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.

Bill Bradley

You have said that I am going to destroy Medicaid without saying what I plan to replace it with. (Your assertions) that my plan would hurt African Americans and Latinos have offended me,

Rush Limbaugh

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

Mark Donahue

I think the honor should be bestowed on those who are deserving of the honor. I don't think that it the case in this situation.

Francis Bradley

I am glad to think my work has been of use to anyone. But that it deserves the time & trouble involved in an elaborate study I find difficult to believe. In other words the same pains bestowed on one of the well-known masters in the subject would in my opinion be better rewarded.

Bible Bible

Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

Mollie Mayfield

After a week, we had a lot of black marks from track shoes on them. It causes an abrasion that slows down the surface, so our varsity team is not playing on as fast of courts as they may encounter.

Joe Brancato

The upper part of the Clarion River was pretty polluted about 15 years ago. It has since been cleaned up and now there's a black fly problem.

Aziz Ansari

Do you realize how much better the world would be if we all just treated each other the same way black dudes treat magicians?

Ed Smith

Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind of job that was useful to the community.

Brian Knutson

Brain imaging gives us the hope of opening up the black box.

Merle Black

Blacks have been migrating into the South in the last decade or so. There are more jobs here. After the 60's, and civil rights, this is where the job growth has been. Because of the lack of unionization, industries have moved back to the South.

Ed Renwick

Blacks got used to winning, and whites got used to losing. Now with all of this upheaval, some blacks think that maybe they're not going to win, and some whites think they're going to win.

John Milton

Black it stood as night, / Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, / And shook a dreadful dart.

Leatrice Eiseman

Black is what it is . Black is always going to be a constant. It's a classic.

Justin Timberlake

I was raised in a very humble environment, and I was always taught to be humble to the things that are happening in my life because they're blessings. They're blessings in every way. Whether you're able to help someone get through a tough time in their life through your music or through comedy, or whatever it is, you're just a channel.

Thomas Otway

Children blessings seem, but torments are;/ When young, our folly, and when old our fear.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

The people who misuse the Sabbath lose the blessings of spiritual food and growth promised to those who keep this commandment.

David Harcharik

Avian flu should not be considered a human health issue, but a human- and animal-health issue.

Petro Poroshenko

I understand that my presence in the position ... could be considered possible pressure on the investigation (into the corruption allegations).

Dave Gould

They are an icon of the '50s, ... It was considered a friendly, comfortable American sports car,

Steve Terry

This is a significant trophy trout fishery, there's a number of trout, 10 pound plus, which is considered trophy size in New Zealand so it's quite significant.

Scott Carney

This is probably the first time I have considered it.

Patty Murray

All are considered money and all goes toward the grant,

Gavin Graham

You're still paying cold, hard cash, but because the product is considered better, it's counted as a price-cut.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Every era has its own list of ingredients that are considered exotic and then, 15 years later, they're not.

Douglas Alexander

Newspapers can make their own judgment in terms of who they support in a general election. Our responsibility is to make a considered judgment about where the national interest lies.

Patty Murray

Our entire country owes Sam a debt of gratitude for all he has done for so many,

Terry McAuliffe

the whole country has been in play, all the different groups of the Democratic Party have been involved in this process, and we need to narrow this down.

Gary Bauer

This country can be better than it is today, and I intend to make it better,

Brett Eldredge

I always give a lot of credit to Ronnie Dunn for making me fall in love with country music.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Rwanda was considered a second-class operation because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily.

Boris Spassky

In my country, at that time, being a champion of chess was like being a King. At that time I was a King and when you are King you feel a lot of responsibility, but there is nobody there to help you.

Argus Hamilton

Fox News reported Thursday that Bill Clinton can't get into any of New York's better golf and country clubs. Not one member has been willing to sponsor him. So it's official, he really is America's first black president.

Argus Hamilton

The Country Music Awards were held Wednesday night at Universal City. The best country songs are always about drinking and guns and love gone wrong. Next year they're giving Robert Blake the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Aravind Adiga

Mangalore, the coastal Indian town where I lived until I was almost 16, is now a booming city of malls and call-centres. But, in the 1980s, it was a provincial town in a socialist country.

David Reed

As a parish priest you're formed much by the people you serve and live with.

Walther Bothe

During conversion, the newly formed nucleus is not always immediately in the ground state, but is at times in one of the possible activated states.

Hamish Bowles

My tastes formed quite early. All I ever wanted to do was go to costume museums.

Jimmy Bennett

I formed some great friendships. I miss some of them. They're passed away and gone now,

Abdul Hakim

The next government will be formed from consensus. There are no red lines.

Dan Watson

The object is only a million years old. If the planet formed within the million years that it took between star formation and when we're seeing it now, that probably makes it the youngest planet we have ever seen.

Tom Brokaw

The greatest generation was formed first by the Great Depression. They shared everything - meals, jobs, clothing.

John Ortberg

The question isn't if someone will sign up for spiritual formation; it's just who and what our spirits will be formed by.

Steve Lewis

Thank God there was nobody in the pool.

Meryl Streep

Thank God I couldn't see anything out there.

Cam Newton

I've said numerous times that I play to have a stage that people will listen to, and I pray to God that I do right by my influence.

Joyce Harris

That's what she said she wanted to do, ... She said that God told her to do that.

Ted Nugent

That's not a big bang. God made that. That's a liver. That's mystical.

Bertrand Russell

We are told that Sin consists in acting contrary to God's commands, but we are also told that God is omnipotent. If He is, nothing contrary to His will can occur; therefore when the sinner disobeys His commands, He must have intended this to happen.

Carl Sandburg

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

Charles R. Swindoll

God does not dispense strength and encouragement like a druggist fills your prescription. The Lord doesn't promise to give us something to take so we can handle our weary moments. He promises us Himself. That is all. And that is enough.

Charles Darwin

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Derek Jeter

People say this is the greatest offense ever. But let us play awhile. Names don't win games. You have to play the games.

Richard Grimes

The smallest pleasures hold the greatest treasures like the smallest treasures hold the greatest pleasures.

Craig Chilton

The summertime and late spring are the greatest times of production for this industry because dealers sell more of these vehicles at this time of year, ... How to Get Paid $30,000 a Year to Travel: Without Selling Anything.

Nick Miller

Dr. Who is my greatest passion in life.

Bhagavad Gita

Established in Self-Realization, one is not moved even by the greatest calamity.

Buzz Hargrove

We've had one strike in the last 30 years with Ford. It shows that they work a lot harder to get something that is mutually acceptable. That relationship, that history we think is our greatest strength going into bargaining.

Michael R. Bloomberg

Tonight we celebrate. Tomorrow, we go back to work. I can't wait. I have the greatest job in the world.

David Goldstein

We got many requests for a mystery. I thought if we were going to do one, why not do the greatest one of all time?

Wayne Coyne

People think its more high-tech than it really is with all the video and all that. It's still held together with duct tape.

Teresa Sheehey

Right now we don't have a meeting room in the building, so some of our programs have to be held off site. For example, our summer reading programs have to be held at the Hilltop Center.

Will Whitticker

I've still got a lot of things I've got to improve. For the most part I held up.

Lupita Nyong'o

I spent some time back in Mexico at 16 because my parents thought it would be prudent for me to learn Spanish, because I held a Mexican passport.

Lynn Cothren

I see why people think it should be held at Ebenezer. But one thing Mrs. King was about was change. She was not so drenched in history that she could not change.

Brandon Siler

We held them and we stopped them when we had to. I'm proud.

Mike Brendlinger

Yes, it was. Defensively, we held them down. We hit some open shots. We moved the ball. We played very well tonight. We got them frustrated. Sometimes things like that kind of snowball.

Charles Rangel

And yet, Republicans have held hostage every penny of relief until the Senate passes their special interest tax breaks,

Alexander Mackenzie

I have always held those political opinions which point to the universal brotherhood of man, no matter in what rank of life he may have taken his origin.

Wayne Gandy

It was the normalcy we've been looking for.

Mike Browning

You're looking at the young guys. You're not looking to win, just to get a win.

Nick Vujicic

If you're looking for happiness in things, you'll never find it.

Sandy Greenberg

We're looking at palm trees now to replace the shade trees.

Allen Iverson

We're looking at our own sizes, we're looking at our friends' sizes,

Jared Bernstein

We're looking at a recession/jobless recovery that's two years old to the day.

Bobby Shelton

I'm a little set back. I had no idea they were looking at retirement. I thought it would stay around for many, many years kind of like the old B-52s did.

Chris Rudge

One would rightfully say that you shouldn't just be looking at the quantity of medals, you should also be looking at the quality of medals.

Kate Jackson

She was looking for something that she really wanted to do. Something that made her happy. And this did,

Jane Goodall

And I thought how sad it was that, for all our sophisticated intellect, for all our noble aspirations, our aggressive behavior was not just similar in many ways to that of the chimpanzees - it was even worse. Worse because human beings have the potential to rise above their baser instincts, whereas chimpanzees probably do not.

Alexander Pope

While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.

Alice Cary

For he who is honest is noble, Whatever his fortunes or birth.

Ronald Reagan

Our American tradition of neighbor helping neighbor has always been one of our greatest strengths and most noble traditions.

John Dryden

Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.

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.

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.

Mira Sorvino

No, this is not what a fair God would do. And why does it not say anywhere in the Bible that slavery is wrong? It only says that you should treat your slaves well. Well, I don't care if you treat them well. How is it possible that it is not immoral to own another person? Why isn't that one of the Ten Commandments? 'Thou shalt not own another person.' You want to sit here and tell me that fornication is worse than owning someone?

Hilaire Belloc

If we do not restore the Institution of Property we cannot escape restoring the Institution of Slavery; there is no third course.

Caleb Cushing

I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms.

bell hooks

It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at the forefront of the movement; but rather than resigning myself to this appropriation I choose to re-appropriate the term “feminism,” to focus on the fact that to be “feminist” in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation from sexist role patterns, domination, and oppression.

Daniel Handler

The moral of Snow White is never eat apples.

Charles Evers

I'm against an all-white anything or an all-black anything.

Alec Baldwin

If Obama was white, he’d be up by 17 points.

Doug E. Fresh

Scientology is not a White religion. It is not just for White people

Anne Sexton

I was only sitting here in my white study with the awful black words pushing me around.

Anthony Hopkins

You're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling?

William Shakespeare

How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!

Ta-Nehisi Coates

To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good. To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.