Julia Bacha Quotes

If we don’t lift up women who play critical roles in movements, we fail to offer role models to future generations.

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• To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Growing
  • Football
  • Games

• People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.

  

  Kate Morton
  • People
  • Writing
  • Business

• While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • Money
  • Experience
  • Happy

• A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Want
  • Talk
  • Little Girls

• Sometimes they keep us in the dark, but it's TV, so sometimes they keep us in the dark because even they don't know yet. You know what I mean? So, it sort of develops as it goes along and according to various needs that arise.

  

  Aaron Stanford
  • Know
  • Dark
  • Sometimes

• A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.

  

  Han Fei
  • Father
  • Son
  • Ruler

• Everyone has something that they desperately need that makes them feel good, that they don't want anything to get in the way of. Whether it's a man's golf game, whether it's a woman's cooking. I have a friend who has to clean. She's addicted to cleaning.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Good
  • She
  • Game

• At the end of the day, people want to see how fast you run.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • People
  • Day
  • End

• I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Life
  • School
  • High

• We bled writing these songs, we bled in the studio, and now we're out bleeding getting them right live.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Writing
  • Live
  • Now

• If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • Think
  • Stop

• If your dream is to tell stories, interesting stories, play interesting people, that's the bottom line. The people that I play have to be extraordinary.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Dream
  • Interesting

• To the Muslim woman, the hijab provides a sense of empowerment. It is a personal decision to dress modestly according to the command of a genderless Creator; to assert pride in self, and embrace one's faith openly, with independence and courageous conviction.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Faith
  • Decision
  • Woman

• They are scared that the BBC or CNN may call them radicals, so they remain soft instead. The problem lies there, with the Muslim leaders, not the Muslim masses.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • May
  • Problem
  • Lies

• Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Imagination

• I grew up in Middle America and in the suburbs...

  

  Anna Sui
  • Up
  • America

• Is it possible to live in this world without the operation of will?

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • World
  • Live

• This is a strange - and rather alarming - realisation. For it clearly implies that masturbation is one of our highest faculties that human beings have developed. Many animals masturbate - but never without the presence of another animal, or some similar stimulus. A human being can masturbate in an empty room: a triumph of pure imagination.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Imagination
  • Animal

• I just take every day on faith.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Faith

• My grandmother lived on Elizabeth Street in Little Italy, and she used to go to church every day. She'd go in, light a candle, she'd pray, and as a child, that was comforting to me.

  

  Leah Remini
  • She
  • Light
  • Church

• So virtuous are the programs said to be - pensions for the elderly, compensation for the unemployed, medicine for the sick, and assistance for the disabled - few dare ring the alarm of looming economic catastrophe that threatens to destabilize the civil society.

  

  Mark Levin
  • Society
  • Sick
  • Economic

• Let us re-adopt the Declaration of Independence, and with it, the practices, and policy, which harmonize with it. Let north and south - let all Americans - let all lovers of liberty everywhere - join in the great and good work. If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union; but we shall have so saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of the saving. We shall have so saved it, that the succeeding millions of free happy people, the world over, shall rise up, and call us blessed, to the latest generations.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Generations
  • Americans
  • Union

• If we don’t lift up women who play critical roles in movements, we fail to offer role models to future generations.

  

  Julia Bacha
  • Women
  • Generations
  • Movements