Boxes Quote by Chirlane McCray Download Open image “Labels put people in boxes, and those boxes are shaped like coffins.” — Chirlane McCray ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Boxes Coffins Labels Like People Those
“When you put labels on someone, it's like sticking them in a box with no air holes until they slowly suffocate. People aren't just… — Sadie Allen Copy Share Image
Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people. — Martina Navratilova Copy Share Image
Labels serve a purpose. They help one be identified. And I want to be identified. — Eric Lewis Copy Share Image
It's what's on the record not what labels on it. You know, that's like getting a box of cornflakes and eating the cardboard. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
People like to think of you as a certain person, or a certain type of person, and they do love to give you a… — Clare Balding Copy Share Image
And the people in the houses All went to the University And they got put in boxes Little boxes all the same, Little boxes… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
The thing with labels is they're not for you, they're for other people. Like labels are just a word for other people to understand… — Shailene Woodley Copy Share Image
I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don't understand. — Adam Jones Copy Share Image
“Labels are just labels, just handles to let us grasp things, pick them up, turn them over in our hands.” — Jason McIntyre Copy Share Image
My life was very compartmentalized. I went to a school that was all white, and then I went home and to my black family. — Chirlane McCray Copy Share Image
Telling my story has not been easy for me. I've had to dredge up memories I would have rather forgotten. The lonely, anxiety-ridden months… — Chirlane McCray Copy Share Image
I had never had a deep sense of belonging anywhere. I always felt I was an outsider. — Chirlane McCray Copy Share Image
When you become first lady, it's like, 'O.K., now what do you do?' — Chirlane McCray Copy Share Image
I was a lifeguard, camp counselor, the president of the YMCA Leaders Corps. I also took piano lessons. I was a dancer. — Chirlane McCray Copy Share Image
We have to think about the state of women in a more holistic way going forward. We can't be segregated by class and race… — Chirlane McCray Copy Share Image
In the 1970s, I identified as a lesbian and wrote about it. In 1991, I met the love of my life, married him. — Chirlane McCray Copy Share Image
It's tough to be a mother. At any age. It's tough. It's a lot of work. — Chirlane McCray Copy Share Image
Black women do not have as many positive images in the media as we should. — Chirlane McCray Copy Share Image
The best way to marginalize the Muslim Brotherhood [in Egypt] is in the ballot box, not through arrests and killing people. — Kelly Ayotte Copy Share Image
When I step into the batters box. The fans, the noise, the cheers, they all disappear. For that moment, the world is just a… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
I separated the joints, the arm joints, the leg joints, and had to do two boilings. I think I used four boxes of Soilex… — Jeffrey Dahmer Copy Share Image
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He decided then that he would love her forever no matter what came to pass. It was not so much a matter of deciding… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
I think if you keep the box closed long enough you do kill the cat, actually. — John Green Copy Share Image
I have nothing but praise for the boy. He is easily the best player in the world. His contribution as a goal threat is… — Alex Ferguson Copy Share Image
The recurrent laryngeal nerve - which runs from the head to the voice box - goes all the way down into the chest, loops… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
3 people get stranded on a remote Island A Banker, a Daily Mail reader & an Asylum seeker All they have to eat is… — Christopher Brookmyre Copy Share Image
Unpleasant questions are being raised about Mother's Day. Is this day necessary? . . . Isn't it bad public policy? . . . No… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
I could party in a cardboard box with people who are funny and don't care. For me, it's really about who I surround myself… — Kesha Copy Share Image