John Shelby Spong Quotes

I am a child of the 21st century.

John Shelby Spong

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• Football is a passion that she holds dear to her heart. She's really going for her dream and there are obstacles in the way, but deep down she knows what she wants, and she pursues that.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • Heart
  • She
  • Dream

• Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Different
  • Country
  • Real

• White Americans today don't know what in the world to do because when they put us behind them, that's where they made their mistake... they put us behind them, and we watched every move they made.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • World
  • Today
  • Mistake

• What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Work
  • Think
  • Better

• I was taught to value hard work. At the end of day, I'm just Olivia.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Work
  • Day
  • Value

• I don't think there are that many awesome roles out there, whether we're talking about movies or TV.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Think
  • Movies
  • Awesome

• Women eat while they are talking; men talk while they are eating.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Men
  • Women
  • Eating

• You have to accept the storms and the rainy days and the things in life that you sometimes don't want to face.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Life
  • Want
  • Face

• When my wife passed, I stopped doing interviews and I stopped doing meet-and-greets, mostly because I sort of became this suicide ambassador. Everybody wanted to tell me their story.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Wife
  • Story
  • Wanted

• I love the studio audience. That's where I feel the most at home. You know right away if you're being funny or not.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Funny
  • Feel
  • Audience

• I love the idea that movies, like 'Fast Times,' can be iconic and change people's lives in little, tiny ways.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • People
  • Like
  • Idea

• The last couple of years have been a write-off, though I'm beginning to feel like a person now. My energy is coming back.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Energy
  • Beginning
  • Couple

• In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Good
  • Long
  • Help

• I was having a bad day, and my friend said, 'Go wash your hair.' I thought it was really silly - but it made me feel so much better. It might be a small thing, but it works. Washing it off and starting over.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Bad
  • Small
  • Day

• I'm a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I'm a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Life
  • Real
  • Girl

• As you can imagine I'm disappointed as anything that I was not selected to be the presidential running mate. And I find it continually appalling that it would be a radical thing to have a woman on the ticket.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Running
  • Woman
  • Find

• I had a great time in high school. I really did. I went to a private Christian high school and I graduated in a class of 67 kids, so it was pretty small, and I knew and loved everybody.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Time
  • Great
  • School

• We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.

  

  Lane Kirkland
  • End
  • Bitter
  • Rather

• Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Experience
  • Wisdom
  • Beginning

• I mean, Chris is, I'm sure, a wonderful guy. But in those days he also very, very late. For all appointments and departures and arrivals and sound checks and anything.

  

  Bill Bruford Yes
  • Guy

• Our atmosphere can't tell the difference between emissions from an Asian factory, the exhaust from a North American SUV, or deforestation in South America or Africa.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • American
  • America
  • Differences

• I was very shy, but when I performed, I felt like I was in my own little world. I became more confident. Dancing taught me discipline and to feel comfortable in my own skin.

  

  Olga Fonda
  • World
  • Discipline
  • Comfortable

• I am a child of the 21st century.

  

  John Shelby Spong