"Lately I've been going to all these high schools talking to the students, answering their questions, listening to what they have to say. It has been an incredible journey to be around them and try to give them what my mother gave me."

-- Jill Scott

#Mother Quotes #School Quotes #Journey Quotes

“I'm bored to tears by how many clowns have been leaders. That's why it's important to be the best we can be within our own little lives. This divine comic tragedy just keeps getting darker and darker. It's a pattern. What goes up comes down and what comes down goes up. When the wall is finished being built, someday it will get torn down. And then someday it will be built back up again.”
“In times of uncertainty, we tend to move away from deterministic world views. And when we try to find moral footing for our actions, we compare ourselves to the foil of all foils, the Nazi period. It's a quest for moral certainty by saying, "Even if we're not doing great these days, at least we're not the Third Reich." Which can be consoling or alarmist. There's always a present-day agenda behind it.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“We're often told that we live in a globalized world, and we talk about it all the time, but people don't stop to think about what it means.”
“There is a voice inside which speaks and says, "This is the real me!"”
“One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.”
“I like to get far away from myself when I'm acting.”
“Here's a summary for the time or attention challenged: Never surrender freedom for laws that can't affect criminals; they disobey laws for a living.”

Source : "U.S. freedoms not to blame for Mexico's drug war" by Wayne LaPierre, www.cnn.com. March 26, 2009.
“I try not to tune in to politics until it's two or three months before the election. Till then, it's like watching preseason football.”

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