Mary Berry Quotes

#1. If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing.

Mary Frances Berry

#2. Cakes are healthy too, you just eat a small slice.

Mary Berry

#3. The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?

Edwin Markham

#4. If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.

Robert F. Goheen

#5. When I started this run, I said that if we all gave one dollar, we'd have $22 million for cancer research, and I don't care man, there's no reason that isn't possible. No reason!

Terry Fox

#6. Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them.

Mary Frances Berry

#7. The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.

Mary Frances Berry

#8. I always thought there would be ice in hell

Stanislaw Lem

#9. She was tired and in no mood for anyone's similes but her own.

Tove Jansson

#10. Everything God says is true,
everything a person says is suspect,
everything the devil says is a lie.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#11. I have been the victim of heartless malice.

Taylor Caldwell

#12. We need to insist on fathers and mothers sharing the care of their offspring as well as the opportunity to enjoy the fulfillment of individual rights.

Mary Frances Berry

#13. Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create our own opportunities.

Mary Frances Berry

#14. When it comes to the cause of justice, I take no prisoners and I don't believe in compromise.

Mary Frances Berry

#15. In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.

Huston Smith

#16. The adoring crowds and overwhelming Democratic support in the 2008 election was based largely on joy at jettisoning Bush and the appeal of electing a superbly qualified charismatic African American leader.

Mary Frances Berry

#17. Defining child care primarily as women's sphere reinforces the devaluing of women and prevents their equal access to power.

Mary Frances Berry

#18. Have an attitude of gratitude.

Thomas S. Monson

#19. Advocating women's rights and greater opportunity for women in the workplace and in every avenue of public life is inconsistent with an insistence on mother taking care of children and housework.

Mary Frances Berry

#20. Analysis can tell us what is required, but it cannot make us act.

Mary Frances Berry

#21. When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe.

Mary Frances Berry