#rote

Block Watch, Crime Watch, we have hundreds of thousands of Americans, every day and night, risking their lives, going out for no pay as volunteers, protecting Americans like all of you and not asking anything in return. And the other day I'm speaking in a high school in New Jersey and the youngsters go, oh, you're just like Zimmerman. ↗

— Curtis Sliwa

#asking #block #crime #day #every

When I was eight or nine, I wrote a new version of 'Peter Pan' for the school play. They didn't use it - I imagine it was unperformable - but as recompense for not doing my script, I was offered any role, and instinctively went for Captain Hook. I came on trying to be terrifying, but everyone laughed at me. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#came #captain #doing #eight #everyone

I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful. ↗

— Betty Smith

#brass #clock #embedded #fake #flank

The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned, their rights are protected. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#concerned #far #ground #hands #neutral

Walnuts have a shell, and they have a kernel. Religions are the same. They have an essence, but then they have a protective coating. This is not the only way to put it. But it's my way. So the kernels are the same. However, the shells are different. ↗

— Huston Smith

#essence #however #kernel #only #protective

Every parent wants to know that their children are protected against those who have a particular agenda until they get old enough to make decisions for themselves. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#agenda #children #decisions #enough #every

We do need to have a little bit more protection and sensibility around pensioners. They are remarkable. They gave so much. We need to make sure we do our best by them. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#best #bit #gave #little #little bit

As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#first #first amendment #media #protected #should

Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years. ↗

— Lillian Smith

#ancient #birth #born #borne #forgive

I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry. ↗

— Rick Springfield

#i #kids #poetry #quiet #those