"We lived in a real rough place but my mother kept me straight."

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Source : "Mama's whippings meant I didn't wind up like Tyson". Interview With Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2008.

Evander Holyfield

#Mother Quotes #Real Quotes #Rough Quotes

“I think people recognize me if I am going out to dinner or if I am staying in a hotel. They are not quite sure at first because I have grown up a lot.”

Source : "Interview: Emma Bunton". www.askmen.com.
“I never dreamed that my future would be my husband's past. But it's such a huge past in terms of the recorded content.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“You can't go home again”
“I believe in me, in my view of the world. I believe in my responsibility for my own destiny, guilt for my own sins, merit for my own good deeds, determination of my own life. I don't believe in miracles, I believe in hard work.”
“I could not hear what they say about me, my 2 Stanley Cup rings were stuffed in my ears.”
“I'm as healthy as an ox.”
“The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.”
“All of us have a responsibility to work for the day when the mothers of Israelis and Palestinians can see their children grow up without fear; when the Holy Land of the three great faiths is the place of peace that God intended it to be; when Jerusalem is a secure and lasting home for Jews and Christians and Muslims, and a place for all of the children of Abraham to mingle peacefully together as in the story of Isra - (applause) - as in the story of Isra, when Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed, peace be upon them, joined in prayer. (Applause.)”

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