"I want to be remembered as a great actor - and a shining example of humanity."

-- Jesse L. Martin

#Shining Quotes #Humanity Quotes #Example Quotes

“But the other audience, I think, is people in Central America because since last summer, they've been running ads down there - the United States government has - don't come, it's dangerous. You will be immediately deported. That's literally what it says in Spanish.”

Source : "A Closer Look At Obama Administration's Controversial Deportation Plans". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. December 26, 2015.
“Some boys take a beautiful girl and hide her away from the rest of the world, I want to be the one to walk in the sun.”

Source : Song: Girls Just Want To Have Fun, Album: She's So Unusual
“I believe in the Bible. I believe that all good things come from God. I don't believe I'd sing the way I do if God hadn't wanted me to.'”
“It was Julie Burchill who decreed that, beyond a certain age, a man should not be seen in a leather jacket.”
“I just love Cape Breton fiddling! I think it's very close. They derive their music from Scottish music. Well, in Donegal we're very influenced by Scottish music as well. Independently the two areas became very alike, because they kind of changed the music a bit from Scotland and we did the same.”
“When the father is going on in his journey, if the child will not goe on, but stands gaping upon vanity, and when the father calls, he comes not, the onely way is this: the father steps aside behind a bush, and then the child runs and cries, and if he gets his father againe, he forsakes all his trifles, and walkes on more faster and more cheerefully with his father than ever.”
“We cannot embrace His cross, and yet refuse our own. We cannot raise the cup of His remembrance to our lips, without a secret pledge to Him, to one another, to the great company of the faithful in every age that we, too, hold ourselves at God's disposal, that we will ask nothing on our own account, that we will pass simply into the Divine hand to take us whither it will.”

Source : James Martineau (1879). “Hours of thought on sacred things, sermons”
“Seeking the ideal has a long history, it produces many saints but few paradigm changes.”

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