#gains

I believe that the fight against crime starts in the home. Parents must take responsibility for their children and show them love and guidance from an early age so they learn to respect the rights of others. ↗

— Blanche Lincoln

#age #believe #children #crime #early

You know, for most of its life bluegrass has had this stigma of being all straw hats and hay bales and not necessarily the most sophisticated form of music. Yet you can't help responding to its honesty. It's music that finds its way deep into your soul because it's strings vibrating against wood and nothing else. ↗

— Alison Krauss

#because #being #bluegrass #deep #else

To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#away #book #ghost #holy #holy ghost

All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf. ↗

— Helen Thomas

#goes #presidents #press #rail #turf

People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against that. ↗

— Stanley Tucci

#broadway #law #people #shorts #should

The Muslims wanted to reign over the whole of Mostar, then gain ground to the sea and finally create an Islamic state. That is what our Croatians defend themselves against. ↗

— Franjo Tudjman

#create #defend #finally #gain #ground

In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#against #apartheid #beings #children #classification

It is a huge honour to be recognised as the world's best commentator, particularly against so many sporting greats. ↗

— Murray Walker

#best #commentator #greats #honour #huge

In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish. ↗

— Simone Weil

#anguish #forms #never #new #only

Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations. ↗

— Simon Wiesenthal

#crimes #humanity #justice #limitations #must