Quotes About Drinking Fountains

#1. You know, civil rights is great and everything, but a lot of people don't realize that plumbers in the South make less money than when they used to install separate drinking fountains.

Andy Kindler

#2. Do not spit gum in the drinking fountains.

Dave Barry

#3. When I was born there were still different drinking fountains you had to drink out of.

Larry Wilmore

#4. I grew up in Houston, and I remember we had separate drinking fountains, and black people sat in the balcony of the theater ... We had an African-American housekeeper growing up who was really like my second mother. I thought it was silly - hatred just because of the color of somebody's skin.

Dennis Quaid

#5. Now to rivulets from the mountains Point the rods of fortune-tellers; Youth perpetual dwells in fountains, Not in flasks, and casks, and cellars.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#6. While personal maturity may mean being able to see beyond yourself, leadership maturity means considering others before yourself.

John C. Maxwell

#7. I have had a number of threatening letters each week, some telling me the actual time and method of my death, and I don't like it.

Winston Churchill

#8. If your why is strong enough you will figure out how!

Bill Walsh

#9. The English feel schadenfreude even about themselves.

Martin Amis

#10. I am by temperament an optimist, and I thought from the beginning that there was much to be written about suicide that was strangely heartening.

Kay Redfield Jamison