#ted

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#father #me #mother #protected #threatened

Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#hearer #journey #laugh #misfortunes #nothing

I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty. ↗

— Davy Crockett

#country #disgrace #done #duty #elected

The combination of Federalism and Republicanism which formed the substance of the system, did not constitute a progressive and formative political principle, but it pointed in the direction of a constructive formula. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#constitute #constructive #did #direction #federalism

The popular will cannot be taken for granted, it must be created. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#created #granted #must #popular #taken

I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey, I don't like white people.' ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#created #fact #generation #hey #i

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#cultivate #cultivated #taste

I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated. ↗

— Walter Cronkite

#debated #gone #i #man #most

He wanted me to learn to stand on my own feet, and to make it impossible for me to thank him. ↗

— Bob Crosby

#him #impossible #learn #make #me

I have invited our little seamstress to take her thread and needle and sew our two mouths together. ↗

— Harry Crosby

#i #invited #little #mouths #needle