#insist

Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy. ↗

— Cathy Guisewite

#comic #comic strip #drawings #enjoy #imagine

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#education #extent #found #i #insist

True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist. ↗

— Kent McCord

#business #fade #friendships #hollywood #insist

I've never met or spoken to David Lee Roth, yet it's rather ironic that even he's saying Eddie's lying about things. I'm saying he's not telling the truth, yet Eddie insists that the two of us are lying! You be the judge. ↗

— Sammy Hagar

#david #eddie #even #i #insists

We should insist that governments receiving American aid live up to standards of accountability and transparency, and we should support countries that embrace market reforms, democracy, and the rule of law. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

#aid #american #countries #democracy #embrace

I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#calling #describe #elsewhere #i #insist

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#coming #course #having #insist #mind

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals. ↗

— Brigid Brophy

#believing #consign #equals #i #insist

Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children. ↗

— Patrick Buchanan

#evolution #godless #insist #parents #right

Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history. ↗

— August Wilson

#away #forget #history #insist #itself