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Ursula Burns Quotes

My mother was amazing. I guess, in our community, if you wanted to get by you had to work hard. So she cleaned offices. She did everything that you could imagine. We were really poor. But she would say, 'Where you are is not who you are.'

Ursula Burns

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businesswoman
Nationality: american
Birth: September 20, 1958

Topics

Work Mother Community Amazing You

Mobility will be one of the major beneficiaries of population growth in the world.

Joe Kaeser

Growth World Will Population Major

I wonder if novels work for women because they give us a safe place to talk about our ish.

Jennifer Weiner

Work Women Wonder Place Talk Safe

Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.

Andrew Cohen

Live Relationship Experience Mind Up

I've been asked to write an autobiography, and I've started it a couple of times, on different angles, and maybe one day I will, but you know what? There's time for that because I'd like to have the whole story.

John Saxon

Time Day Story You Know One Day

The more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear.

John Quincy Adams

Wisdom You More Laws Brighter Moses

When you've worked as hard as I have to form your identity, the last thing you want is to blur where you end and someone else begins.

Amanda de Cadenet

Identity End Blur Someone You Want

When people talk, they lay lines on each other, do a lot of role playing, sidestep, shilly-shally and engage in all manner of vagueness and innuendo. We do this and expect others to do it, yet at the same time we profess to long for the plain truth, for people to say what they mean, simple as that. Such hypocrisy is a human universal.

Steven Pinker

Truth Time Simple People Hypocrisy

On the morning, Daddy and I get up at six o'clock because Christmas trees must be bought in the dark. We walk to the other end of town, as the big harbour is just the right setting for buying a Christmas tree. We spend hours choosing, looking at every branch suspiciously. It's always cold.

Tove Jansson

Morning Tree Walk Looking Cold End

We are very near the end, but have not and will not lose our good cheer.

Robert Falcon Scott

Good End Lose Will Cheer Our

Reggae music isn't Jewish, but a lot of the ideas are.

Matisyahu

Music Ideas Jewish Reggae Lot

The Bible shows the clear statement of God's purposes concerning the earth, and man once made its prince. Its opening chapters show that it was intended for man's instruction.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

God Man Bible Earth Opening Clear

Scotland forms a crucial part of our Armed Forces which should not be jeopardised by rushed cuts or a rush to the exit from the U.K. Defence jobs are vital to the Scottish economy and yet independence puts thousands of jobs at risk.

Philip Hammond

Independence Risk Economy Exit Rush