Kevin Eubanks Quotes

It's shameful what's happening in this country in terms of what we deny our children.

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• For nearly a century and a half, this country deluded itself into thinking that its greatest calamity, the Civil War, had nothing to do with one of its greatest sins, enslavement. It deluded itself in this manner despite available evidence to the contrary.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • War

• I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Life
  • Live
  • Children

• I am on Facebook, but mainly as a way to spy on my children. I find out more about them from their Facebook pages than from what they tell me.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Children
  • Facebook
  • Spy

• There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • People
  • Country
  • Man

• The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • World
  • Children
  • Growing

• The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Children
  • Always
  • Revolution

• I don't want to let the rest of this country drift into the abyss. I want to fight for it.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Country
  • Want
  • Rest

• It has been suggested that those of us who are fighting to defend liberty - fighting to turn around the out-of-control spending and out-of-control debt in this country, fighting to defend the Constitution, it has been suggested that we are wacko birds.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Country
  • Control
  • Fighting

• It's hard to absorb and to allow all that attention and accolades for 'Rent' because the rest of the country doesn't know who we are. Once I walk out of the door of 'Rent,' and I'm on the subway, it doesn't matter. It's an exaggerated sense of fame.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Country
  • Attention
  • Rest

• I'll take a look and get a second wind because so many little children are running around at my side.

  

  Oxana Chusovitina
  • Children
  • Running
  • Wind

• The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • America
  • Look

• Sir, allusion has been made, in an early stage of this debate, to the history of the excitement which once pervaded a considerable part of the country, in reference to the transportation of the mails on the Lord's day.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • Country
  • History
  • Day

• Children crave routine and find listening to the same stories over and over again soothing. If you've grown weary of the holiday books you've read your kid 7,883 times, try adding 'dude' to the end of every line of dialogue.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Children
  • Listening
  • End

• I like children - fried.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Children
  • Funny
  • Like

• I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Children
  • Husband
  • Most

• I love to add '90s trends mixed with modern day pieces I find along my many travels. Like these cool fun hats from Europe I have. I love to collect different ones from every country. I have them from London to Brussels.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Country
  • Fun
  • Day

• The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Children
  • Humanity
  • Service

• If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Country
  • Family
  • Mother

• My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child–wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to cry.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Mind
  • Children
  • House

• I don't make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to be a part of that process.

  

  Jodie Foster

• I always wanted to write for children. When I was growing up, we were really poor. My mother had left, and it was all a mess. So I lived in my head a lot, and I would get lots of books for Christmas - from librarians and teachers - and they just fed my imagination.

  

  Jewell Parker Rhodes
  • Up
  • Children
  • Mother

• Substandard housing was a blow to your psychological health, not only because things like dampness, mold, and overcrowding could bring about depression but also because of what living in awful conditions told you about yourself.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Health
  • Depression
  • Blow

• It took Cianfrance 12 years to bring 'Blue Valentine' to the screen after he first conceived it. He found Gosling and Williams early on, and they hung in there with him. The film finally premiered at Sundance 2010, then screened at Cannes and the Toronto Film Festival before landing in theaters in December.

  

  Katie Hafner
  • Blue
  • December

• It's shameful what's happening in this country in terms of what we deny our children.

  

  Kevin Eubanks
  • Country
  • Children