Quotes About Impact

When you're gone would you rather have your gravestone say, 'He never missed a meeting.' Or one that said, 'He was a great father.'

I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.

My father was an exceptionally strong influence on me.

Yes, of course my father harmed and caused a lot of damage but both stories are true. He did things to help and destroy Colombia, both are true.

When I was 3, my father stopped coming home.

My father wasn't the best role model to me.

My father saw two black men lynched on his street in Cartersville, as a child. And I think seeing two black businessmen - not vagrants - hanging from trees as a child was traumatic for him.

My father's body lies in a stone tomb high on a hill. People walk by, pause, think their own thoughts about him and move on, back to their own lives. I can never move on. He is everywhere.

The idea of public service was instilled in me by watching my father, who shared that he was far more fulfilled in his public service than by his former lucrative corporate jobs.

Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me.

My father left me with a clear sense that the media was something different.

Children of those who have been incarcerated are five times more likely to go to prison than children of parents who have never been incarcerated. The sins of the father visiting the child.

According to most studies on the subject, boys who grow up without fathers grow up at a disadvantage.

Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.

Words are the most powerful thing in the universe... Words are containers. They contain faith, or fear, and they produce after their kind.

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.

The use of force, including beatings, undoubtedly has brought about the impact we wanted - strengthening the [occupied] population's fear of the Israeli Defense Forces.

Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

In every generation, the world is changed by a few people, who stand for something, do not fear unpopularity and dare to make a difference.

What I fear is not being forgotten after my death, but, rather, not being enough forgotten. As we were saying, it is not our books that survive, but our poor lives that linger in the histories.

I'm gonna make sure you talk about me, and your grandkids and kids after that gonna know about me...your great grandkids will say "wow, wasn't that a bizarre individual?"

There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas a book explodes a thousand times.