Obama A Promised Land Quotes

#1. One nice thing about growing up Catholic is it makes you open-minded about other people's religions, since ours is nuttier than yours.

Rob Sheffield

#2. I was too Jewish for 'Flashdance.'

Jennifer Grey

#3. Nobody expects a footballer to have any kind of an IQ, which is a bit of an unfair stereotype.

Frank Lampard

#4. I am simply not interested, at this point, in creating narrative scenes between characters.

Lydia Davis

#5. Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

Terry McMillan

#6. An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.

William Feather

#7. Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate. W. H. Auden

Gary L. Thomas

#8. I went to community college for about a year but I'd started taking music seriously by then so I dropped out.

Caitlin Rose

#9. It was the call of workers who organized; women who reached for the ballot; a President who chose the moon as our new frontier; and a King who took us to the mountain top and pointed the way to the Promised Land.
Yes we can!

Barack Obama

#10. There is nothing like desire for obstructing any resemblance between what one says and what one has on one's mind.

Marcel Proust

#11. women are like alcohol. They smell great, they taste delicious, and right or wrong, they kill you slowly, one way or another.

K. Bromberg

#12. The people on the edge of Hell were most afraid of the devil; for those already in hell the devil was only another and no one in particular.

Joanne Greenberg

#13. Most wars, after all, present themselves as humanitarian endeavors to help people.

Howard Zinn

#14. Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it today because it is not of today.

Ralph Waldo Emerson