"I don't consciously beat the drums for any cause, not even the negro in the United States."

-- Althea Gibson

#United States Quotes #Causes Quotes #Beats Quotes

“I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati's.”
“I'm not going to be happy until every child in every school is physically active.”
“I do not see the E.E.C. [European Economic Community] as a great love affair. It's more like nine middle aged couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope.”
“Relationships are never static. They have to evolve over time as the individuals in them change.”

Source : Sherryl Woods (2017). “A Chesapeake Shores Collection Volume 2: Driftwood Cottage\Moonlight Cove\Beach Lane\An O'Brien Family Christmas”, p.47, MIRA
“Really exotic methods of propulsion . . . will have to be devised to get there. How it will be done, I do not know. Whether it will be done, I am not quite certain. But I would bet it can be done.”
“History doesn't mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.”
“The poet, distracted by politics, asks of poetry that it make itself useful like metal or flour, that it get ready to stain its face with coal dust and fight body to body.”
“I have done literary translation because the University of Arkansas, where I did my MFA, was program of creative writing and translation, and it's a very different experience. You're trying to honor the writer. You shouldn't allow yourself, for example, to encounter a sentence that's three lines long and break it up into four smaller sentences.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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