#long

Washington, D.C. in 1942 was not the easiest place in the world for a Negro to get along. ↗

— Gordon Parks

#easiest #get #place #washington #world

So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long overdue review of family law published this week, fills me with horror and despair. ↗

— Louis de Bernieres

#denied #despair #divorced #family #fathers

Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness. ↗

— Ronald Blythe

#death #die #drag #final #itself

It is unfortunate that Americans are no longer aware of what the constitution says and what their rights are. Because of that, we are often very passive about what happens when the government violates those rights. ↗

— James Bovard

#aware #because #constitution #government #happens

I guess I'll retire someday if I live that long. ↗

— Bobby Bowden

#i #live #long #retire #someday

I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions. ↗

— Omar N. Bradley

#am #best #convinced #general #his

I think the days of putting your feet up when you're pregnant are long gone. Women who are nine months pregnant now have to work till the bitter end - they don't get to be on TV. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#bitter end #days #end #feet #get

So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#been #good #journey #kind #long

I think that we need to get along together if we want to survive in the twenty-first century. ↗

— Sarah Polley

#century #get #i #i think #need

You know, now it's sinking in. It's taken me a long time to realize - and it is sinking in - how important this book is. And I have a certain distance now. I've done it such a long time ago. ↗

— Eric Carle

#book #certain #distance #done #how