#esa

It’s quite odd, in a land of so many different cultures, religions, ethnicity's, languages, and faces to match them all, that my white face under a scarf should cause such confusion. For some reason, my explanation of being “white” solidifies my American-ness in their minds. It shouldn’t be that way, but it is. I don’t know how to fix it. I guess I’ll just go on stumping a while longer. Maybe someday scientists will come up with a cure. ↗

— Theresa McCune

#ethnicity #hijab #islam #race #religion

My capital budget maintains my commitment to the education of children, health of the Chesapeake Bay, and safety of all Maryland citizens. We will continue to focus on the five pillars of my Administration as we build today and look forward to the projects of the future. ↗

— Robert. L. Ehrlich

#bay #budget #build #capital #chesapeake

I daresay I was the worst bed partner in five continents. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#continents #daresay #five #i #partner

Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in India, a woman dying in the street will share her banana with anyone who needs it, whereas in America, people amass and hoard as many bananas as they can to sell for an exorbitant profit. So half of them go bad, anyway. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#amass #america #anyone #anyway #bad

I mean, our primary businesses in wholesale pipelines, utilities, retail, were all doing extremely well. ↗

— Kenneth Lay

#doing #extremely #i #mean #our

If my life was a song it would be, 'It ain't that easy being green' from Sesame Street. ↗

— Jacob Lusk

#easy #green #life #my life #sesame

Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#art #does #east #hand #know

For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string. ↗

— Spike Milligan

#finally #foot #hand #iron #piece

My mother and father, Joe and Theresa Montana brought me along and taught me to never quit, and to strive to be the best. ↗

— Joe Montana

#best #brought #father #joe #me

In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves. ↗

— John Lothrop Motley

#gaul #nobility #orders #people #priesthood