"My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first blacks in my town to own land. But, I was worried about my history being caked with that southern clay, and I subscribed to a different kind of teaching and learning in my bones and in my spirit."

-- John Henrik Clarke

#Teaching Quotes #Land Quotes #Daddy Quotes

“Well you know I'm very supportive of what the Tea Party is trying to do. They're very concerned with spending, the deficit, the bailouts, you know all of those kinds of things. But I really think that the strength of the Tea Party is being a grassroots movement.”

Source : "Conservative Senator John Boozman Says No Thanks to Tea Party Caucus" by Jonathan Karl, abcnews.go.com. February 11, 2011.
“As a kid in British Columbia, going back a long way, I learned to skate.”

Source : The IGN Interview, ca.ign.com. December 1, 2003.
“Every young man should aim at independence and should prepare himself for a vocation; above all, he should so manage his life that the steps of his progress are taken without improper aids; that he calls no one master, that he does not win or deserve the reputation of being a tool of others, and that if called to public service he may assume its duties with the satisfaction of knowing that he is free to rise to the height of his opportunity.”

Source : Charles Evans Hughes (1910). “Conditions of Progress in Democratic Government”
“We have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history we had.”
“You can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right; but spelling isn't everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count.”
“I'd like to do a show that's not a sitcom.”

Source : Interview with David Wolinsky, www.avclub.com. January 2, 2008.
“Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old,”

Source : Song: School Days
“I have a feeling that once you live through something like this, you become a little bit invincible.”

Source : FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from May 04, 2014

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