Fannie Lou Hamer Quotes
You know the Scripture says "be not deceived for God is not mocked; whatsoever a man sow that shall he also reap." And one day, I don't know how they're going to get it, but they're going to get some of it back. They are scared to death and are more afraid now than we are.
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We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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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.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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We hear all around us to love ourselves, and one of the ways we can do that is to eat food that serves our body, but also for us to love the food we're eating.
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Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?
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Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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I'm a foodie. I enjoy it a lot, and contrary to what it looks, I eat a lot. My comfort food, of all things, would be southern soul barbecue.
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The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
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You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.
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I like movies where you feel like it was actually thought through.
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I get half a million just to show up at parties. My life is, like, really, really fun.
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Writing a book is not a small undertaking, but God placed it on my heart to trust Him with such a project.
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You have no idea how much the last few days have meant to me," I began. "Meeting you has been the best thing that's ever happened to me.
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Time is the best preserver of righteous men.
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I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
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We are not here to fix, change or belittle another person. We are here to support, forgive and heal one another.
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You know the Scripture says "be not deceived for God is not mocked; whatsoever a man sow that shall he also reap." And one day, I don't know how they're going to get it, but they're going to get some of it back. They are scared to death and are more afraid now than we are.
