#wed

I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who had come back to Poland after the war and talked about why they had come back. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#after #back #cities #come #had

I was one those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually meant to not be reading, my family would frisk me and take the book away. If they didn't find it by this point in the procedure, I would be sitting over in that corner completely unnoticed just reading my book. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#anything #away #bar #before #book

The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were deeply frightened, sad, and angry, and they rallied around a President who, at the time, showed impressive certitude and calm. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#around #attacks #calm #center #certitude

Virtually everywhere in the world, people still wake up and want their country to be more like the United States than any other nation. We are the envy of the world because of what we stand for and how our democratic process, flawed as it may often seem to be, operates. We should take pride in that. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#because #country #democratic #democratic process #envy

When the United States was founded, the very idea of a nation premised on democratic principles of freedom and tolerance was viewed by the vast majority of the world as an experiment doomed to fail. Dictatorships, monarchies, and theocracies had for many centuries ruled the world. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#democratic #dictatorships #doomed #experiment #fail

Tony Blair will be remembered for nothing other than that he followed George W. Bush over a cliff; took the rest of us with them, and we haven't yet reached the bottom, I'm afraid. ↗

— George Galloway

#blair #bottom #bush #cliff #followed

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#equal #her #man #nature #never

I remember when I was in school, they would ask, 'What are you going to be when you grow up?' and then you'd have to draw a picture of it. I drew a picture of myself as a bride. ↗

— Gwen Stefani

#ask #bride #draw #drew #going

I am about to vote. I am about to do something that human beings are rarely allowed to do. I am doing something that did not exist until America. ↗

— Ben Stein

#allowed #am #america #beings #did

The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#crisis #egyptian #followed #had #influence