From the category archives:

Spar & Bernstein's Favorite Quotes

Act Today to Get the Dream Act Passed!

November 30, 2010

In early November, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) promised to bring up key immigration-related legislation before the end of the year. It now appears that the DREAM Act is poised for a potential vote during the current lame duck session of Congress.
Although Congress was in recess last week, the groundwork has been laid for [...]

Read the full article →

Act Before Immigration Fee’s Go Up on 11/23!!

November 12, 2010

Please remember that the USCIS will be increasing most fee’s related to immigration processing as of November 23, 2010. I reviewed the pricing changes and with a few exceptions, almost all of them are going up! When have you seen fee’s go down? Neither have I. So, like anything else these days, immigration processing fees [...]

Read the full article →

Who’s Defending Arizona’s Immigration Law?

November 1, 2010

As I have posted on this blog before, the Arizonia immigration law is bunk. Clearly, a state should never be in the business of setting up laws that are the domain of the federal government. Who would defend a law that clearly cannot be defended?
Answer: How about enough people to [...]

Read the full article →

Have You Heard About S. 3982?

October 8, 2010

Have you heard about the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2010 (S. 3932) by Senators Robert Menendez (D-NY) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT)? No? If you haven’t, you will. This recently introduced bill restarts the discussion and debate in this country about immigration reform. It gives us hope that perhaps after the [...]

Read the full article →

Immigration Quote of the Day: Cardinal Roger Mahony

August 17, 2010

“We should embrace our immigrant roots and recognize that newcomers to our land are not part of the problem, they are part of the solution.” – Cardinal Roger Mahony

Read the full article →

Immigration Quote of the Day: James Baldwin

July 12, 2010

“The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.”
- James Baldwin (1924-1987), African-American writer

Read the full article →

Immigration Quote of the Day: Jack Paar

June 29, 2010

“Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.”
- Jack Paar

Read the full article →

Spar & Bernstein’s Movie Quote of the Day: The Rainmaker

June 1, 2010

“Every lawyer, at least once in every case, feels himself crossing a line that he doesn’t really mean to cross… it just happens… And if you cross it enough times it disappears forever. And then you’re nothin’ but another lawyer joke. Just another shark in the dirty water.”
- Matt Damon’s character, novice personal injury [...]

Read the full article →

S&B’s Quote of the Day: William Frederick Halsey, Jr.

May 10, 2010

“There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.”
- William Frederick Halsey, Jr.

Read the full article →

Oprah’s Wisdom

April 22, 2010

“Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.” – Oprah Winfrey

Read the full article →

Inspiring Quotes to Start the Day

April 15, 2010

“Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.”
- Dalai Lama
*****
“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend [...]

Read the full article →

Law Quotes of the Day

April 13, 2010

“No man suffers injustice without learning, vaguely but surely, what justice is.”
- Isaac Rosenfeld
*****
“Somebody recently figured out that we have 35 million laws to enforce the 10 Commandments.”
- Attributed to both Bert Masterson and Earl Wilson
*****
“I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.”
- Keith Richards
*****
“Although the legal and ethical definitions [...]

Read the full article →

Inspiring Quotes to Start the Morning

April 7, 2010

“We cannot truly face life until we face the fact that it will be taken away from us.”
- Billy Graham
*****
“We don’t accomplish anything in this world alone… and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one’s life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that creates something.”
- Sandra [...]

Read the full article →

5 of Our Fave Quotes

April 5, 2010

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”
- Mahatma Gandhi
*****
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the”world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever does.”
- Margaret Mead
*****
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where [...]

Read the full article →

Spar & Bernstein’s Fave Quotes on Social Justice

March 30, 2010

“The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you can alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change the world.”
- James Baldwin
*****
“I wish to do something Great and Wonderful, but I must start by doing the little things like they were Great and Wonderful.”
- [...]

Read the full article →

5 Inspiring Quotes to Start the Week

March 29, 2010

“If you can dream it, you can do it.”
- Walt Disney
*****
“It’s never too late to become the person you might have been.”
- George Elliot
*****
“You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves you too full to embrace the present.”
- Jan Glidewell
*****
“For every failure, there’s an alternative course of action. [...]

Read the full article →

Inspiring Quotes of the Day

March 24, 2010

“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”
- Michael Jordan
*****
“Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.”
- Abraham Lincoln
*****
“The universe is [...]

Read the full article →

Quote of the Day: Stanley Kubrick

March 22, 2010

“The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with the indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.”
- Stanley Kubrick

Read the full article →

Great Anthony Robbins Quotes to Inspire Us Today

March 12, 2010

“You are now at a crossroads. This is your opportunity to make the most important decision you will ever make. Forget your past. Who are you now? Who have you decided you really are now? Don’t think about who you have been. Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision [...]

Read the full article →

S&B’s Inspirational Quotes to Start the Day

March 11, 2010

“Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”
- Langston Hughes
*****
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do.”
- Confucious
*****
“We can do anything we want, as long as we stick to it long enough.”
- Helen Keller
*****
“What if you have failed in [...]

Read the full article →