Gulfport Quotes

#1. I ran my hand over my face in disbelief. One minute I was thinking about the best way to end it all, and the next minute I was headed for Gulfport on a mule. My guardian angel was definitely working overtime.

Manel Loureiro

#2. When I was born here in Gulfport in 1966, my parents' interracial marriage was still illegal, and it was very hard to drive around town with my parents, to be out in public with my parents.

Natasha Trethewey

#3. My name is Natasha Trethewey, and I was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, in 1966, exactly 100 years to the day that Mississippi celebrated the first Confederate Memorial Day, April 26, 1866.

Natasha Trethewey

#4. When I was growing up there, North Gulfport was referred to as 'Little Vietnam' because of the perception of crime and depravity within its borders - as if its denizens were simply a congregation of the downtrodden.

Natasha Trethewey

#5. One of two historically African American communities that sprang up along the Mississippi Gulf Coast after emancipation, North Gulfport has always been a place where residents have had fewer civic resources than those extended to other outlying communities.

Natasha Trethewey

#6. I was always very aware of the nature of the place where I was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, how that place was shaping my experience of the world. I had to go to the Northeast for graduate school because I felt like I had to get far away from my South, be outside it, to understand it.

Natasha Trethewey

#7. The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men [and women], of saying his say to himself and to others. It is not a question of pay ...

Robert Henri

#8. People may remember something I did on the field for a couple of days, maybe a week.

LaDainian Tomlinson

#9. Being a Labour home secretary in the 21st century means fighting a constant battle against both extreme Right and Left.

David Blunkett

#10. The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person ...

Barack Obama

#11. People always like to hear that they're under stress, makes them feel better. You can imagine what they'd feel if they were told they weren't under stress.

Donald Barthelme

#12. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Parkinsons Disease Foundation,

Anonymous

#13. Laughter is a powerful way to tap positive emotions

Norman Cousins

#14. Usually what is difficult for me are things that make me feel scared. That's when difficulties rather than challenges arise.

Jenny Slate

#15. We, the living, must find what space we can alongside them; the giant dead whom we cannot tie down, though we grasp at their hair, though we rope them while they sleep

Salman Rushdie

#16. Thank God I never got in a fight. All of the jock dudes hated me, but all of their girlfriends thought I was nice so they wouldn't touch me. It was infuriating to them.

Mark Hoppus

#17. We must seize life because we never know how much of it remains for us, that faith is the antidote to despair and that laughter is the music of faith.

Dean Koontz

#18. Because if you tell a lie when you are being eaten by a nearly dead queen, you are always struck dumb.

Colin Thompson

#19. A good time occurs precisely when we lose track of what time it is.

Robert Farrar Capon

#20. I learn every day, and I know that I will never stop learning.

Stacy Keibler