Shirley Chisholm (Shirley Anita Chisholm) Quotes
There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.
Shirley Chisholm
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
Walt Handelsman
As I recovered at Walter Reed, I worried about the soldiers who pulled me out of my helicopter that Friday afternoon. Would they make it back okay? And what about all the other soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen who were also putting their lives on the line every day?
Tammy Duckworth
The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.
Orson Scott Card
In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education.
Barack Obama
My house has changed a little in the sun. The fragrance of the magnolias come close, False flick, false form, but falseness close to kin.
Wallace Stevens
A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts and to the singing of a bird outside his window and to the far-away voice of the sea.
Axel Munthe
Life is not perfect.
Javier Bardem
Magic is what it is, and those who work it can be male or female; it doesn't matter. What matters is power.
Judith Tarr
Ἔστι· θεοῦ δ᾽ ἔτ᾽ ἰσχὺς καθυπερτέρα·πολλάκι δ᾽ ἐν κακοῖσι τὸν ἀμάχανονκἀκ χαλεπᾶς δύας ὕπερθ᾽ ὀμμάτωνκρημναμενᾶν νεφελᾶν ὀρθοῖ.
Aeschylus
There is no evidence that dogs have the kind of complex emotional lives and value systems that we do. It's one reason why we love them so much, in fact. They are neither "good" nor "bad." They don't hold grudges, act in petty ways, or seek revenge. They read our moods, but not our minds.
Jon Katz
I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.'
Alexandra Guarnaschelli
There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.
Shirley Chisholm
