Acculturative Quotes

#1. Television watching does reduce reading and often encroaches on homework. Much of it is admittedly the intellectual equivalent of junk food. But in some respects, such as its use of standard written English, television watching is acculturative.

Edward Hirsch

#2. If you respect the art and you have some talent about you, I'm on your team.

Anthony Anderson

#3. ... do you truly expect that the two of us are going to share a bed tonight- and tomorrow night- as chastely as a pair of nuns on holiday?"
"That will pose no difficulty for me," Evie said gingerly, conscious that she was delivering an insult of the highest order.

Lisa Kleypas

#4. I had to accept the fact that bad things happen. It's out of our control and I know it hurts like hell but you learn to move on. Yes, the pain never fades and it's the hardest thing you'll ever do but eventually you learn to breathe again.

Joanne McClean

#5. Mother set impossibly high standards for us, creating tremendous pressures and undermining our ability to accomplish whatever modest aims we may have set for ourselves.

Katharine Graham

#6. Every child should have a safe place in their life.

Joe Manchin

#7. If you make an ass out of yourself, there will always be someone to ride you.

Bruce Lee

#8. Winners, I am convinced, imagine their dreams first. They want it with all their heart and expect it to come true. There is, I believe, no other way to live.

Joe Montana

#9. The guy was so freaking old, he should have retired. Or died.

Richelle Mead