Nita Lowey Quotes
Eighty-six percent of the gun death of children under the age of 14 internationally is right here in the United States of America. It is madness.
Quotes to Explore
-
Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!
-
I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him and tell his children, 'Go to college. Get that education - it is so important. Don't do like I did.' I had all this singing on my mind, and I just didn't have time for it.
-
When I first visited the Hospice in Milton, I had a pre-conceived idea as to what to expect. Far from being a clinical, depressing place for sick children, it was a home. Most importantly, it was a family home, a happy place of stability, support and care. It was a place of fun.
-
In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.
-
I think it's time that we all be there for the children, to learn from the ones who came before us, and to teach our sons and daughters to have respect for themselves. Break the cycle.
-
My children went to Bethesda Elementary School. I wouldn't do anything to endanger the safety of Bethesda.
-
Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do.
-
Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
-
I've worked very hard to become comfortable with how death works and why it happens. I now know that death isn't out to get me.
-
I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.
-
I hold that the beginning of modern Irish drama was in the winter of 1898, at a school feast at Coole, when Douglas Hyde and Miss Norma Borthwick acted in Irish in a Punch and Judy show; and the delighted children went back to tell their parents what grand curses 'An Craoibhin' had put on the baby and the policeman.
-
The stroke has given me another way to serve people. It lets me feel more deeply the pain of others; to help them know by example that ultimately, whatever happens, no harm can come. 'Death is perfectly safe,' I like to say.
-
A sort of anteneurosis of what I will be when I will not longer be freezes my body and soul. A kind of remembrance of my future death makes me shudder from the inside.
-
When soon I sail from here, I may again run into such a storm as the one in Kvasefjord. But this time I shall clearly understand that it is not a play in the theatre, but it is death. and it seems too that then, in the last moment before we go down, I can in in all truth be yours...
-
Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.
-
I have always - at least, ever since I can remember - had a kind of longing for death.'
-
No legend told its children of beautiful princesses falling in love with conscientious objectors.
-
By starving our children of men, we have made them more vulnerable to the very abuse we are trying to prevent. – page 97.
-
I touched her thigh and death smiled
-
After asking questions about current recovery techniques, the conversation prompted me to ask myself, 'Why does it feel good after running to pour a bottle of water over your head?' I don't know the physiological answer, but the fact that it does feel better makes me perform better.
-
One thing I've had to realize in my career is that I can't do it all. Sometimes we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to make sure we're writing the next hit. There are other people out there, and that's what they do every day, and they have strengths that I don't have.
-
I had a very difficult relationship with my mother. She used to wake me up in the middle of the night if I wasn't sleeping straight and was messing up the sheets. Now when I stay in hotels I sleep so straight they don't even think I've used the bed.
-
I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New Testament studies and a sense of the ruling elite in theology and biblical studies.
-
Eighty-six percent of the gun death of children under the age of 14 internationally is right here in the United States of America. It is madness.
