The most memorable quotes in the Times Free Press for May 19-24.
“I was thinking any minute this may be the last time I talk to her.”
— Local resident Linda Sparks, on the phone conversation she held with her daughter, Stacie, as a massive tornado bore down on Stacie’s home in Moore, Okla.
“The church is the sleeping giant.”
— Lurone Jennings, the newly appointed administrator of the city’s Department of Youth and Family Development, telling mothers concerned about the pending closure of Head Start’s North Chattanooga site to seek help from churches