Raising Queens Quotes

#1. It is defeat that lives on and takes the years to smother.

Ben Robertson

#2. What everybody's looking for today, they're looking for escape-ism.

James Brown

#3. Let us stun and astonish the intruding rabble of men and books and institutions by a simple declaration of the divine fact. Bid the invaders take the shoes from off their feet, for God is here within.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.

Vince Lombardi

#5. No man stops caring as long as he breathes. As long as he has a mind and memory, he will care. This is what separates us from the animals. We have feelings.

F. Sionil Jose

#6. All of you who have been through high dose psychedelic experiences know that it's very hard to carry stupid baggage through that keyhole. In fact you're lucky if you just get your soul and yourselves through and intact.

Terence McKenna

#7. ...these sleepless nights, when oddly enough my concentration was high, fueled perhaps by the effort to ignore the all-engrossing threat of bombs and rockets.

Azar Nafisi

#8. In my mind, partial failure is always better than delusory success.

William A. Henry III

#9. Besides all this, if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who are slaves, and do all in your power to prevent their being free.

Jupiter Hammon

#10. We laughed harder than the humor deserved, which goes to show you no matter your age, you're closer to adolescence than you think.

Lorna Landvik

#11. I took a gap year myself after high school and worked on a farm near Lyon, France. I stayed with the Vallet family, picked and packed fruit, and discovered that red wine can be a breakfast drink. That led to further travel as a university student.

Nicholas Kristof