#tod

In America today, the percentage of children and adolescents who are defined as overweight is more than double what it was in the early 1970s. ↗

— Lois Capps

#children #defined #double #early #more

Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us. ↗

— Al Capp

#ignorant #just #listened #my own #nobody

One sweetly solemn thought, comes to me o'er and o'er; I am nearer home today, than I ever have been before. ↗

— Phoebe Cary

#been #before #comes #ever #home

Now, in Texas, we believe in the rugged individual. Texas may be the one place where people actually still have bootstraps, and we expect folks to pull themselves up by them. But we also recognize there are some things we can't do alone. We have to come together and invest in opportunity today for prosperity tomorrow. ↗

— Julian Castro

#alone #also #believe #bootstraps #come

I would hate to be a new artist or writer in town today. But somehow the cream continues to rise. If there's one who's great, he just jumps out of the pack like you can't believe. ↗

— Steven Curtis Chapman

#believe #continues #cream #great #hate

Some of today's athletes do not have that kind of pride. They left school at 16, have never had a job in their life and are getting Lottery funding, earning money as an athlete. ↗

— Linford Christie

#athletes #earning #funding #getting #had

Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and new dimensions. ↗

— Albert Claude

#dimensions #einstein #faiths #new #newton

Looking at female candidates today, other women are the hardest on them, especially older women who were brought up in a different culture. ↗

— Eleanor Clift

#candidates #culture #different #especially #female

As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#censors #condemned #erase #furiously #government

The problem that faces our country today, the last 30 years we have lived off the future, and the bill is coming due. So there cannot be anything that is not put on the table. There will not be one American that will not be called to sacrifice. Those that are more well-to-do will be called to sacrifice to a greater extent. ↗

— Tom Coburn

#anything #bill #called #cannot #coming