#ld

My dad told me when I went into high school, 'It's not what you do when you walk in the door that matters. It's what you do when you walk out.' That's when you've made a lasting impression. ↗

— Jim Thome

#door #high #high school #i #impression

If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want to; we don't see race.' Biggest lie ever told. ↗

— Bennie Thompson

#biggest #ever #go #lie #mississippi

It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us how to read, and how to think about life, and maybe, in some small, but mattering way, how to live. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#did #how #just #life #live

Medicare provided guaranteed equal coverage, something that the private sector could not. ↗

— Bennie Thompson

#coverage #equal #guaranteed #medicare #private

He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it burning forever. ↗

— Gilbert Parker

#being #burning #came #declared #devotion

Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry. ↗

— Gilbert Parker

#commandments #different #different set #every #every man

When I lost my decathlon world record I took it like a man. I only cried for ten hours. ↗

— Daley Thompson

#decathlon #hours #i #like #lost

I don't remember my parents together, ever: my father was much older, and really only interested in collecting magazines and bathroom suites; we were the only family in the area to have a bathroom suite on the lawn. ↗

— Paula Yates

#bathroom #collecting #ever #family #father

Would you care to publish this? Sincerely, Robert B. Parker. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#parker #publish #robert #sincerely #would

And if you are a parent, introduce your children to their neighborhood library. It will give them a real sense of independence to have their own library card and enjoy borrowing books. ↗

— Sarah Jessica Parker

#borrowing #card #children #enjoy #give