Booker T. Washington Quotes

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

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• A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Music
  • Art
  • Poetry

• One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Reason
  • Stories
  • Fiction

• The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Past
  • Water
  • Grind

• Working with Angela Bassett is by far the best. I've watched and admired her for years. I'm very intrigued by her work. She's so cool. I still call her 'Mom' when I see her.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Work
  • She
  • Mom

• I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Liberation

• I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Kids
  • Band
  • Cool

• The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Family
  • Money
  • Bad

• I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • World
  • Family
  • Love

• Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Interesting
  • Matter
  • Create

• The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Will
  • Take
  • Ideology

• There are no free lunches in life. You have to earn it. I am paying my dues. People have accused me of having it easy because I am Amitabh Bachchan's son. Yes, I am his son, and I've never run away from it. I work hard to make him proud.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Up
  • Years
  • Build

• I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Mother
  • Hand
  • Now

• We've all heard of the surveys revealing that teenagers think cows lay eggs, and others where children can identify more brand logos than trees, by a staggering margin. My view is that children will form a significant part of the green fightback. They instinctively understand the value of the environment.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Children
  • Value
  • Environment

• All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.

  

  Bart Stupak
  • Life
  • Law
  • Health

• In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Going
  • Hungry
  • Over

• The greatest responsibility of the planner and architect, I believe, is the protection and development of our habitat.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Believe
  • Responsibility

• By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.'

  

  Oren Peli
  • Experience
  • Movies
  • Software

• I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Education
  • System
  • Repair

• And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.

  

  Hans Kung
  • People
  • God
  • Community

• I had a husband who, I'm convinced, was an undiagnosed manic depressive. He didn't treat me as if I had a brain - I was just this beautiful little doll he could show off.

  

  Britt Ekland
  • Beautiful
  • Brain
  • Husband

• All too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Business
  • Model

• At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

  

  Booker T. Washington
  • Education