"I still can't go over a subway grating without looking down to see if there is some money there."

-- Eartha Kitt

#Poverty Quotes #Subway Quotes #Stills Quotes

“In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office.”
“How blessed to know that when the world hates us, God loves us!”
“The language of labels is like paper money, issued irresponsibly, with nothing of intrinsic value behind it, that is, with no effort of the intelligence to see, to really apprehend.”

Source : Paula Fox (2011). “News from the World: Stories and Essays”, p.150, W. W. Norton & Company
“It's a strange phenomenon how this piece of wood, wheels and a turning system has made so many people so happy”
“Above my cradle loomed the bookcase where/ Latin ashes and the dust of Greece/ mingled with novels, history, and verse/ in one dark Babel. I was folio-high/ when I first heard the voices.”
“I don't know, but I think kids just want to be listened to, so I want to make sure I do that.”
“Each time we act to improve the life of another person, we send forth a ripple of hope in what appears to be a hopeless society.”
“I don't have that kind of voice, the big baritone or rousing tenor sound. My wheelhouse was in the frothier pieces. So my appreciation for those older musicals and revivals grew.”

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