"And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery and when I cried out with my mother's grief none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?"

-- Sojourner Truth

#Mother Quotes #Jesus Quotes #Children Quotes

“Our parents had to drive us to the gig, or even go in with us because of the liquor laws. The owners were really scared to death that we'd drink. We usually just went out somewhere and smoked weed. I don't smoke anymore, but back then we used to smoke quite a lot.”
“Today's family is built like a pyramid; with all the intrafamilial rivalries, tensions, jealousies, angers, hatreds, loves and needs focused on the untrained, vulnerable, insecure, young, inexperienced and incompetent parental apex ... about whose incompetence our vaunted educational system does nothing.”
“When I see people on the street, I look at how they walk. It's like a signature, a fingerprint.”
“Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your only man. Notwithstanding this eulogy, I soon found that the mass of plain porter bears an unsatisfactory relation to its toxic content and I subsequently became addicted to brown stout in bottle, a drink which still remains the one that I prefer the most despite the painful and blinding fits of vomiting which a plurality of bottles has often induced in me.”
“Show me someone content with mediocrity and I'll show you someone destined for failure.”
“I remember riding my bike down the boardwalk with nowhere to go and looking at the girls. It was really innocent.”
“One of the great things about the X Games and the Olympics is being on the international stage. It gives you a cool opportunity to express, not only your personal style, but also your faith and what you believe in and your values.”
“This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.”

Source : George F. Will (1999). “The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric”, p.312, Simon and Schuster

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