Alex Haley (1921–1992) African American biographer, screenwriter, and novelist
As quoted in My Soul Looks Back, 'Less I Forget : A Collection of Quotations (1993) by Dorothy Winbush Riley.
Source: " Bill Gates says Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's explanation for power outages is 'actually wrong https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bill-gates-texas-gov-greg-abbott-power-outage-claims-climate-change-002303596.html" (February 17, 2021)
Alex Haley (1921–1992) African American biographer, screenwriter, and novelist
As quoted in My Soul Looks Back, 'Less I Forget : A Collection of Quotations (1993) by Dorothy Winbush Riley.
“If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, then they can sure make something out of you.”
Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) African American boxer, philanthropist and activist
Variant: Go to College,
Stay in school,
If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread,
they can sure make something out of you.
“Make sure when you fall you land on your back if you can see you can get up.”
Les Brown (1945) American politician
Source: Live Your Dreams
“Cold winds are disagreeable, hot winds enervating, moist winds unhealthy.”
Vitruvius book De architectura
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book I, Chapter VI "The Directions of the Streets with Remarks on the Winds" Sec. 1
Mike Watt (1957) musician, songwriter
Statement on bicycling safety after an accident, on his blog " a hoot and a holler http://www.hootpage.com/hoot_news.html" (20 December 2003).
“You can deal with reality sooner, or later the reality will deal with you.”
John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
Cassandra Clare The Mortal Instruments
Alec to Clary, pg. 101
The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)