Ledbetter Quotes

#1. committing suicide. Therese did manage to arrange for

Craig A. Ledbetter

#2. The Supreme Court told me that I should have filed a complaint within six months of the company's first decision to pay me less even though I didn't know about it for nearly two decades.

Lilly Ledbetter

#3. Because women still earn just 77 cents for every dollar men make. Those pennies add up to real money.

Lilly Ledbetter

#4. Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.

Olympia Snowe

#5. We sought justice because equal pay for equal work is an American value. That fight took me ten years. It took me all the way to the Supreme Court. And, in a 5-4 decision, they stood on the side of those who shortchanged my pay, my overtime, and my retirement just because I am a woman.

Lilly Ledbetter

#6. [During] the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter [Fair Pay Act], equal pay for equal work, the women led that fight.

Barbara Mikulski

#7. The blues is like this. You lay down some night and you turn from one side of the bed to the other: all night long. It's not too cold in that bed, and it ain't too hot. But what's the matter? The blues has got you.

Huddie William Ledbetter

#8. The universe can best be pictured as consisting of pure thought, the thought of what for want of a better word we must describe as a mathematical thinker.

James Jeans

#9. I'll be happy if the last thing they say about me after I die is that I made a difference.

Lilly Ledbetter

#10. I always sings too long and too loud.

Huddie William Ledbetter

#11. Textbook publishers don't even bother to advertise at their conventions.

Peter Brimelow

#12. You can master your weather. You can make it what you want. You can have storms or sunshine. You can duck and hide or walk out in the open.

Patricia Cornwell

#13. Doctor, if I put this here guitar down now I ain't never going to wake up.

Huddie William Ledbetter

#14. A moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips," Mrs. Ledbetter taunted. "I'd think twice about dessert. Besides, we don't have a trough.

Nick Wilgus

#15. The key to understanding is to know what the cause is!

V. Duwane Ledbetter

#16. Listen here people, listen to me
Don't try to buy no home down in Washington D.C.
'Cause it's a bourgeois town
wooh it's a bourgeois town!
I got the bourgeois blues
I'm gonna spread the news all around

Huddie Ledbetter

#17. The positive side about dealing with the logistics of moving books around is that it's better than a gym!

Ian Christe

#18. If you're white, you're alright.
If you're brown, stick around.
but if you're black, oh baby.
Get back, Get back, Get back.

Huddie William Ledbetter

#19. There's nothing I wouldn't do, no matter how dirty or hard.

Lilly Ledbetter

#20. Twenty-three cents may not sound like a lot to someone with a Swiss bank account.

Lilly Ledbetter

#21. Never doubt in the dark what God has shown you in the light.

Suzanne Woods Fisher

#22. I should have been thinking more about my family, how I raised my children, how I maintained life's work, so to speak.

Joe Namath

#23. My guitar is half my life and my wife is the other half.

Huddie William Ledbetter

#24. Guns' aka Luke Gunner had a record as long as my cock. Believe me, it was impressive." ~Lloyd Ledbetter

Eva LeNoir

#25. Imagine, they said, living an existence where the words out of your mouth changed the very fabric of the world around you.

David Anthony Durham

#26. The laity ought to understand the faith, and since the doctrines of our faith are in the Scriptures, believers should have the Scriptures in a language familiar to the people, and to this end the Holy Ghost endued them with knowledge of all tongues.

John Wycliffe

#27. So he did what all great men do, in the beginning, before they become great men. He stepped up.

Matt Wallace

#28. The most important thing a government can do is not what it does but what it doesn't.

Mark David Ledbetter

#29. I am not insane," he said. "A woman of your highly advanced intellect ought to be able to perceive that I am in love. With you. I wish you had told me. It was deuced embarrassing to find it out from your *brother*.

Loretta Chase

#30. Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to ensure fair pay for women in the workplace. In addition, he succeeded in getting a measure passed to end discrimination against gays in the military.

Kitty Kelley

#31. In the end, I didn't get a dime of the money I was shortchanged.

Lilly Ledbetter

#32. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and John Marshall, all big men, and strong in every sense, deferred to him.

Mark David Ledbetter

#33. Every day may not be good, but there is something good in every day!

V. Duwane Ledbetter