"I brought this case because I am an atheist and this offends me, and I have the right to bring up my daughter without God being imposed into her life by her schoolteachers."

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Source : "Litigant explains why he brought Pledge suit". "Talkback Live" with Arthel Neville, www.cnn.com. June 26, 2002.

Michael Newdow

#Daughter Quotes #Atheist Quotes #My Daughter Quotes

“Our scars are a witness to the world. They are apart of our story. Healed wounds that are symbols that God has restored us.”
“I'm very proud to be British, and my brand is British.”
“I'm always willing to work that little bit harder to achieve what I need to achieve because I feel like it's a blessing for me to be here. I was never supposed to be here. I'm the black council estate kid, single parent, from West London, with friends that are in jail, friends that have committed heinous crimes, friends that are doing nothing. I'm not supposed to be here, therefore I have nothing to lose. I'm always going to work harder than everyone else because if it doesn't work, "So what?".”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“It was very unusual for a boy to play tennis in my country.”
“...and when I lift my head to scream out my fury, a million stars turn black and die. No one can see them, but they are my tears.”

Source : N. K. Jemisin (2010). “The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms”, p.134, Hachette UK
“The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic. It has engaged the industry and wisdom of ancient and modern geometers to such an extent that it would be superfluous to discuss the problem at length... Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.”
“I was always - I was a movie nut. I lived in the movies, really.”
“But the conceit of one's self and the conceit of one's hobby are hardly more prolific of eccentricity than the conceit of one's money. Avarice, the most hateful and wolfish of all the hard, cool, callous dispositions of selfishness, has its own peculiar caprices and crotchets. The ingenuities of its meanness defy all the calculations of reason, and reach the miraculous in subtlety.”

Source : Edwin Percy Whipple (1866). “Character and Characteristic Men”, p.47

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