"The first gay person I ever met was surely not the first gay person I ever met."

-- Mary Schmich

#Gay Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Mets Quotes

“With the song 'This Christmas' I wanted to do something that was kind of different. I mean, Donny Hathaway is an amazing artist. So I wanted to bring my flavor to the song so when people over the age of 45 or 50 hear it they'll be like 'OK, he did his thing with that record.' It's like I can appeal to everybody and not just a younger demographic.”
“The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.”
“The Zionist regime is an injustice and by its very nature a permanent threat. Whether you like it or not, the Zionist regime is heading toward annihilation. The Zionist regime is a rotten, dried tree that will be eliminated by one storm.”
“Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.”

Source : Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose”, p.748, NYU Press
“Housework hassles go on, are never resolved, and will probably extend into the afterlife ('Why am I the one who takes the clouds to the dry cleaners?').”
“I would like to believe that it is, and will continue to be, human compassion for other beings that will result in our giving them the protection they deserve, because of who they are, not because of what they can do for us or because some law tells us what we have to do.”

Source : "Who Lives and Who Dies: We All Care About Animals, Right?" by Marc Bekoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 21, 2010.
“When you make mistakes during routines, it's not easy getting through them.”
“My parents subscribed to both Time and Newsweek and in 1978, I remember the covers of both that December were of the bodies in the jungle. The fact that many of the people who drank the cyanide - as well as Jim Jones himself - were originally from Indiana, that stayed with me. I wanted to know why they did such a baffling, horrendous thing, why they would kill their children.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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