Bernice L. McFadden quote: " 'Sugar, aint you ever had no good time?' she said with a bit of sadness in her voice. <br />'What you mean?' Sugar said,...<br />'Seems to me that I ain't never see you look up from whatever you were doing and just smile.'<br />'Just smile? Smile at what? At who?'<br />'Smile into the air, girl!' she said and waved her arm through the air....you better start, 'cause time is running and a life without good times ain't a life worth having."

I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gard...
GATES MCFADDEN

Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.
GATES MCFADDEN

I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient.
CYRA MCFADDEN

When I was a kid if I was unhappy, I'd stroke my dog. I was into bringing injured birds into the...
STEVE MCFADDEN

It's an absolute honor to be taking part in the pageant for the Diamond Jubilee. This is a once-...
STEVE MCFADDEN

Outside of the chair, the teapot is the most ubiquitous and important design element in the domestic...
DAVID MCFADDEN

I do see a lot of my kids, but sometimes I feel as though we have snatched moments. I turn up half w...
STEVE MCFADDEN

Just seeing your NFL equipment for the first time is amazing. It took me a couple of days to calm my...
BRYANT MCFADDEN

You can't run down the field on a punt team without running into a guy from down there, man. We're e...
BRYANT MCFADDEN

The guys in this locker room have done a great job of making us feel like part of the team. This rea...
BRYANT MCFADDEN

Hey, could I be the first from McArthur? We've got to look that up.
BRYANT MCFADDEN

Me and Wayne were battling for the ball. He was juggling it. I kept trying to fight, fight. I was fa...
BRYANT MCFADDEN

What we're playing here is a cat-and-mouse game. Are we going to have two factions sitting here, try...
BRIAN MCFADDEN

I guarantee you're about to blow the deal of the century. You're not going to get a property like th...
BRIAN MCFADDEN

I think you'll know Nortel as more a software company than a hardware company,
BRIAN MCFADDEN

We are increasingly a software company ... we've kind of hit a tipping point.
BRIAN MCFADDEN

You might see some [technologies] start to emerge as early as a year from now as a direct result of ...
BRIAN MCFADDEN

We basically want to provide the Internet with the kind of reliability people are accustomed to seei...
BRIAN MCFADDEN

We have a building boom going on here that is absolutely unprecedented. It just doesn't want to stop...
BRIAN MCFADDEN

bed tax is for tourism, it's not just another slush fund.
BRIAN MCFADDEN

It would be helpful to have a similar type of mission go to an asteroid and compare the results, ......
LUCY MCFADDEN

The human voice: mysterious, spontaneous, primal. For me, the human voice is the vessel on which all...
CLARON MCFADDEN

You can't have people talking or dogs barking in the background.
BETH MCFADDEN

It's an option that appeals to people who either have transportation issues or live in a remote plac...
BETH MCFADDEN

We moved the ball, but we shot ourselves in the foot with a turnover or a missed assignment. Were st...
RICH MCFADDEN

Somebody's gonna win; somebody's gonna lose. The thing is, are you there to fight at the battle? Som...
BARRY MCFADDEN

We had our chances, but we didn't take advantage of them. The kids played hard, but we missed too ma...
BARRY MCFADDEN

We're trying to get our bench mentally prepared and also get all these other guys playing time. We d...
BARRY MCFADDEN

That first half, Latta did a good job. We just weren't taking the right shots. The shots were open. ...
BARRY MCFADDEN

If companies are facing the competitive pressures, and not expanding, these are the things we can he...
DAVID MCFADDEN

When they see that water running over the falls, they're looking at their life blood going to the oc...
DAN MCFADDEN

Being named a great school at a great price means that we offer both high-quality academic programs ...
DAVID MCFADDEN

Typically when a drug or formulation goes OTC you see rise in revenues, with the potential for a ris...
DAN MCFADDEN

We see both the value and the need and want to offer Manchester as a site for those students, if we ...
DAVID MCFADDEN

I don't like taking pain medicine, so I was willing to try anything.
BILL MCFADDEN

You can't even be in the game until you have a pre-approval letter.
BILL MCFADDEN

You start getting desperate. For us, frustration set in a little early.
BILL MCFADDEN

We didn't realize we had no power.
BILL MCFADDEN

I wanted to be a comedian because I was heavy and I knew a lot of fat comics.
BRYAN MCFADDEN

When I was young, I overheard a Brit say Canada wasn't a real country because it doesn't hav...
DAVID MCFADDEN

If you're a kid at a secondary comprehensive in North London as I was in the seventies, prancing...
STEVE MCFADDEN

It's too early to kind of distinguish one style of music for the band,
BRYAN MCFADDEN

Let me tell you a secret: every time self-doubt crawls in to your skull, grab that mother by the thr...
TONY MCFADDEN

I've always loved acting, even from when I was a child. But when I got on stage, I realised I co...
CLARON MCFADDEN

In my own creations, the earliest influence came from the ancient civilisations of Egypt, China, Afr...
MARY MCFADDEN

Would we want to do the same thing to a different type of comet? I don't want to answer that questio...
LUCY MCFADDEN

It's the lack of communication of the marathon that causes the problems.
RICH MCFADDEN

That's what our problem is. We haven't had anyone step up and take the initiative to assume the resp...
DAN MCFADDEN

We know there are times when the power company needs more power and times they don't. They know they...
DAN MCFADDEN

They immediately approached the bedside. They responded quickly and prevented further harm to the pa...
DAN MCFADDEN

We're the eighth-place team coming in.
DEAN MCFADDEN

We'd sure like to be able to knock them off in our gym.
DEAN MCFADDEN

We went down there and we couldn't buy a bucket, and they couldn't miss a bucket.
DEAN MCFADDEN

We came out and had a 23-10 lead, and we took the lead into the half. They came out and got within o...
DEAN MCFADDEN

We moved the ball better in that game than we have in a while. It's a good road win.
DEAN MCFADDEN

I'd love it if they would. Everyone has a green light, just shoot it.
DEAN MCFADDEN

We still have two or three players who play well. If we have five or six players offensively who pla...
DEAN MCFADDEN

We kept ourselves in the game. We made the game entertaining.
DEAN MCFADDEN

I don't know much about them. We've played them before (in previous seasons), and we've beaten them....
DOMINIK MCFADDEN

That was a key. (Recently), I've learned how to block shots.
DOMINIK MCFADDEN

Coach saw potential in me, and he knows I can play basketball. I've been able to show my talent sinc...
DOMINIK MCFADDEN

Everything that a parent wants is what I wanted. I just want her to be happy... This isn't a victory...
DEBORAH MCFADDEN

It's all over the place. I knew it was significant, but I didn't know it was this big.
DEBORAH MCFADDEN

She never started this to hurt her team or her team members.
DEBORAH MCFADDEN

She said because I want to be with my friends.
DEBORAH MCFADDEN

But that's not what it was about, nor was it ever.
DEBORAH MCFADDEN

But it was never about that. It was never about competing with people with legs. It was about being ...
DEBORAH MCFADDEN

The transition beds are expected to make some difference.
ELAINE MCFADDEN

This is higher than normal and this is a busy time. It's a big challenge for us.
ELAINE MCFADDEN

Waiting lists are growing and we hope adding a new scanner will make a difference.
ELAINE MCFADDEN

The waiting lists are not acceptable. We would like to give better access.
ELAINE MCFADDEN

We will be using the winter to design the project and hope to begin site work next spring.
ELAINE MCFADDEN

Everything is on track. We are actually pleased with the progress.
ELAINE MCFADDEN

"I wanted to be a comedian because I was heavy and I knew a lot of fat comics."
BRYAN MCFADDEN

I try to block it out of my mind. I have not been thinking about it, just, you know, sitting up ther...
CYNTHIA MCFADDEN

What does it imply?
CYNTHIA MCFADDEN

We have chaos in the street. We have people who are desperate. They are hungry, they haven't slept, ...
CYNTHIA MCFADDEN

It doesnt get much realer than this,
CYNTHIA MCFADDEN

It will be much easier for consumers to get the product. We're very excited about it.
DAN MCFADDEN

Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness ...
GATES MCFADDEN

When I was young, it was very exciting to have a thought that we can change the world if we all coll...
GATES MCFADDEN

I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardenin...
GATES MCFADDEN

I think the public does benefit from it. It serves the public. We don't look at it as public service...
GLENN MCFADDEN

That would probably mean that our services are growing, so the city's revenues are growing.
GLENN MCFADDEN

I'm aware of the petition. I feel certain that we have served our customers in a way we are very pro...
GLENN MCFADDEN

The Vikings could have been saved if they had borrowed survival strategies from the Inuit, but the o...
JOHNJOE MCFADDEN

I respect Terry because he was my manager and I enjoyed working with him. I know that the comments w...
JAMES MCFADDEN

We were embarrassed last season but I don't think we were embarrassed tonight .
JAMES MCFADDEN

I think there will be not a step missed with the county contract.
IAN MCFADDEN

For me, it was surprising. Which is not to say I knew some people had some concerns, but I was surpr...
IAN MCFADDEN

We have no comment at this time, until we inform our members of the action of the e-board on Tuesday...
IAN MCFADDEN

Being named a great school at a great price means that we offer both high-quality academic programs ...
DAVID MCFADDEN

I'm terribly excited. We're all jumping up and down. I'm pleased that NASA hasn't given up on scienc...
LUCY MCFADDEN

When we planned our experiment, we estimated how long it would take for the dust to fall back onto t...
LUCY MCFADDEN

Ceres is an embryonic planet, ... Gravitational perturbations from Jupiter billions of years ago pre...
LUCY MCFADDEN

There's something that's keeping it from collapsing on itself.
LUCY MCFADDEN

But it was too round,
LUCY MCFADDEN

The weekend they came through was the same weekend the newspaper had the story about the proposed sc...
LAURA MCFADDEN

We've really narrowed our search to a small area to make sure they're going to be in the Memorial sc...
LAURA MCFADDEN

(The New York City Fire Department is) going to have a lot of explaining to do. These issues have no...
MAUREEN MCFADDEN

What you saw on TV, that was Dick.
MAUREEN MCFADDEN

Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a ...
BERNICE WEISSBOURD

But however the forms of family life have changed and the number expanded, the role of the family ha...
BERNICE WEISSBOURD

Because it's not only that a child is inseparable from the family in which he lives, but that the li...
BERNICE WEISSBOURD

Awareness has changed so that every act for children, every piece of legislation recognizes that chi...
BERNICE WEISSBOURD

Sex prejudice is so ingrained in our society that many who practice it are simply unaware that they ...
BERNICE SANDLER

She knocked on doors, helped raise funds and did whatever needed to be done to make sure the center ...
BERNICE KING

She's doing pretty good. She's making one step at a time in this process.
BERNICE KING

[A week ago, King was taken to Piedmont when her daughter Yolanda King noticed she had stopped speak...
BERNICE KING

The old has passed away. There is a new order that is emerging.
BERNICE KING

She was basically resting. She would come in and out of her rest, open her eyes, look around and go ...
BERNICE KING

Prior to my mother's stroke, Martin and I had a conversation with her. She felt at some point, [the ...
BERNICE KING

There have been conversations with Dexter. We've had a lot of meetings. But it is difficult to work ...
BERNICE KING

She's not paralyzed. The right side is just weak.
BERNICE KING

As we move into the 21st century, it's going to be incumbent upon all of us to realize that while Ma...
BERNICE KING

There were a lot of home runs.
BERNICE KANNER

The ads aren't dull. But they're much less in-your-face.
BERNICE KANNER

I think the wardrobe malfunction will have changed this year's ads significantly. The pendulum has s...
BERNICE KANNER

I think about that a lot. How sweet she was -- she was very dear.
BERNICE JOHNSON

The awful part of how they died is always a part of our thinking. We have a lot of good memories of ...
BERNICE JOHNSON

Ann was killed in 1985 -- it was 1987 before we could do anything other than just existing.
BERNICE JOHNSON

The answer I've never had is why they were killed. There was no reason for them to be killed.
BERNICE JOHNSON

They named her Erika. That was hard, to say Erika.
BERNICE JOHNSON

At first we thought we were doing it to help others. But we found out we were doing it for ourselves...
BERNICE JOHNSON

It was very expensive to go there.
BERNICE JAMISON

She said her heart had been broken into 10,000 little pieces. She said she loved me like a mother. W...
BERNICE JAMISON

She found out he was two-timing on her. She told me some time ago she was going to kill him. I wasn'...
BERNICE JAMISON

We get maybe 400-500 letters and e-mails a year from young people who tell us how going to their sch...
BERNICE CARNEGIE

He also wanted to teach those kids good sportsmanship and good citizenship. And it's something he's ...
BERNICE CARNEGIE

He wanted those kids to play together and work hard together.
BERNICE CARNEGIE

My father would leave home for seven or eight months of the year trying to pursue his hockey career....
BERNICE CARNEGIE

It is all political and high political involvement is in this. This was all well planned out and the...
BERNICE SMITH

He told me that they sent threatening messages to him, but he continued to tell me that he was born ...
BERNICE SMITH

I used to tell he be careful, come off of politics, but he used to tell me he was born to fight for ...
BERNICE SMITH

He was a very nice child, family-oriented but he got into this politics and this turned his life aro...
BERNICE SMITH

My son was preparing for this, he told us that people were after his life, but yet he was not prepar...
BERNICE SMITH

The marchers were trying to make a statement, but some people wouldn't let their minds get bogged do...
BERNICE SIMS

Many people couldn't read and write. That was the catch.
BERNICE SIMS

The world is watching and will not tolerate backsliding and bickering that costs lives.
BERNICE ROMERO

Again and again the rich countries procrastinate and delay. They must do the debt deal this weekend.
BERNICE ROMERO

That is the first big building on that block of Pine Street that has a potential of being renovated....
BERNICE LINTON

That is truly a bed-and-breakfast. People who are looking for a b-and-b are looking for a historic h...
BERNICE LINTON

After the holidays, I am going to try to get a status of everything and what the plans are. I know a...
BERNICE LINTON

My mother has a very strong determination to succeed. She looked forward to therapy and was full of ...
BERNICE KING

My mother has a very strong determination to succeed, ... She looked forward to therapy and was full...
BERNICE KING

They're buying the booze. They're buying the condoms. They're even buying the guns.
BERNICE KANNER

It's not in the soprano voice that she has. But it's in a voice that's good to hear.
BERNICE KING

Awareness has changed so that every act for children, every piece of legislation recognizes that chi...
BERNICE WEISSBOURD

Because it's not only that a child is inseparable from the family in which he lives, but that th...
BERNICE WEISSBOURD

You don't need to be Catholic to be Catholic anymore. If you dissent, you don't get out. Martin Luth...
JAMES P. MCFADDEN

Customs is looking into it.
DETECTIVE MICHAEL MCFADDEN

If he won, he won. If he didn't, he didn't. He wasn't playing with his money.
DETECTIVE MICHAEL MCFADDEN

When I went to the Maine State Lottery Commission as part of my investigation, they knew Mr. Dyer by...
DETECTIVE MICHAEL MCFADDEN

I suspect they may have been sold on eBay, and we're following up on that.
DETECTIVE MICHAEL MCFADDEN

We're going to have to look very seriously at what we're doing right or wrong because we jus...
EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON

When you have this many losses, you don't have a following.
EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON

Our first phase was inviting all the women Ambassadors who were here from other countries and trying...
EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON

Right after 9/11 there was a magazine with a cover of kids, mostly 12-14 year-olds, who were being t...
EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON

This was the first time a woman in Dallas had won public office of any kind - even women questioned ...
EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON

Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn't have the diversity it has now.
EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON

As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare...
EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON

We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON

It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.
EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON

I'm not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing.
EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON

I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minori...
EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON

I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.
EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON

There is not an issue that a woman cannot bring a perspective to.
EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON

I said we needed to organize women around the world to push peace.
EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON

Within a month I announced I was going to start this initiative: A World of Women for World Peace.
EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON

Well, I happen to believe all business is female business.
EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON

We can't go all over the world killing people because we disagree with them.
EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON

During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the ...
EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON

There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than ...
EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you ar...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.
EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON

A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict...
BERNICE FITZ-GIBBON

All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON

If every moment is sacred, and If you are amazed and in awe most of the time when you find yourself ...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female ...
EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON

I was at the Smithsonian for twenty years, and I'm still at the Smithsonian as a curator emeritus, a...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave sc...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

I started graduate school in 1971, I started working at the Smithsonian in the festival in 1972. I w...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance.
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

I just don't think one person has that much to contribute to any subject.
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who ha...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing researc...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the comm...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

As the years of work passed at the Smithsonian as a scholar, I realized that Howard had trained me w...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs.
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you a...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences,...
EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON

I was at the Smithsonian for twenty years, and I'm still at the Smithsonian as a curator emeritu...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.
BERNICE FITZ-GIBBON

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth
BERNICE FITZ-GIBBON

Teenagers travel in droves, packs, swarms. To the librarian, they're a gaggle of geese. To the cook,...
BERNICE FITZ-GIBBON

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and le...
BERNICE FITZ-GIBBON

Today whenever women gather together it is not necessarily nurturing. It is coalition building. An...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

I learned that if you bring black people together, you bring them together with a song. To this day,...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail . ....
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

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