"I stand on the shoulders of countless people,……" — Sonia Sotomayor
"I stand on the shoulders of countless people, yet there is one extraordinary person who is my life aspiration. That person is my mother, Celina Sotomayor."
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121 Quotes by Sonia Sotomayor
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Recalling the aftermath of her father's death from alcoholism at age 42, this memoirist reminisces: I couldn't deny that our…
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I don't view prosecutors and attorneys as natural enemies. ... Though their roles are oppositional, the two simply have different…
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If the issue is letting the states experiment and letting the society have more time to figure out its direction,…
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So they can create a class they don't like-here, homosexuals-or a class that they consider is suspect in the marriage…
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I was fifteen years old when I understood how it is that things break down: people can't imagine someone else's…
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The dynamism of any diverse community depends not only on the diversity itself but on promoting a sense of belonging…
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The challenges I have faced—among them material poverty, chronic illness, and being raised by a single mother—are not uncommon, but…
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I have come to believe that in order to thrive, a child must have at least one adult in her…
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Sometimes, even if there was no useful advice to give, I saw that listening still helped.
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Looking out at that crowd, I imagined those who had not yet arrived, minority students who, in years to come,…
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I would warn any minority student today against the temptations of self-segregation: take support and comfort from your own group…
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When I call myself an affirmative action baby, I'm talking about the essence of what affirmative action was when it…
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More Aspiration Quotes
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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by…
— Marcus Aurelius
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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex…
— Sri Aurobindo
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To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite,…
— Charles Baudelaire
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The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality.
— Theodor Adorno
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Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them…
— Allan Bloom
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Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything…
— Victor Borge
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In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings…
— Lakhdar Brahimi
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Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
— Robert Browning
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Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up…
— Louisa May Alcott
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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
— William Ellery Channing
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You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.
— James Allen
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To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.
— James Allen
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