#rant

Really, the values under which my generation was raised in the '50s were immigrant values even though we weren't immigrants. The greatest thing you could be was a college-educated Negro. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#even #generation #greatest #greatest thing #immigrant

Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio. ↗

— Melinda Gates

#child #children #differently #get #granted

A thousand restaurants close every month. They re-open, and that's good for America. Nobody's rescuing them. They employ people, too. If we let them go bankrupt, the factories don't go away, the creative people don't go away. They get employed more productively by others. ↗

— John Stossel

#away #bankrupt #close #creative #creative people

Moreover, as we live in an era of the ascendancy of democracy and human rights, we must see that Taiwan has been a vibrant democracy with a democratically elected president and legislature. ↗

— Nick Lampson

#been #democracy #democratically #elected #era

A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee. ↗

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#buds #fragrant #harvest #honey #rose

I don't mind dying if I have to, but I'm damned if I want to pay for the guarantee. I'm sorry. ↗

— Michael Landon

#dying #guarantee #i #mind #pay

I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant. ↗

— Ring Lardner

#hungry #i #i always #known #restaurant

I always was one who didn't take things for granted. But I think I do appreciate things more now. The small moments of joy that we find each day are so much more precious now than when I looked at them before. ↗

— Chris LeDoux

#appreciate #before #day #each #find

I know too that we Americans like to think of ourselves as cleaner than clean, a healthy nation who would never take anything when a recent poll suggested that 65 per cent of the population would risk dying in 10 years if they would be guaranteed Olympic gold. ↗

— Greg LeMond

#cent #clean #cleaner #dying #gold

I make fun wherever I go... If I go to a restaurant by myself, rest assured, people will be talking about it. I always have a great deal of fun being with people. It's part of the journey. ↗

— Cloris Leachman

#always #assured #being #deal #fun