Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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• Long Life

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• Every child deserves to grow up knowing their potential and feeling confident that they won't fall at the first hurdle - that they cope with life's setbacks.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Life
  • Up
  • Feeling

• An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Love
  • Body
  • Female

• The whole purpose of life is to make yourself happy.

  

  Ed Victor
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Purpose

• I aimlessly travel, meaning I have no agenda other than to get small in the world, be quiet and observe people.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • People
  • World
  • Small

• There is an unwritten social rule now that you can harangue the wealthy to give money away, but you mustn't ask how the money was made. There are no galas celebrating the money people knew better than to seek. Charity begins after profit.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • People
  • Money
  • Charity

• There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Great
  • Write
  • Difficult

• The continual cracking of your feet on the road makes a certain quantity of road come up into you. When a man dies they say he returns to clay but too much walking fills you up with clay far sooner (or buries bits of you along the road) and brings your death half-way to meet you. It is not easy to know what is the best way to move yourself from one place to another.

  

  Flann O'Brien
  • Up
  • Death
  • Road

• This is... the funeral of the Cold War. It marks a profound, historical change.

  

  Jack Straw
  • War
  • Cold
  • Changes

• Momma was home. She was the most totally human, human being that I have ever known, and so very beautiful. Within our home, she was an abundance of love, discipline, fun, affection, strength, tenderness, encouragement, understanding, inspiration, support.

  

  Leontyne Price
  • Home
  • Fun
  • Beautiful

• By the time it came to the 90s, the late 90s, being a businessman was the beacon to uphold. We've been having the concept of the best rapper equals the best businessman.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Time

• If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people.

  

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  • People
  • Good
  • Country

• I think it's important to raise your kids, start 'em early. Teaching them the values and morals, so when they get out there on their own, you know they have it. They just have to remember to use it, but they have it.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Important
  • Kids
  • Remember

• No matter what else they're doing, women are also always nurturing.

  

  Cokie Roberts
  • Women
  • Nurturing

• I think if you like somebody you have to tell them. It might be embarrassing to say it, but you will never regret stepping up. I know from personal experience, however, that you should not keep telling a girl that you like her after she tells you she isn't into it. You should not keep riding your bike by her house either.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Up
  • She
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• Children are arrows in a quiver, and they are to be trained as missionaries and shot at the Devil.

  

  Jim Elliot
  • Children
  • Devil
  • Shots

• Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Plant
  • Flowers
  • Sorrows

• Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

  

  Aristotle
  • Praise
  • Higher
  • Standard

• Boys everywhere. All seven of them plus their dad, running and laughing and shoving each other around on the front lawn, engaged in what appeared to be a full-contact, tackle version of ultimate Frizbee. They were playing shirts and skins. Shirts and might-fine-lookin' skins.

  

  Kate Brian
  • Running
  • Skins
  • Contact

• . . . as far as the regime is concerned, well, the play is sheer terror for them. Because they feel, How dare - how dare anybody lift his or her voice in criticism against us? We have the guns. Their level of paranoia and power-drunkenness is unbelievable.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Criticism
  • Concerned
  • Terror

• Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt.

  

  Stewart Udall
  • Positive
  • Concerned
  • Contempt

• We know well enough that if we repeal this law and give nothing for it, the people of this country will regard it as a total demonetization of silver, which it will be, so far as this Congress is concerned, without any question.

  

  Richard Parks Bland
  • Question
  • Enough
  • Nothing

• Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Concerned
  • God's Will
  • Long Life