Shirley Chisholm (Shirley Anita Chisholm) Quotes
I’d like them to say that Shirley Chisholm had guts. That’s how I’d like to be remembered.Shirley Chisholm
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You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.
Adam McKay -
Everyone deals with loss. I'm no different, but we all find our ways of coming through things. Is it tough? Of course, but you find the strength to push on through.
Carlene Carter -
The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.
H. L. Mencken -
All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.
W. C. Fields -
Southerners have this love of embellishment. Even when you read a police report, there's some backstory.
Karin Slaughter -
A lot of chefs don't have a natural sense of economy. I was with one guy the other day, and I had to show him how to peel a turnip, because the way he was peeling turnips, he was throwing half of it in the garbage. It's not about being cheap. It's about being proper.
Daniel Boulud
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Get low; grace will meet you there.
Jack Miller -
As commander I was responsible for the overall success of the mission, and so I had to know at least a little bit about everything.
Leroy Chiao -
He hadn’t a single redeeming vice.
Oscar Wilde -
We assume a common sense as the necessary condition of the universal communicability of our knowledge, which is presupposed in every logic and every principle of knowledge that is not one of skepticism.
Immanuel Kant -
Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.
Ernest Hemingway -
With every true friendship, we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Evangelion (that we call the gospel) is a Greek word and signifieth good, merry, glad and joyful tidings, that maketh a man's heart glad and maketh him sing, dance, and leap for joy.
William Tyndale -
The person who builds a character makes foes.
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield -
You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.
Johnny Depp -
Whatever you do, please don’t think of sleep as wasted time, an indulgence, or a generous reservoir from which you can steal time for work. Do what your brain and body beg you to do: get enough sleep.
Edward Hallowell -
Thirst comes with drinking when the wine is good.
Emile Augier -
A chair must be really important as an object, because my mother always told me to offer my chair to a lady
Ettore Sottsass
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My dad was a produce man. He worked in grocery stores for 35 years. My mom just babysat kids and raised us. I have four sisters and one brother. I'm the baby.
Brandon Flowers The Killers -
Before, if I thought Christmas, I would have remembered my past on Earth and would have succumbed to the aching sadness for a life I can never have again. Now, I can think the word and not feel anything but a dull ache, a phantom pain for a part of my life that’s been amputated.
Beth Revis -
I’d like them to say that Shirley Chisholm had guts. That’s how I’d like to be remembered.
Shirley Chisholm