Ronald Takaki Quotes

#1. The nation was founded and "dedicated," to use Lincoln's language in the "Gettysburg Address," to equality as a "self-evident truth." But this very principle of equality, as Lincoln also noted, was a "proposition." To make it a reality remained "the unfinished work" of Americans.

Ronald Takaki

#2. Only a good bishop can be sacrificed, a bad bishop can only be lost.

Yuri Razuvaev

#3. There's always a bloody ghost.

Christopher Moore

#4. Life is fluid, ever evolving. The more dynamic you are, the more happens in your life, all the time.

Jaggi Vasudev

#5. Needless to say, food is used to constrain as well as to unify the members of many faiths. Most religions meddle in the day-to-day culinary habits of their adherents.

Michael Krondl

#6. The task for me is to not only comprehend the world, but to change the world. I would like to see a world where America lives up to its ideals, and resolves the contradiction between reality and principles.

Ronald Takaki

#7. What positive things have you said to yourself today? Acknowledge your greatness.

Chalene Johnson

#8. Ladies and gentlemen, it is not the job of government to be the national nanny. The average citizen can look after his or her own needs without assistance from somebody who works here in Washington.

Tom Clancy

#9. My parents were not affluent people and were not - didn't come from the extremities of education. My mother had a high school diploma. I often think I so wish she'd come out of the hills in Appalachia and been able to go on to college. I think she would have made a wonderful teacher.

Dwight Yoakam

#10. The unspoken motto of our house: If you stay closer to the ground, you have less distance to fall,

Rebecca Serle