Them Quotes

I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.

If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

Government workers often get a bad rap, but it's rare for them to receive much appreciation when government works.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn't know about them.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict hard times, bogging down, sniping, attrition.

There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.

So Pa sold the little house. He sold the cow and calf. He made hickory bows and fastened them upright to the wagon box. Ma helped him stretch white canvas over them.

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.

And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you're going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them and even if you don't agree with them.

My mother buried three husbands - and two of them were only napping.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

I think there are some in the Democratic Party - not all - but I think there are some people in the Democratic Party that think that the immigration issue is more valuable to them unsolved. That it gives them something to talk about, that they can go back to Hispanic communities and make unrealistic promises every two years and win votes.

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.

It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.

There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.