"I remember the day tDr. King died. I wasn't angry at the beginning. It was like something very personal in my life had been touched and finished."

-- Lena Horne

#Kings Quotes #Remember Quotes #Angry Quotes

“Nationalism ... is like cheap alcohol. First it makes you drunk, then it makes you blind, then it kills you.”
“Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.”
“It's like we're a catastrophe waiting to happen.”
“If a man keeps his trap shut, the world will beat a path to his door.”

Source : Franklin P. Adams (1944). “Nods and Becks”
“Happiness isn't at the end of the rainbow. Happiness is at the beginning of the rainbow. Following the rainbow is happiness, not getting to the end of it.”
“...Her parents were going to a conference for the weekend. The conference was called "Lawyers are Lovely, Great and Superb: so Why Does Everyone Think that They are Liars, Greedy and Scum?" and Mr Thomson was doing a speech called "Ten Tips to Make Lawyers as Popular as Doctors.”

Source : Jaclyn Moriarty (2010). “The Year of Secret Assignments”, p.217, Scholastic Inc.
“When in doubt, err on the side of generosity.”
“The scent organ was playing a delightfully refreshing Herbal Capriccio - rippling arpeggios of thyme and lavender, of rosemary, basil, myrtle, tarragon; a series of daring modulations through the spice keys into ambergris; and a slow return through sandalwood, camphor, cedar and newmown hay (with occasional subtle touches of discord - a whiff of kidney pudding, the faintest suspicion of pig's dung) back to the simple aromatics with which the piece began. The final blast of thyme died away; there was a round of applause; the lights went up.”

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