moran, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 28, 2011.
“The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.”
“The tribal attitude said, and continues to say, that Gay people are especially empowered because we are able to identify with both sexes and can see into more than one world at once, having the capacity to see from more than one point of view at a time. And that is also an Indian way of seeing.”

Source : Judy Grahn (1990). “Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds”
“I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have set off the fire alarm and have nothing to do but to wait. I do not think we will have to wait for long.”
“Cities, in many ways, are the best repositories for a love affair. You are in a forest or a cornfield, you are walking by the seashore, footprint after footprint of trodden sand, and somehow the kiss or the spoken covenant gets lost in the vastness and indifference of nature. In a city there are places to remind us of what has been.”
“the Republicans are all about suppressing votes.”
“Racist people are few, in the minority. But you can do nothing to change them. You can talk, you can do what you want, but you can't do anything because they are just stupid people.”
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

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