"I was in Independence, Missouri when Johnson signed the Medicare bill, with Truman standing there. Truman had first proposed Medicare, but couldn't get it through."

-- Helen Thomas

#Independence Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Bills Quotes

“It's not a revolution if nobody loses”
“Imagination is the will of things. . . .”
“Whatever you focus on you're going to feel.”
“I hate it when, by page 30, I know what the lead's going to do and then what the bad guy's gonna do. Mostly it's just scripts by the numbers where nothing's surprising, nothing's interesting.”
“When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.”
“With respect to those points, on which the declaration of Scripture is positive and decisive, as, for instance, in asserting the low antiquity of the human race; the evidence of all facts that have yet been established in Geology coincides with the records of Sacred History and Profane Tradition to confirm the conclusion that the existence of mankind can on no account be supposed to have taken its beginning before that time which is assigned to it in the Mosaic writings.”
“Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglasses because we were born this way.”
“You have to always look ahead, always be positive. It's your choice, your destiny. You have to enjoy life.”

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