Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

Nothing is so much needed as a secure family life for a people seeking to rise out of poverty and backwardness.

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• Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It's the kind of a life a decent man leads, it's something to live for and to die for.

  

  Dalton Trumbo
  • Life
  • Live
  • Man

• I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Life
  • School
  • Wish

• The attitude and identity that we want to play with doesn't change.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Change
  • Attitude
  • Identity

• I'm in a monogamous relationship and very happy.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Happy
  • Relationship
  • Very

• After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.

  

  Yvonne De Carlo
  • Movie
  • Star
  • Learn

• People do stupid things in the heat of the moment. I've been in Vegas where I've gotten married for, like, five minutes.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • People
  • Stupid
  • Moment

• An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • World
  • Work
  • Art

• I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.

  

  Aaron Staton
  • Always
  • Feel
  • Competitive

• I don't pretend to be a digital savant or even a digital apprentice.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Pretend
  • Digital
  • Apprentice

• I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Interested
  • Slickness

• The idea that feeling confident and feeling misunderstood are mutually exclusive really bugs me. So a lot of what 'Rookie' is about is just showing that you can be both, and you can like whatever you want.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Want
  • Feeling
  • Idea

• Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Men
  • Hope
  • Endure

• If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Woman
  • Rule
  • Her

• You don't make any money sitting in traffic.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Money
  • You
  • Traffic

• Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Health
  • Nothing
  • Medicine

• I just want you inside, baby, we don't need to talk about promises.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Want
  • Baby
  • Needs

• A purpose gives meaning to life. It is like the hub in a wheel -- with every spoke fitted into it to make a strong and perfect circle. Without such a hub, spokes will not radiate evenly and your wheel will lack strength, will tend to break apart on the first good bump it hits. Given a strong hub, a strong purpose, a person can take a surprising number of shocks and bumps on the outside rim without sustaining permanent damage.

  

  Oveta Culp Hobby
  • Life
  • Good
  • Strong

• Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,- Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies: They fall successive, and successive rise.

  

  Homer
  • Spring
  • Youth
  • Rise

• If the great Phil Ochs were to rise from the dead today, he would probably be hailed as the new David Rovics.

  

  Andy Kershaw
  • Dead
  • Rise
  • Hailed

• I played a lot of sarcastic, wisecracking characters for a long time, and people would think that was me. And it's very much not me, and then people would think I was being sarcastic when I wasn't: 'Oh, you're making fun of me right now.' And I wasn't!

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. No biological, psychological, or economic fate determines the figure that the human female presents in society; it is civilization as a whole that produces this creature, intermediate between male and eunuch, which is described as feminine.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Society
  • Civilization
  • Female

• My dad's very temperamental. Even today, he can be difficult.

  

  Carlos Zambrano
  • Dad
  • Difficult
  • Temperamental

• Nothing is so much needed as a secure family life for a people seeking to rise out of poverty and backwardness.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Rise
  • Secure
  • Family Life