Famous quotes containing the words mother, champion and/or chase:
“My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school: So? Did you learn anything today? But not my mother. Izzy, she would say, did you ask a good question today? That differenceasking good questionsmade me become a scientist.”
—Isidor Isaac Rabi (20th century)
“But now Miss America, Worlds champion woman, you take your promenading self down into the cobalt blue waters of the Caribbean and see what happens. You meet a lot of darkish men who make vociferous love to you, but otherwise pay you no mid.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (18911960)
“Groot: Now wait a minute, Quo. You really aint gonna take a mans only set of teeth, are ya?
Quo: Uh huh.
Groot: Yeah, but I gotta use em for eatin.
Quo: Come grub you get em.
Groot: Whad ya gonna do with em?
Quo: My name now Two-Jaw Quo.”
—Borden Chase [Frank Fowler] (19001971)