"I have a lot of rage about things that didn't happen to me, tied up with watching an immigrant, working-class father struggle to make his way through the world - and seeing how society was modeled to keep him in his place."

-- Dennis Lehane

#Father Quotes #Struggle Quotes #Class Quotes

“The people who are unprejudiced, but who ... feel it is so hopeless there is no use trying ... probably do just as much damage to the emotional atmosphere in which we are facing the problem as the fanatical Negrophobes.”
“When the guilty verdict was handed down, I walked outside and saw a rainbow encircling the sun. Everyone in Monrovia could see it. It was a hot day, 80 or 90 degrees. I don't remember seeing any raindrops fall. I thought, this is a sign.”
“Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.”
“From time to time, you have seminal personalities who really change the way the world sees itself - people like Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela. Warren Buffett is that kind of person in the business world.”

Source : "Buffett lunch: $650,000 to eat with legendary investor" by Andrew Clark, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2007.
“I'm not a terribly social person, and so I have to really like people to work with them.”
“Every experience permanently alters the way you perceive beauty”
“We are like the herb which flourisheth most when trampled upon”
“I will simply deny you the crown, and..... Live forever!”

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