"You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up."

-- Patrick Swayze

#Growing Up Quotes #Kids Quotes #Redneck Quotes

“Did they know - the young and fearless - what a miraculous thing it was to have all of anyone?”
“We should figure out how to do this so that some parents don't feel disenfranchised, angry and upset. It says a lot about the state of where we are in the city, the role of parents and the reality of small school and combining schools.”
“Ender nodded. It was a lie, of course, that it wouldnâ€™t hurt a bit. But since adults always said it when it was going to hurt, he could count on that statement as an accurate prediction of the future. Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.”
“Ayman Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's deputy, as well as Abu Musab Zarqawi, have made it quite clear in their internal propaganda that they cannot win unless they can drive the Americans out. And they know that they can't do that there, so they've brought the battlefield to the halls of Congress.”

Source : "House Republicans Respond to Murtha". Geoff Davis' remarks during news conference by House Republicans at the United States Capitol in Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., www.nytimes.com. November 17, 2005.
“He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is what he will know.”
“That the apostolic office is temporary, is a plain historical fact.”
“The materials of true poetry are always humble, absolutely idiosyncratic, the autobiographical tatters that, in gifted hands, are made into the memoir that fits us all.”
“It's better not to work than to work in something you don't want to be working in.”

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