George Tillman, Jr. Quotes

I call it soul food, and I call it compassion food because it kind of bonds loved ones together. It kept families together for a long time.

George Tillman, Jr.

• Soul
• Food
• Families

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Career
  • Suffering
  • Enjoy

• Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
  • Speak
  • Silent

• I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Fall
  • Race
  • Back

• None of our family businesses were focused on technology. It was '93 when I came out of law school, and the Internet was taking hold. So I started New World Ventures.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • World
  • Family
  • School

• We have plenty of technologies we could use to destroy the planet, and we don't. There's more love on this planet than hate; there's more creativity than destructive power.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Power
  • Creativity
  • Destroy

• If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.

  

  Sam Farr
  • Right
  • Now
  • Exist

• Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Why
  • Bad
  • Luck

• In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.

  

  Gary Cooper
  • Girl
  • Horse
  • Kiss

• Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Team
  • Focus

• People are saying, 'Big Data is the new oil.'

  

  Gary Wolf
  • People
  • Saying
  • Oil

• I used to be sick of the backroads of Minnesota. I had to drive 30 miles to get home every day, take the schoolbus for two hours. But to drive through America and see the backroads, from Nashville to Memphis, Lovick to New Mexico, was incredible. It was probably the greatest trip of my life.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Life
  • Home
  • America

• One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

  

  Karl A. Menninger
  • Love
  • Fall
  • For Her

• It's not about earning a paycheck, it's about doing something good that you believe in.

  

  Adam Kinzinger
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Doing

• The Indian who was laid under a curse, that the wind should not blow on him, nor water flow to him, nor fire burn him, is a type of us all. The dearest events are summer-rain, and we the Para coats that shed every drop. Nothing is left us now but death. We look to that with a grim satisfaction, saying, there at least is reality that will not dodge us.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Death
  • Reality
  • Water

• I'm not saying that all college students are subhuman - I'm just saying that if you aim to spend a few years mastering the art of pomposity, these are places where you can be taught by undisputed experts.

  

  Lester Bangs
  • Art
  • College

• To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • World
  • Wish
  • Wisdom

• Each demand for security, whether of employment, income or social position, implied the exclusion from such benefits of those outside the particular privileged group - and would generate demands for countervailing privileges from the excluded groups. Eventually, in such a situation every will lose.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

• I think I drift toward sad love songs.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Sad

• And she arose, and in that darkening room Stood lonely as a spirit of the night - Stood calm and fearless in the gathered night - And raised her eyes to heaven. There were tears Upon her face, but in her heart was peace. Peace that the world nor gives nor takes away!

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • World
  • Heart
  • She

• If we choose to walk into a forest where a tiger lives, we are taking a chance. If we swim in a river where crocodiles live, we are taking a chance. If we visit the desert or climb a mountain or enter a swamp where snakes have managed to survive, we are taking a chance.

  

  Peter Benchley
  • Live
  • Mountain
  • River

• Working with Victoria's Secret, it is very celebrated to have curves.

  

  Elsa Hosk

• People say, "I'm tired of hearing about the war in Iraq. I'm tired of hearing about it." And it makes me realize how few people have deeper connections with it, as far as knowing people who have come back paralyzed or who have died, or families that have been affected . . . If they had a connection to it, then they wouldn't be tired of hearing about it.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • People
  • Connection
  • Families

• I call it soul food, and I call it compassion food because it kind of bonds loved ones together. It kept families together for a long time.

  

  George Tillman, Jr.
  • Soul
  • Food
  • Families