Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jesse Jackson

The tallest tree in the history of African American journalism has fallen, but has fallen gracefully. The tree that stood tall for over 60 years and a tree that planted a forest, a tree with widespread limbs and full of fruit. He connected to Africa and African Americans. He shared the pain of Emmett Till, the development of Martin Luther King Jr., and was a source of information and inspiration. He was the number one black publisher for 60 years. His impact had been felt through the whole world of journalism.

Steve Jones

This is a process, not an event. It's not going to happen over night. It's clear that we as African American men are unique and only we can articulate what it's like to attend a private college. But all of us would also agree that it was worth it, that we are successful today because of it.

Milton Bradley

This is a special moment for baseball, a special moment for African Americans. Just like it is every time April 15 comes up. I think last year was really special because I was wearing the uniform that Jackie wore.

Eric Holder

While he was in the service, in the South and in Oklahoma, he was refused service at a couple of places where he was in uniform, and was told that African Americans, blacks, Negros, were not served. And in spite of that, I've never known a man who loved this country more than my father did.

Kgalema Motlanthe

I know exactly what I will do. I will go and work with the Congress of South African Students.

Thabo Mbeki

Throwing money at African governments is not the answer,

Trevor Immelman

Those guys are legends in South African sport and it is fantastic for me to have done something that they have done.

Rush Limbaugh

Take that bone out of your nose and call me back (to an African American female caller).

Kenneth Kaunda

Seven hundred and fifty billion dollars is the annual aggregate income of African Americans. That economic potential needs to be harnessed for Africa's development and to create expanded economic opportunities for African people worldwide.

Philip Hoffman

The movie is about knowing that somebody has lost his soul out there, somebody has destroyed a part of himself. ... The minute he saw Perry Smith, the outcome was inevitable that two men would die -- one literally and the other figuratively.

Charles Mathis

The sand and the dirt is destroying the church.

John Park

It was a nice getaway, just like a little cabin. A lot of my members are distraught because they made something for everybody and some yahoo goes in and destroyed it for everybody.

Elizabeth Pena

I figured, if I failed, I'd tried something that I hadn't tried before and if one movie was going to destroy my career than I didn't have much of a career to start with. I just went for it. God willing I wasn't over the top and didn't embarrass myself.

Peter Hain

Even though I was a (Chelsea) fan, a fanatic, you actually wanted to see him do it -- you clapped him as he destroyed your team.

Jonathan Jakubowicz

either we communicate with each other or we destroy each other. If we do not help that 80 percent of the population in poverty, nobody will live a human life.

Paolo Bacigalupi

I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is nothing done by the hands of man which sometime or other time does not destroy

William Douglas

We look to the heavens for help and uplift, but it is to the earth we are chained; it is from the earth that we must find our sustenance; it is on the earth that we must find solutions to the problems that promise to destroy all life here.

Bobby Clark

A tie on the road at Michigan State wasn't the worst result. It's not going to hurt us if we can take something out these three games.

Kip Carpenter

The starter is really hurting people. You're supposed to be down for 1 1/2, 2 seconds at the most. When you're down for 2 1/2, 3 seconds, it's a tough position. I tripped up and it just got my timing off.

Les Brown

Somebody's going to get hurt because of it,

Ron Jirsa

Once you solve something, the next thing you see might be tougher. The second half, when we didn't push it up the floor, that hurt us. You want to make them move. When they get back and it's 5-on-5, it's tougher.

Tommy Maddox

It was time to quit working on things and just go play. If we could stop hurting ourselves, we're going to be pretty tough.

Brandon Sanderson

[Omin] ...All things must progress, and progression is not always a steady incline. Sometimes we must fall, sometimes we will rise - some must be hurt while others have fortune, for that is the only way we can learn to rely on one another. As one is blessed, it is his privilege to help those whose lives are not as easy. Unity comes from strife, child." Page 193

Jamie Campbell Bower

As an actor and as a performer, I'm very much aware of the fact that my job is to change both physically and emotionally and that was what hurt the most - the fact that people were judging me based on nothing.

Carl Sandburg

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Carson McCullers

This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings. This music was her—the real plain her...This music did not take a long time or a short time. It did not have anything to do with time going by at all. She sat with her arms around her legs, biting her salty knee very hard. The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen... Now that it was over there was only her heart beating like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.

Fredi Gonzalez

Pratt wore his shirt on the plane home.

Mack Brown

I've been planning this one for 33 years and now I really don't know what to say.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Plants live; how much they feel and enjoy, who shall say?

Steve Harris

We're having this process stuffed down our throats. Nothing about this plan is acceptable.

Frans Ludeke

We have had to prepare plans for all eventualities.

Liaquat Baluch

The results are totally managed, planned and rigged.

Turhan Douglas

We were planning to win. We trained just like we would if we were going to the playoffs.

Dale Carnegie

An hour of planning can save you 10 hours of doing.

Rick Santorum

The dangers of carbon dioxide? Tell that to a plant, how dangerous carbon dioxide is,

Robert Reich

We don't have to sit by and watch our meritocracy be replaced by a permanent aristocracy, and our democracy be undermined by dynastic wealth.

Linda Scatena

You can replace the rings but you can't replace what they represent.

Theodore Olson

These two appointments, when they're completed, will replace 57 years of experience.

Don Helling

I've been saying all year that our strength is in the relays.

Jane Austen

They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.

Philip Vannatter

Are you saying you didn't make that statement?

Toby Hall

Electric. His stuff was electric. That was unbelievable. Even some of their lefties were saying they had no chance.

Toni Fletcher

Everyone was saying they can't get volunteers for anything and someone said they had a day to show what the town does.

Peter Ashkenaz

Pharmacists are saying there are still some bumps, but things are getting better.

Richie Benaud

If it was me, I probably wouldn't be saying anything.

Wazhma Mojaddidi

He's saying that she couldn't see the evidence, couldn't see he was guilty.

Gil Gerard

I have a superstition about saying too much about what I want to happen, just in case it all disappears, or someone else comes along and beats me to it.