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not allowed

«At times they don't like you to kick them and they feel you're not allowed to kick them.»
Author: Alan Shearer | Keywords: not allowed
«There can be no more ancient and traditional American value than ignorance. English-only speakers brought it with them to this country three centuries ago, and they quickly imposed it on the Africans-who were not allowed to learn to read and write-and on the Native Americans, who were simply not allowed.»
«To have a thing is little, if you're not allowed to show it, to know a thing, is nothing unless others know you know it»
Author: Charles Neaves | Keywords: not allowed
«I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to force me to practice what they do.»
Author: D. Dale Gulledge | Keywords: not allowed
«If you are not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there»
«For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for. She can watch him, as a child, play the games she was not allowed to play; she can invest in him her ideas, aspirations, ambitions, and values -- or whatever she has left of them; she can watch her son, who came from her flesh and whose life was sustained by her work and devotion, embody her in the world. So while the project of raising a boy is fraught with ambivalence and leads inevitably to bitterness, it is the only project that allows a woman to be -- to be through her son, to live through her son.»
«County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that's the problem. I don't know how to spell it and I'm not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I'll stop you when...Hello?»
«Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.»
«The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.»