Pary Quotes

We must hold leaders accountable to the people.

One must judge the past by the present to understand the future.

I was born 50 years after slavery, in 1913.

I was allowed to read.

My mother, who was a teacher,

taught me when I was a very young child.

The first school I attended was a small building

that went from first to sixth grade.

There was one teacher for all of the students.

There could be anywhere from 50 to 60 students of all different ages.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

I was lucky that I met

the right mentors

and teachers at

the right moment.

I have a reputation to uphold.

Every day is a chance to reinvent yourself.

To be good is noble;

but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

When at last we are sure,

You've been properly pilled,

Then a few paper forms,

Must be properly filled.

So that you and your heirs,

May be properly billed.

The road to success is paved with mistakes,

failures, and broken strings.

You own everything that happened to you.

Tell your stories.

If people wanted you to write warmly about them,

they should have behaved better.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

I told my dentist my teeth are going yellow.

he told me to wear a brown tie.

Art is never finished,

only abandoned.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

Human decency is not derived from religion.

It precedes it.

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

If you want to reach your goals and dreams,

you cannot do it without discipline.

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to

make anything out of my early life.

Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world.