Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Adams

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.

James Levine

So, the total number of hours spent on the stuff you have to do to take care of a family, working and caring for stuff at home, the total number of hours is actually about the same for mothers and fathers.

Joan Kirner

There is no such thing as being non-political. Just by making a decision to stay out of politics you are making the decision to allow others to shape politics and exert power over you. And if you are alienated from the current political system, then just by staying out of it you do nothing to change it, you simply entrench it.

Joan Didion

I know what the fear is. The fear is not for what is lost. What is lost is already in the wall. What is lost is already behind the locked doors. The fear is for what is still to be lost.

Jim Yong Kim

We need to have a plan equal to the challenge.

Emma Watson

As a younger woman, that pressure got me down, but I've made my peace with it. With airbrushing and digital manipulation, fashion can project an unobtainable image that's dangerously unhealthy. I'm excited about the ageing process. I'm more interested in women who aren't perfect. They're more compelling.

Emma Watson

Feminism is equality: politically; culturally; socially; economically. That's it, that simple.

Emma Watson

Gender equality, historically has been predominantly a women's movement for women. But I think the impact of gender inequality and how it's affecting men hasn't really been addressed.

Emma Watson

People associate feminism with hate - with man hate - and that's really negative. I don't think that's what feminism is about at all - it's really positive. I think that's why women became reluctant to use the word.

Emma Watson

Men think it's a women's word. But what it means is that you believe in equality, and if you stand for equality, then you're a feminist. Sorry to tell you. You're a feminist. You're a feminist. That's it.

Heidi Klum

I don't have the hard everyday life that so many working mothers face.

Rainer Maria Rilke

If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.

Rachel Weisz

I feel like I'm one of the many working mothers. And I only have one child. I know working mums who have three or four. It's definitely a challenge but it's a wonderful challenge to be able to do both.

Michelle Obama

You all have opportunities and skills and education that so many folks who came before you never could have dreamed of. So just imagine the kind of impact that you're going to make. Imagine how you can inspire those around you to reach higher and complete their own education.

Michelle Obama

We've got a responsibility to live up to the legacy of those who came before us by doing all that we can to help those who come after us.

Sholom Aleichem

No matter how bad things get, you got to go on living, even if it kills you.

Shonda Rhimes

I remember saying, very almost jokingly, I'm going to take over the world through television, that's my plan. And I said it to my agent, and I said it to my friends, and I said it to myself.

Shonda Rhimes

I'm a black woman every day, and I'm not confused about that. I'm not worried about that. I don't need to have a discussion with you about how I feel as a black woman, because I don't feel disempowered as a black woman.

Shonda Rhimes

You want to be a writer? A writer is someone who writes every day, so start writing. You don't have a job? Get one. Any job. Don't sit at home waiting for the magical opportunity. Who are you? Prince William? No. Get a job. Go to work. Do something until you can do something else.

Shonda Rhimes

You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.

Sherman Alexie

If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

John F. Kerry

We can't change minds without knowing what's in them.

John F. Kerry

We will not be derailed by criminal anarchists who legitimately claim a religious cause.

John Elkington

The path to relative economic, social and ecological sustainability is guaranteed to be littered with failures of every nature and scale. If we recognize them and learn from them, the transition will proceed faster and in more resource-efficient ways. If, on the other hand, we prefer the short-term comfort of burying our failures, or of blaming scapegoats, the transition will be significantly slowed, or could even be derailed completely.

Joan Rivers

I was smart enough to go through any door that opened.

Frank A. Clark

Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

George Clooney

The only failure is not to try.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

I'm not okay, you're not okay, and that's okay.

Louise Hay

I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.

Madeleine L'Engle

Infinity is present in each part. A loving smile contains all art. The motes of starlight spark and dart. A grain of sand holds power and might.

Madeleine L'Engle

One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.

Madeleine L'Engle

Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.

John Green

You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your friend’s nose.