"With the mega-fame came the mega-downfall - you know, with the press and everything - and at a young age, it was very stressful to me."

-- Vanilla Ice

#Age Quotes #Fame Quotes #Stressful Quotes

“Touch was important. The evening of the Third of July we would go around the neighborhood and look at the fireworks others had bought, taking them out of the brown paper sack and handling them cautiously as if they were precious stones. There was envy when we saw sacks with more in them than we had.”
“My administration will not authorize the indefinite military detention without trial of American citizens. Indeed, I believe that doing so would break with our most important traditions and values as a nation.”
“Every country in the world now needs to have its veterinary services on high alert for H5N1 to be sure they are not caught unawares.”

Source : "The Situation Room", www.cnn.com. March 9, 2006.
“I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.”

Source : Charley Pride, Jim Henderson (1994). “Pride: the Charley Pride story”, William Morrow & Co
“If I wasn't a writer, I don't know what I'd be. Probably a marine biologist or something.”
“Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses”

Source : "A Treasury of Jewish Quotations". Book by Joseph L. Baron, 1985.
“Did you know children are dying because of AIDS. Missing the medicines that prevent transmission from mother to child. Missing the protection from parents teachers and role models that can teach them about the danger, and keep them safe from sexual exploitation. Children are missing your support. Unite for children. Unite against AIDS.”
“I will be satisfied if my epitaph shall be written thus: 'Here lies one who never rose to any eminence, who only courted the low ambition to have it said that he striven to ameliorate the condition of the poor, the lowly, the downtrodden of every race and language and color.'”

Source : Thaddeus Stevens (1997). “The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens, Volume 1: April 1865-August 1868”, p.524, University of Pittsburgh Pre

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