"The troblemakers in Hungary are the Jews... they demoralize our country and they are the leaders of the revolutionary gang that is torturing Hungary."

“I try to create homes, not houses.”

“You need more than an idea to run a business”

“Everywhere you look, there is a charity or a project in school to get involved in. In eighth grade, there was this program called CJSF, California Junior Scholarship Foundation. We were involved in soup kitchens and toy drives, and your school can set up something like that. If your school doesn't have a program like that, set one up.”

“Women never have young minds. They are born three thousand years old.”

Source : 'A Taste of Honey' (1959) act 1, sc. 2

“You want him to walk?" Caleb demands. "Are you insane?" "Did I shoot him in the leg?" I say. "No. He walks. Where do we go, Peter?”

“We will pray that God take the lives of these Hitler-like men from the face of the earth.”

“Talking to God should be part of every aspect of life, in times of peace as well as in every battle.”

“I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.”

Source : "U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey Talks About Her New Job and Fourth Book". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. September 21, 2012.