Top 15 Umoja Community Quotes
#1. To [the government] it didn't matter what happened to the American people as long as america in the abstract was kept strong.
Isaac Asimov
#4. How unfortunate that sailing was one of the few occupations where a man could be praised for failing, so long as he did it bravely.
Alexandra Bracken
#5. the sooner we confront reality, the sooner we can shift our actions toward producing more desirable results. That
Brian P. Moran
#6. One of the very best reasons for having children is to be reminded of the incomparable joys of a snow day.
Susan Orlean
#7. I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else. We have lethal Sunni v Shia, Catholic against Protestant, but no agnostic suicide bombers attack crowded atheist pubs.
Simon Hoggart
#8. I was raised by two women, and that laid the groundwork for the way I treat 'em: with the utmost respect and admiration.
Jimmy Connors
#9. With no small remorse, she thought, "He and his mess
Better not come near this fabulous dress".
David Rakoff
#10. Maybe what we say to each other is not so important after all, but just that we are alive together, and present for each other as best we can be.
Anne Lamott
#11. Losing too is still ours; and even forgetting
still has a shape in the kingdom of transformation.
When something's let go of, it circles; and though we are
rarely the center
of the circle, it draws around us its unbroken, marvelous
curve.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#12. When I perform, I simply follow the music, and my heart; everything comes from me in a very natural way - it's not a show; and I believe in this way, it also touches the hearts of those in the audience.
Lang Lang
#13. Facts tend to take the punch out of a good hate rant and are therefore left best unsaid.
John Ridley
#15. I think, along with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks will go down as one of the two most well-known and remembered figures out of the Civil Rights Movement.
Douglas Brinkley