Famous quotes containing the words successful, drop and/or kick:
“I think its unfair for people to try to make successful blacks feel guilty for not feeling guilty.... Were unique in that were not supposed to enjoy the things weve worked so hard for.”
—Patricia Grayson, African American administrator. As quoted in Time magazine, p. 59 (March 13, 1989)
“In order to cultivate yourself and to drop no lower than the level of the milieu in which you have landed, it is not enough to read Pickwick and memorize a monologue from Faust.... You need to work continually day and night, to read ceaselessly, to study, to exercise your will.... Each hour is precious.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (18601904)
“I have answered three questions, and that is enough,
Said his father; dont give yourself airs!
Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff?
Be off, or Ill kick you downstairs!”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (18321898)