"... if you're poor and ignorant, with a child, you're a slave. Meaning that you're never going to get out of it. These women are in bondage to a kind of slavery that the 13th Amendment just didn't deal with. The old master provided food, clothing and health care to the slaves because he wanted them to get up and go to work in the morning. And so on welfare: you get food, clothing and shelter--you get survival, but you can't really do anything else. You can't control your life."

-- Joycelyn Elders

#Morning Quotes #Children Quotes #Ignorant Quotes

“We did it with passion; we didn't do it like everyone else. Teams nowadays are still trying to duplicate that, but no one has yet. We shuffled down and we did it. We did it in an unique fashion.”
“Are you trying to be as human as you can be?”
“The worse the country, the more tortured it is by water and wind, the more broken and carved, the more it attracts fossil hunters, who depend on the planet to open itself to us. We can only scratch away at what natural forces have brought to the surface.”

Source : Jack Horner, James Gorman (2009). “How to Build a Dinosaur: The New Science of Reverse Evolution”, p.37, Penguin
“And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that? I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.”
“I'm a pitchman, my business comes from the pitch, nothing else.”

Source : Interview with Lloyd Grove, www.entrepreneur.com. October 13, 2008.
“I've played hockey most my life and I've never been badly injured...Three weeks into curling I've got bone chips in both my elbows. I still can't lean on a table. I've even got curling injuries, believe it or not, just from falling on my arse.”
“I like charcoal drawing a lot. I'm not very good, but I always find myself buying canvases and paints whenever I'm on location, because I always have this ambition to fill the hotel room I'm in and turn it into an art studio.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.”

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