"Thereâ€™s no use saying anything in the schoolyard because thereâ€™s always someone with an answer and thereâ€™s nothing you can do but punch them in the nose and if you were to punch everyone who has an answer youâ€™d be punching morning noon and night."

-- Frank McCourt

#Morning Quotes #Night Quotes #Punching Quotes

“The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.”
“The guys that are out there now likeÂ Calvin JohnsonÂ andÂ Larry FitzgeraldÂ they're making $16 million, $15 million a year, and I'm not looking for anything like that. A lot of that money goes to the quarterback position and rightfully so.”
“When I was 6 I became the poster child for my hospital and would go to banquets and make speeches. I did not get stage fright and I actually enjoyed talking to people of all ages.”

Source : Source: www.nerdprobs.com
“Here was the freedom I desired, long sought-for, not yet known Freedom to write, to walk, to wander, freedom to climb hills, to pull a boat, to be alone.”
“Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Whenever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.”

Source : Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.170, Schocken
“One day, when I was doing well in class and had finished my lessons, I was sitting there trying to analyze the game of tic-tac-toe... The teacher came along and snatched my papers on which I had been doodling... She did not realize that analyzing tic-tac-toe can lead into dozens of non-trivial mathematical questions.”
“The highest pay cheque my mother ever received funded the building of a nursery school in Shepherd's Bush - the school cost well over three times the money she donated to the making of the film 'The Palestinian.' Unsurprisingly this always goes unmentioned in the press.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“As my own boss, I have the opportunity to get to work with great brands, like Old Navy, and I get to style some looks together that people can actually buy and afford.”

Source : "Brad Goreski Is Taking Care of Business". Interview with Kelsey Garcia, www.elle.com. March 13, 2013.

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