"It's even harder to stay at the top in sports than it is to get there."

-- Babe Didrikson Zaharias

#Success Quotes #Sports Quotes #Harder Quotes

“Progressive white teachers seem to say to their black students 'Let me help you find your voice. I promise not to criticize one note as you search for your song'. But the black teachers say 'I've heard your song loud and clear. Now I want to teach you to harmonize with the rest of the world.”

Source : Lisa Delpit (2006). “Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom”, p.18, The New Press
“It is a significant fact that, of all the Christian countries, in those where the church stands highest, and has most power, women rank lowest, and have fewest rights accorded them, whether of personal liberty or proprietary interest.”
“I thought I'd had another few decades before my noise complaint years.”

Source : Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.58, Portobello Books
“Everything we think about regarding sustainability - from energy to agriculture to manufacturing to population - has a water footprint. Almost all of the water on Earth is salt water, and the remaining freshwater supplies are split between agricultural use and human use - as well as maintaining the existing natural environment.”
“Nobody would say, 'I'm voting for this guy because he's got the stronger chin,' but that, in fact, is partly what happens.”
“To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another's happiness as one's own.”
“As a work of art, it reminds me of a long conversation between two drunks”
“There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work.”

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