James Meredith Quotes

What I did at Ole Miss had nothing to do with going to classes. My objective was to destroy the system of white supremacy.

James Meredith

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• The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Desire
  • Prayer
  • Without

• I like when a girl knows what she looks like and dresses to accentuate those features.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Girl
  • Dresses
  • Features

• To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Man
  • Poor
  • Race

• 'Make You Miss Me' is an important song to me. Having it go No. 1 as the fifth single off of my first record is the cherry on top of a chapter in my life I'll never forget.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Life
  • Important
  • Song

• I have severe claustrophobia, and I panic if I'm more than six feet above ground.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • More
  • Feet
  • Panic

• Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.

  

  Eberhard Arnold
  • God
  • Mind
  • Help

• I started playing chess when I was five years old. I learned the moves from my mother, then worked with my father - and later trainers. My style became very technical. I sacrificed a lot of things. I was always hunting for the king, for the mate. I'd forget about my other pieces.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Style

• The process of discovery in my field is very incremental. But there are moments when you realize you know something about the world nobody else knows. That's extraordinarily exhilarating.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • World
  • Moments
  • Discovery

• I read the script for 'Somnia' when I was filming 'Oculus,' and I remember calling my manager going, 'I really need to do this movie,' and he's like, 'How about you finish this one first and then you see it?' I was like, 'I don't need to. I don't need to. You need to read this. I need to do this movie. The script is very good.'

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Movie

• I am very excited and delighted to be an important part of the development of corporate America.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • America
  • Development
  • Excited

• When I was in elementary school, we weren't allowed to do sports other than cheerleading. By junior high, they let us play, but we had to come back after 6:30 p.m. to practice because there was only one gymnasium and the boys used it first.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • School
  • High
  • Sports

• A film has its own life and takes its own time.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Life
  • Time
  • Film

• The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Back
  • Ant

• Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Knowledge
  • Lost
  • Grace

• I don't take myself seriously in the slightest, so it does amaze me that I've ended up being in all these very dark, sinister plays. But I love it because, touch wood, I'm lucky enough not to have that level of darkness in my life.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Life
  • Lucky
  • Take

• When you play arenas you can create whatever you want. At a theater the height of the stage and the limitations of the theater can make you feel more separate from the audience.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Want
  • Play
  • Limitations

• I believe that Christianity in the United States has been dragging its feet, and I don't think there's any other force in America that has been more detrimental to the solution of our racial problems than Christianity.

  

  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
  • Believe
  • America
  • Problems

• It occurred to me that a food drive would be a natural way to talk to kids about hunger, which so many of them simply aren't aware of.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Kids
  • Way
  • Food

• I live in Manhattan but travel all around the world; I moved to Paris when I was 16; I lived in London twice. It's kind of like, if I want to move somewhere, I don't have anything holding me back. I don't have children. If I wanna live in a certain place, I'll go. But I've lived everywhere, and I prefer New York to everything.

  

  Jessica White
  • World
  • Live
  • Children

• We all work together to pump each other up. Before the show Aladdin, we give each other a pound on the back, like a sports team.

  

  Adam Jacobs
  • Work
  • Team
  • Show

• What I don't like so much is people who - how do you say this? - who make judgments over the genre of reality like it's television from the devil, and that's something that I don't like because I think everybody should watch what they like. It's a free world. It's a form of democracy. If you like it, watch. If you don't like it, don't watch.

  

  John de Mol, Jr.
  • People
  • World
  • Free

• At least with tonight's game, it's setting up for the two games with Tampa Bay. At least we gave ourselves a chance.

  

  Bob Hartley
  • Game
  • Chance

• Napolean is dead - but Beethoven lives.

  

  Bruno Walter

• What I did at Ole Miss had nothing to do with going to classes. My objective was to destroy the system of white supremacy.

  

  James Meredith