Hyphenate Quotes

#1. In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.

Toni Morrison

#2. In our time, Universalism as such, like a spinster lady late in life, took a husband, and although they agreed to hyphenate their married name, by now the offspring of that union often simply call themselves by the husband's name, and in time may not recognize her name at all.

Max Coots

#3. Being a melting pot is what I think is great about being American, and also that we get to do something that other people don't get to do, we get to be a hyphenate. That's a good thing.

Keegan-Michael Key

#4. Rowen ... " he called, not quite an order but several degrees much too authoritative for my "I am woman, hear me roar and hyphenate my last name" liking.

Nicole Williams

#5. Why hyphenate, why parenthesize, unless absolutely necessary?

Margaret Atwood

#6. I enjoy being a hyphenate. I've always thought of my career as a plate spinner in the circus.

Neil Patrick Harris

#7. We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions.

Salman Rushdie

#8. This will be my 54th trip to Augusta. I got $20,000 for winning the Masters. Now I get $10,000 to go there and eat a free steak.

Bob Goalby

#9. It's like obituaries, when you die they finally give you good reviews.

Roger Maris

#10. And to think of all colors in the world, blood chose to be red." ~ The Fray Theory

Nelou Keramati

#11. No new choices are introduced by raising the specter of disaster. These become opportunities for swearing new allegiance to technology. The solution is to discover new technologies that will correct and modify the harm either potentially or already caused by present technologies.

Donald Phillip Verene

#12. If we are to pray well, we too must discover the Lord to whom we speak, and if we use the Psalms in our prayer we will stand a better chance of sharing in the discovery which lies hidden in their words for all generations. For God has willed to make Himself known to us in the mystery of the Psalms.

Thomas Merton

#13. No team is complete without a good technician, and the word for an incomplete team is usually fatality.

Mira Grant

#14. Explore fully the sacred-moment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. All of us live with our own demons, do penance in our private ways. We need our friends for support and advice, but we draw our strength from within.

Paul Levine

#16. In my work as an actress and an activist, I've spent many years working with low income communities and people of color who don't always have a voice in our political process.

Gloria Reuben

#17. The eye is the jewel of the body.

Henry David Thoreau

#18. In sum, the Court's conclusion that a constitutionally adequate recount is impractical is a prophecy the Court's own judgment will not allow to be tested. Such an untested prophecy should not decide the Presidency of the United States. I dissent.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#19. How can something that's a part of me hurt?

Jennifer L. Armentrout