"The poem, the song, the picture, is only water drawn from the well of the people, and it should be given back to them in a cup of beauty so that they may drink - and in drinking understand themselves."

-- Federico Garcia Lorca

#Song Quotes #Drinking Quotes #People Quotes

“Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.”
“Sometimes a word is found so right it trembles at the slightest explanation.”

Source : Rita Dove (1989). “The Yellow House on the Corner: Poems”, Carnegie-Mellon University Press
“Profit by your own mistakes and profit by the mistakes of others. The referees were calling ball handling violations like they were getting commissions.”
“No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won't let him.”
“The provision of health care facilities must be accepted as a social responsibility. It is not that an individual who has the misfortune to be inflicted with some particular disease is solely responsible for searching the facilities to cure his illness. This is a social responsibility which is accepted by governments all over the world. This is part and parcel of the organization of individuals into societies. It is a measure of the degree of civilization.”
“The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world--Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon--there are more Muhammads than anything else.”
“The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!”
“Hollywood infected my brain and I really valued the wrong things in life, but I changed dramatically.”

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