Famous Quotes

"The courts cannot garnish a father's salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat."

June Jordan on Car

More quotes about Car

• "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG."

  Bill Gates on Car

• "There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace."

  Richard Pryor on Car

• "Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments."

  Erma Bombeck on Car

• "I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone."

  Steven Wright on Car

• "I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving."

  Steven Wright on Car

More quotes by June Jordan

• "That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes."

• "There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth."

• "But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966."

• "Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth."

• "The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think."