#were

I have worked on very good movies that have been buried, and I've worked on some resounding mediocrities that have been paraded through the marketplace like they were masterpieces. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#buried #good #good movies #i #like

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household. ↗

— Erica Jong

#earth #household #housewives #perhaps #sense

When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love. ↗

— Erica Jong

#authors #could #dust #i #icons

Even as I stand here and admit that we have made mistakes I still believe that as the people of America sit in judgment on each party, they will recognize that our mistakes were mistakes of the heart. They'll recognize that. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#america #believe #each #even #heart

My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes. ↗

— Michael Jordan

#else #having #heroes #i #parents

All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers. ↗

— Chief Joseph

#brothers #chief #great #great spirit #made

We did not know there were other people besides the Indian until about one hundred winters ago, when some men with white faces came to our country. ↗

— Chief Joseph

#ago #besides #came #country #did

We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone. ↗