"I don't know much about my family history except that my father had straight black hair and his ancestors probably came from India."

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Source : "Sir Trevor McDonald". Interview With Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2012.

Trevor McDonald

#Father Quotes #Hair Quotes #Black Quotes

“You don't have the right to be left alone with that abortion decision. The child is present...you are not alone.”
“There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.”
“If I had to give up cheese or chocolate, I'd give up chocolate in a heartbeat.”
“Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics.”
“Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish. Alas, the heart hardens as the blood ceases to run. The cold snow strikes down from the head, and checks the glow of feeling. Who wants to survive into old age after abdicating all his faculties one by one, and be sans teeth, sans eyes, sans memory, sans hope, sans sympathy?”
“I don't really like the autumn. For me it is the beginning of winter and I hate the winter. White, the colour of death.”
“With little knowledge of what it meant to be a Jew, I found myself passionately defending the Jewish people. Now, half a century later, I have to defend my son. Anti-Semitism, I've seen, is like a disease that goes dormant, flaring up with the next political trigger.”

Source : "Michael Douglas Pens Op-Ed on Anti-Semitism: 'We Can Stop the Spread of This Madness" by Lorena O'Neil, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 16, 2015.
“Business is a combination of war and sport.”

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