#grant

Really, the values under which my generation was raised in the '50s were immigrant values even though we weren't immigrants. The greatest thing you could be was a college-educated Negro. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#even #generation #greatest #greatest thing #immigrant

Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio. ↗

— Melinda Gates

#child #children #differently #get #granted

A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee. ↗

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#buds #fragrant #harvest #honey #rose

I always was one who didn't take things for granted. But I think I do appreciate things more now. The small moments of joy that we find each day are so much more precious now than when I looked at them before. ↗

— Chris LeDoux

#appreciate #before #day #each #find

It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads. ↗

— Richard Leakey

#control #impossible #kenya #migrant #northern

Granted, the writers, directors, producers, and that community make a great deal of money. But they might be choosing to do a whole lot of other things for the living they make. ↗

— Norman Lear

#community #deal #directors #granted #great

In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted. ↗

— Tim Berners Lee

#granted #growing #growing up #many #now

Those in the developing world have so few rights - we take a lot for granted in the developed world. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#developed world #developing #developing world #few #granted

What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center. ↗

— Al Lewis

#center #garment #her #immigrant #life

The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#alleviate #corporate #despairing #economic #fair