Cynthia McKinney Quotes

Well, I am not afraid of the word 'liberal.'

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• My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.

  

  B. B. King
  • Good
  • Trying
  • She

• I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Love
  • Night
  • Food

• I believe in reincarnation of the soul.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Believe
  • Soul
  • I Believe

• Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Time
  • Nice
  • Sky

• When students have thanked me in the past for being their teacher, I have always felt that it was actually my love for the art of teaching they were speaking to.

  

  Taylor Mali
  • Love
  • Art
  • Past

• I'm a big fan of all those singing competition shows.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Singing
  • Competition
  • Big

• Today's children are taught by our culture that we are a cosmic accident. Something slithered out of the primal slime and over billions of years evolved into a human being. We are cousins, ten times removed, to the ape at the zoo eating his own excrement.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Children
  • Today
  • Culture

• My features are completely ethnic.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Features
  • Ethnic

• When I think, where did I laugh the most, where did I eat the most, where did I just feel good all the time, I would say making the Bond movie 'Die Another Day.' To be part of such an iconic franchise and to travel to exotic places - that was the most fun I ever had.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Time
  • Good
  • Movie

• Nobody has it all, but for me to even come close is amazing.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Me
  • Amazing
  • Nobody

• From the preemptive strike that destroyed Egypt's air force during the Six-Day War, to the daring raid on Entebbe, to using all available means to slow the Iranian nuclear program, Israelis have combined strength with ingenuity to keep the country's enemies at bay.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Country
  • War
  • Air

• You have to build your credentials as a candidate, not just as a woman. You also have to be willing to exercise power. We've been educated to be mothers, peacemakers, but we must learn that we can't please everybody.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Power
  • Woman
  • Exercise

• The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Truth
  • Bad
  • Government

• The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Love
  • Necessary

• Some people are so much sunlight to the square inch. I am still bathing in the cheer he radiated.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • People
  • Cheer

• Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Men
  • Power

• Stout men, not stout walls, make a well-held city.

  

  Andre Norton
  • Men
  • City

• You can't be glued in the '60s. Walking around, going up the pub or popping to Tesco in a hunting jacket.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks
  • Up
  • Walking
  • Hunting

• Our flawed mechanisms of perception and thought are not a cause for grief, but an opportunity to evolve, for an internal evolution of consciousness that will also make possible, in a sustainable form, our aspirations toward what we call individual success and global progress.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Success
  • Opportunity
  • Progress

• It did occur to me that certainly African-Americans are not underserved in picture books, but those books are almost all about specifically black experiences.

  

  Chris Van Allsburg
  • Black
  • Picture

• Kings are like stars - they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • World

• I think recent revelations about who's in what bed speak to the problems with what happened in the Gulf.

  

  Stephanie Tubbs Jones
  • Problem
  • Speak
  • Revelations

• I want to stay alive. Yeah, I want to stay alive. I think that's the main thing. If there's a chance I can live longer, I want to do it.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Live
  • Want
  • Chance

• Well, I am not afraid of the word 'liberal.'

  

  Cynthia McKinney