#wing

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#away #best #call #growing #institutions

I mean, for all of his faults and the troubles in his marriage, Bill Clinton is still married to a girl he met in the library 25 years ago at school. Can we say that about many of our other leaders today in America, including on the right wing? ↗

— Paul Begala

#ago #america #bill #bill clinton #clinton

Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else. ↗

— Alan Bennett

#else #falls #famous #knowing #known

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste. ↗

— A. C. Benson

#good #good taste #important #in fact #knowing

Debra Winger doesn't let anything interfere with her performance, which is the way it should be. ↗

— Tom Berenger

#debra #her #interfere #performance #should

She is one of those ladies who is more beautiful at sixty than she could possibly have been at twenty. (how I hope someone says that about me someday)! ↗

— Mary Ann Shaffer

#growing-old #women #age

I didn't know much about golf growing up. ↗

— Yogi Berra

#golf #growing #growing up #i #know

I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think. ↗

— Halle Berry

#easier #even #i #i see #i think

I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood, so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else, or as smart, or whatever. ↗

— Halle Berry

#else #everybody #everybody else #felt #fit

The capitalists speculate on the two following factors: the female worker must be paid as poorly as possible and the competition of female labour must be employed to lower the wages of male workers as much as possible. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#competition #employed #factors #female #following