Rikers Island Quotes

#1. I came out even with all the struggles I endured on Rikers Island.

Foxy Brown

#2. Once they are charged, too many poor New Yorkers find themselves trapped by our unjust bail system. Unable to pay for bail, they languish in Rikers Island or other jails while they await trial, regardless of guilt.

Eric Schneiderman

#3. I would like to start a discussion about ending solitary confinement. I'd like to start a discussion about the removal of MO wings - an "MO" is a "Mental Observation" inmate - from Rikers Island, to be set up in mental health institutions. You can't put people in jail for having mental disorders.

Cecily McMillan

#4. The most spectacular moment of my daily life is connection with a stranger by communication.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

Albert Camus

#6. History will be erased in the universal purgatory.

Dejan Stojanovic

#7. 'Real Housewives of New Jersey' has taught me more about the nature of a vacuum in space than any of the demonstrations in my high school AP physics textbook.

Andrea Seigel

#8. Issues are like tissues. You pull one out and another appears!

Gary Goldstein

#9. We stared into the eyes of death and death blinked first. Youd think that would make us feel invincible. It didnt

Rick Yancey

#10. We don't want anything from the government but that furtive little fellow called the truth - which, by the way, they'll never give you - which you have to go out and find by talking to people.

Morley Safer

#11. I'd rather walk in the dark with Jesus than to dance in the light on my own

Wayne Watson

#12. The simplest things are the hardest to understand.

Kevin Wilson

#13. Avery pushed to her feet. "I'll

Nora Roberts

#14. He wants her to want him with the same intensity. She looks upon him with lusts draw and whispers, Take me, I am yours.

Truth Devour

#15. Whenever we hear an opinion and believe it, we make an agreement, and it becomes part of our belief system.

Miguel Ruiz

#16. People got such a charge from seeing their names in print. Proof of existence. I could picture a squabble of ghosts ripping through piles of newspapers. Pointing at a name on the page. See, there I am. I told you I lived. I told you I was.

Gillian Flynn

#17. It started last year, during the summer. I went to the doctor and they found out it was kidney stones, so they had surgery done to help get those out and to pass them ... More just kept coming in. So I had all together before the last show ... I had like five surgeries.

Phillip Phillips

#18. You can choose to live your lives as demonstrations of your highest and grandest beliefs, rather than as denials of them.

Neale Donald Walsch