Jo Jordan Quotes

With my little band, I did everything they did with a big band. I made the blues jump.

That a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest.

As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of language.

Like running trying to live a good life has to hurt a little bit, or we're not running hard enough, not really trying.

In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

As I am a poet I express what I believe, and I fight against whatever I oppose, in poetry.

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify.

The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is comfort, per se.

Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important.

I think if you stop bad habits, and you stop long enough, you develop good habits.

The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.

No one hangs up the phone until the customer buys or dies.

Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.

And if there was one thing I'd finally figured out, it was that your mind is something you always CAN change.

If you are into synthesis it’s a must have app. I’ve been jamming all night!

We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.

We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.

The scariest monster in the world is human beings and what we are capable of, especially when we get together.

It's very uncomfortable to talk about race. It often devolves before it begins.

Never kiss a girl whose brothers have knife scars.

Revolution always unfolds inside an atmosphere of rising expectations.

(Yes teenage boys who are fine always cry on their mothers’ shoulders until they leave a snot trail.)

We have seen the evil of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst; let us try prohibition and see what this will do for us

André Weil always looked like that, not only when he talked about the devil.

My mother was the president of the PTA at every school I attended.

There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.

Nature is very un-American. Nature never hurries.

Teach him how you will, a pig will never play the flute.

Some kids do drugs. Some kids light stuff on fire. Me, I eat oats.

But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place.

Sad to hear of Paul Scholes retirement! One of the best midfielders to grace the Premiership! Idolised him for years! Legend.

I never intended to be a run-of-the-mill person.

In other times, I could stand here and give this kind of exposition on the beliefs of the Democratic Party and that would be enough. But today that is not enough. People want more.

There is an eternal conflict between the school-room and the bar-room. The school-room makes men, the bar-room destroys them.

If you had found the right candidate in 2000 or 2004, and you could have put that man or woman, given them ballot access in September of the election year, they could have won the election.

For me, I think being a conservative means you are focused on all four key principles: strong defense, lower taxes, less spending, and defending traditional American values.

I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.

When people get together, we are capable of the most beautiful, amazing things. But we are also capable of genocide.

Gratitude is thankfulness expressed in action.

What teenagers are ready to laugh at is the misery of other people.

Its a war zone. Terrible things happen.

Racism is within each and every one of us.

Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.

I always get what I want in the end. And I think I want...ornamental ironwork. For the windows of my bedchamber.

It is all too easy to draw conclusions and make sweeping judgments about millions of Muslim women based on fleeting television images. That is not right.

First things first; take care of what can be done now before worrying too long over what might never be.

I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.

When the honey's out of the comb, there's no putting it back.

The job description for a queen changes with the times.