Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jesse Moore

Back in 1957, African American teachers were a dime a dozen.

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.

Joyce Banda

It's heavy, but I am able to carry it. Why? Because I'm an African woman. An African woman carries heavy loads anyway. That's how we are trained; we are brought up that nothing is unbearable. I use that now, positively. I use that now to have the thick skin that I have, and not fear, and move forward, and push; and push forward.

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,

Shyam Saran

We will work with our African friends to come out with a common document. By the end of this year, we should move ahead on the crucial issue of UN Security Council reforms,

Brian Quinn

The business must be based on the success of our football team,

William Frey

Back 30 or 40 years ago when people thought about where they'd move it was based on jobs. Now housing is as much of a factor.

Jason Mraz

A rescue mission doesn't involve going in and just taking a child and leaving. You can't just choose any child at random. Every kid has a case that is based on that child's original family. So, we made it over to a village, found the child; we were interacting with the child.

Carolyn Johnson

The students are selected based on recommendations that come from their instructors and who have demonstrated a record of high achievement.

Joe Case

Rates are based on computer modeling that predicts future risk, not about recouping past losses.

Diane Siri

The Santa Cruz County Office of Education, in partnership with the Local Childcare Planning Council and First 5 Santa Cruz County, is developing a model plan for a voluntary preschool system that would create opportunity for every 4-year-old in Santa Cruz County. This vision is based on the understanding that quality preschool programs are the foundation for success in school and, therefore, in life.

Alexandra Sanders

It was very hard, but we could not convict her of manslaughter in the other five cases based on the evidence we had.

Curtis Withers

It was tough losing games we should have won, based on execution and rebounding. It was the small things that good teams should do.

Jim Mastro

These rules are there for schools like Nevada. We don't have the budget. We rent compact cars. We do everything as cost effective as possible. If a kid is making his decision based on whether I pull up in a Cadillac or a compact car, we don't want them here.

Valerie Hudson

Purchasing a suite at Point Grace means not only owning a piece of Caribbean paradise, but also owners have the opportunity to be a part of an established property with high-levels of service.

Gary Weiss

Kochi, formerly called Cochin, is a former European settlement with a large Christian population and a seafaring heritage. It is a town of enormous charm that reminds some visitors of the Caribbean more than India.

Michael W. Smith

If you can go deep the whole Caribbean is poorly known. Going deeper is a world of surprises.

Bobby Burton

You're talking about 35 million households who watched the Rose Bowl. That was putting the Longhorns front and center in a lot of future recruits.

Bob Kelley

The only way it can identify where you are is if it dials a 911 center with the location-based identifier.

Stephen Sommers

There are four movies that got me into wanting to make movies: Journey to the Center of the Earth, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Swiss Family Robinson, and Jason and the Argonauts. Those are the movies that took me to different places when I was a kid. I fell in love with movies by watching those movies.

Glynn Turman

Seems like everybody has seen 'Cooley High.' That's what put me on the map. Garrett Morris and I go way back, even before the movie. Great guy. We've done theater and stage plays together, Lincoln Center and all kinds of things.

Liz Boyd

We're struggling because Michigan is the center of manufacturing in the country, and manufacturing is in crisis.

John Dick

We will open the detention center and see how many prisoners we receive from the Tribal Court before we decide whether to take contract inmates from other areas.

Margaret Gillett

There's nothing that looks or feels like an institution. We are a recreation center. We're not a nursing home, a rehabilitation center or a hospital.

Zahir Azimi

The explosion which occurred at the parking lot of a military training center here at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday claimed the lives of nine and injured 36 others.

Alice Wonderland

What if I should fall right through the center of the earth... oh, and come out the other side, where people walk upside down.

John Galsworthy

As for the law--it catered for a human nature of which it took a naturally low view.

Tom Mann

Property can be replaced ! Human life, never.

Edward Hirsch

Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you write for other human beings.

Auguste Comte

Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.

Arthur Miller

Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise.

Jim Fowler

I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings.

Anton Chekhov

What must human beings be, to destroy what they can never create?

Dean Koontz

The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.

Coco Chanel

One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods.

Lorraine Corriveau

Rabbits make wonderful pets, but they are a 10-year commitment. Like any other pet, they require attention.

W. G. Sebald

We learn from history as much as a rabbit learns from an experiment that's performed upon it.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Slavery is malignantly aristocratic.

Abraham Lincoln

When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my life.

Vernon Howard

We can become slaves to things we don't understand

Oscar Wilde

Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realized by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.

Oscar Wilde

The worst slave owners were those who were kind to their slaves

Jesse Jackson

If the states had to vote on slavery, we would have lost the vote.

Robert Dale Owen

We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.

Whoopi Goldberg

Should I be worried about being a slave and being returned to slavery? Because certain things happened in the Constitution that had to change.

Mahatma Gandhi

A slave-holder cannot hold a slave without putting himself or his deputy in the cage for holding the slave.

Brenda Jones

Every time hes supposed to be here, hes showed up,

John Pike

We're supposed to be in winter, but it doesn't look like any winter weather is coming.

Dwight Howard

Man, we're supposed to get wins like that, ... That's a tough loss.

Michael Gartenberg

It does what it's supposed to do, and it does it well.

Roy Hall

I think for us it would be more satisfaction than any other year if we won the title. We are not supposed to win and that is what makes it more exciting.

Manny Acta

I think we can play a lot better. I think we could have scored at least 12 runs. We didn't do the things we were supposed to do.

Kenny Rogers

You want to do what you're supposed to do here. But it's a long year.

Daniel Jones

It just got a little out of hand. Like, it wasn't the way it was supposed to be, and first I wanted you to know that I'm trying to do something about it.

Francine Prose

I think of myself as someone with a kind of Tourette's. I cannot help saying the thing you're not supposed to say.

Boris Spassky

We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.

Andrzej Wajda

It was progressively more difficult to find work in the theatre, as well.

Andrei Tarkovsky

The film [Stalker] needs to be slower and duller at the start so that the viewers who walked into the wrong theatre have time to leave before the main action starts.

Syd Barrett

In the future, bands are going to have to offer more than a pop show. They are going to have to an offer a well presented theatre show

Victor Garber

You can only do so much theatre.

Victor Hugo

Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.

Shaun Sipos

I have a theory... Theatre actors are better at auditions than film actors.

John Patrick Shanley

Theatre is the safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done.

Max Irons

As an actor, variety is the spice of life. I love theatre... it's what I enjoy the most. But a bit of TV, a bit of film, a bit of stage - what more could you ask for?

Kristin Baker

I've matured. I think I work better with the team.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Amanda Hale

I've come to realise I work so much better when I'm going by instinct.

Luis Castillo

This is terrible. Very disappointing. I've got to get back out there. There's so many things I have to work on.

Bryson Sumlin

That's not in the playbook, ... That's just excitement. Everything worked as clockwork.

Jane Fonda

The harder you work out, the more you should stretch.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.

Eric Maskin

The market doesn't work very well when it comes to public goods.

Charles Kettering

There has never been any 30-hour week for men who had anything to do.

Anita Brookner

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

David Cronenberg

All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true.

Thornton Wilder

He regarded love as a sort of cruel malady through which the elect are required to pass in their late youth and from which they emerge, pale and wrung, but ready for the business of living.

Thomas Paine

Youth is the seed time of good habits, as well in nations as in individuals.

Victor Hugo

Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself.

Victor Borge

In my youth, I wanted to be a great pantomimist -- but I found I had nothing to say.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

To be young is delightful; to be old is comfortable.

Mason Cooley

The young have stolen our youthfulness, and flaunt it without shame.

Mason Cooley

The young are just as opinionated as the old, but have more exciting things to do than sit around airing their opinions all day.