American Journalist Quotes

I just think it's the world we live in and there is no real metric to measure us by because CNN is the only one that is still doing journalism.

In an effort to reclaim our humanity, let us find new motivation for living by opening our minds to broader concepts of spirituality.

Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love.

No man can feel himself alone
The while he bravely stands
Between the best friends ever known
His two good, honest hands.

Don't correct me, you don't have any rights over me." "What kind of life is this? So I sit at home, entirely dependent on this man, and then it turns out his heart was never with me. How is it possible to force someone to love me?

It appears to me that our sex is only discussed publicly in a derogatory manner. The respectable woman is doomed to anonymity.

We have a new class in this country: the deserving rich.... The deserving rich do nice things for each other. Comforting the unafflicted is something that comes naturally to them.

Roaming the world as a foreign correspondent for more than a decade, I was able to observe how a variety of vastly different nations organized themselves economically. The inescapable conclusion was that no politician anywhere on the planet has ever actually created a rupee's worth of prosperity.

When the women get the vote, we'll spend more money on the children.

Prejudice, the floating wreckage of chattel slavery, rises ever to the surface of the turbulent waters of a Nation's life, obstructing each best attempt toward a safe course to its highest citizenship.

Olivia Ward Bush-Banks

The Kingdom of God is plainly that state of temporal affairs which, by a proper distribution of labor, enables the entire human family to cultivate their best faculties. The Kingdom of God commences in this world, will progress in the next, and in all other worlds.

Trump obviously never meant to impose a wealth test on his administration, or he would have failed it himself. He is proof that a fortune isn't necessarily an obstacle to being a champion of an agenda of populist reform.

A wise woman once said to me that there are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these she said is roots, the other, wings.

One of the problems with NPR is that there is so much political correctness that if you've got a name that looks like it was made up by Rudyard Kipling, you've got a better chance of getting hired. I'm a white guy named Tony Snow, for heaven's sake. That's as white as it goes.

We are, in the end, a sum of our parts, and when the body fails, all the virtues we hold dear go with it.

Susannah Cahalan

If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva Braun on the Donahue show and Adolf Hitler on Meet the Press.

Ed Turner (television executive)

Maybe it's ALWAYS the end of the world. Maybe you're alive for a while, and then you realize you're going to die, and that's such an insane thing to comprehend, you look around for answers and the only answer is that the world must die with you.

Be awake! No man, or body of men have a claim upon your liberty, but yourselves.

William Cooper Nell

The era of cheap oil and natural gas is coming to a crashing end, with global oil production projected to peak in 2010 and North American natural gas extraction rates already in decline. These events will have enormous implications for America's petroleum-dependent food system

Richard Heinberg

Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.

Socially, I never belonged to any class, rich or poor. To the rich I was poor, and to the poor I was poor pretending to be like the rich.

And though I have done many shameful things, I am not ashamed of who I am. I am not ashamed of who I am because I know who I am. I have tried to rip myself open and expose everything inside - accepting my weaknesses and strengths - not trying to be anyone else. 'Cause that never works, does it?So my challenge is to be authentic. An I believe I am today. I believe I am.

Looking into it a bit, Jamie found that the model used by Wall Street to price LEAPs, the Black-Scholes option pricing model, made some strange assumptions.

It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and that sometimes the two are very close together.

The essence of all religion is to be willing to risk your life for a belief - not for survival.

Helen Foster Snow