"I'm first generation American, and my parents were both from Nigeria. And so I always say that I'm literally an African American. So my last name is Famuyiwa, it's different. And so that was a part of my experience from people not being able to pronounce it to not sort of having sort of a shared, common history with a lot of the kids that I was growing up with because my parents were from Africa."

-- Terry Gross

#Growing Up Quotes #Kids Quotes #Names Quotes

“It's a fact that kids watch TV. But if you think back, when you watched cowboy movies, you would go out and play cowboys. TV and movies motivate people.”
“A recent government publication on the marketing of cabbage contains, according to one report, 26,941 words. It is noteworthy in this regard that the Gettysburg Address contains a mere 279 words while the Lord's Prayer comprises but 67.”
“No cigar-smoker ever committed suicide.”

Source : William Maginn (1855). “The Odoherty papers”, p.137
“If rulers learn to undervalue the lives of their own subjects by the custom of war, how much more do they undervalue the lives of their enemies! As they learn to hear of the loss of five hundred or a thousand of their own men, with perhaps less feeling than they would hear of the death of a favorite horse or dog, so they learn to hear of the death of thousands after thousands on the side of the enemy with joy and exultation.”

Source : Noah Worcester, Massachusetts Peace Society (Founded 1815) (1816). “The friend of peace”, p.24
“I'd spare your tears for the rest of your life if I could.”
“I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth.”
“Conceal thy domestic ills.”
“With each step my heart broke for the person I would never find, the person who'd love me.”

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