#nit

I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy, and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age, he wanted to be an Episcopal priest, because he so admired his priest, a black man from someplace called Haiti. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#admired #age #because #black #boy

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity! ↗

— Paul Gauguin

#fraction #hardly #life #little #little time

Never relinquish the initiative. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#never #relinquish

A street thug and a paid killer are professionals - beasts of prey, if you will, who have dissociated themselves from the rest of humanity and can now see human beings in the same way that trout fishermen see trout. ↗

— Willard Gaylin

#beings #fishermen #human #human beings #humanity

But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting. ↗

— Philip Gibbs

#fighting #had #handicap #individual #naming

Mobile entertainment is a huge opportunity. We are committed to mobile just as much as we are to PCs. ↗

— Rob Glaser

#entertainment #huge #huge opportunity #just #mobile

I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living. ↗

— Ellen Glasgow

#came #difference #events #exalted #i

Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting. ↗

— Ellen Glasgow

#down #knitting #like #sit #trouble

The fact that the price of gasoline has declined some in recent weeks must not allow Americans to be lulled into a false sense of security. Energy independence must rank along with border security as the top priorities of the United States. ↗

— Virgil Goode

#along #border #border security #declined #energy

It was the beginning of film for television. So we had all of these great opportunities. Northwestern was probably the only major film school of its kind at the time that was graduating anybody important. ↗

— Richard Donner

#beginning #film #film school #graduating #great