C. Kennedy Quotes
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
It's disgraceful that year after year, Congress has bowed to the tobacco lobby and refused to act.
We were taught never to give up, never to passively accept fate, but to exhaust every last ounce of will and hope in the face of any challenge.
If you look throughout human history ... the central epiphany of every religious tradition always occurs in the wilderness.
Productivity is the deliberate, strategic investment of your time, talent, intelligence, energy, resources, and opportunities in a manner calculated to move you measurably closer to meaningful goals.
The Christian community has a golden opportunity to train an army of dedicated teachers who can invade the public school classrooms and use them to influence the nation for Christ.
My life is a rather grim one. One day I shall perhaps describe it to you in great detail.
I’ve never really been contained to just one style. My listening choice has always been so mixed up.
I don't remember my father reading to me, but I remember him telling me bedtime stories. I got to pick what was in them, and then he'd make them up.
Sometimes you don't know if you're Caesar about to cross the Rubicon or Captain Queeg cutting your own tow line.
I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
If there is one path above all others to war, it is the path of weakness and disunity.
The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage.
Here I am a woman attorney being told I can't practice law in slacks by a judge dressed in drag.
For a subject worked and reworked so often in novels, motion pictures, and television, American Indians remain probably the least understood and most misunderstood Americans of us all.
There are three things in life which are real: God, human folly and laughter. Since the first two are beyond our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third.
If at times our actions seem to make life difficult for others, it is only because history has made life difficult for us all.
The religious foundations of America have been completely expurgated from our history textbooks.
Moral courage is more a rare commodity than bravery in a battle or great intelligence.
Sharing the holiday with other people, and feeling that you're giving of yourself, gets you past all the commercialism.
Lofty words cannot construct an alliance or maintain it; only concrete deeds can do that.
We protect nature not for nature's sake but for our own sake because it's the infrastructure of our communities.
Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a writer. Writers write. On you go.
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.
Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?
GE is the biggest polluter of the Hudson.. years ago they killed all the fish dumping millions of lbs. of pcb's into our waterways. Now let's make them pay for the cleanup.
In the event you bungle elevating your sons or daughters, I do not imagine regardless of what else you are doing nicely issues very considerably.
Real men stay faithful. They don't have time to look for other women because they're too busy looking for new ways to love their own.
The Supreme Court has said that America is a Christian nation. But to make such a statement today causes reporters, newsmen, and many politicians to go ballistic.
Unity in a Movement situation can be overrated. If you were the Establishment, which would you rather see coming in the door: one lion or five hundred mice?
Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
The Supreme Court must serve as an independent check on abuses by the executive branch and the protector of our liberties, not a cheerleader for an imperial presidency.
Nobody worries about Christ as long as he can be kept shut up in churches. He is quite safe inside. But there is always trouble if you try and let him out.
I hope for an America where no president, no public official, no individual will ever be deemed a greater or lesser American because of religious doubt - or religious belief.
Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future holds no hope.
