James Weldon Johnson Quotes

And God smiled again,And the rainbow appeared,And curled itself around his shoulder.

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• People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Music
  • Dad

• Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.

  

  Daniel De Leon
  • Money
  • Poverty
  • Breeds

• I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. Even if I try.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • Think
  • Forget
  • Try

• The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Up
  • Great
  • Business

• I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Up
  • Church
  • Lot

• I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Moment
  • Living
  • Nostalgia

• Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Business
  • Career
  • Tennis

• For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Time
  • History
  • Government

• Change is inevitable. Things absolutely cannot stay the same. The type of change we invoke is up to each and every one of us.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Up
  • Change
  • Same

• I think that what happens for many Christians is, they accept their particular faith, they accept it to be true, and they stop examining it. Consequently, because it's already accepted to be true, they don't examine other people's faiths... That, I think, is not healthy for a person of any faith.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • True
  • Think

• I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Different
  • Me
  • Kind

• Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.

  

  Ovid
  • Where
  • Promises
  • Millionaire

• You've got to separate the singer and the songs.

  

  Van Morrison
  • You
  • Singer
  • Got

• I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Morning

• There are actors who can pull of a writer's lines; I am not competent enough to do that.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Actors
  • Writer
  • Lines

• My brain doesn't like to be quiet.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Like
  • Brain
  • Quiet

• I do know what it's like to worry about bills, I do know what it's like to worry about even finding a child-minder, never mind paying them.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Mind
  • Worry
  • Finding

• Frequent prayer has great value. On its surface, this sounds simplistic. But if we're to keep prayer at the forefront of our ministry, we and our people have to pray again and again.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • Great
  • Value

• I think to be a supermodel you first had to be a model, and I think people are jumping and missing that stage.

  

  Kim Alexis
  • People
  • Model
  • Missing

• There's only a certain amount of works you can make, so you have to make only the ones you really want to make. It's all about trying to be as productive as possible.

  

  Cornelia Parker
  • Trying
  • Works
  • Productive

• Justification by grace through faith' is the theologian's learned phrase for what Chesterton once called 'the furious love of G-d.' He is not moody or capricious; He knows no seasons of change. He has a single relentless stance toward us: He loves us. He is the only G-d man has ever heard of who loves sinners. False gods- the gods of human manufacturing- despise sinners, but the Father of (Yeshua) loves all, no matter what they do.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • God
  • Father
  • Faith

• you may call a person vain, and they will smile; you may call them immoral, and they may even feel flattered - but call them narrow-minded and they have done with you.

  

  J. E. Buckrose
  • Done
  • May
  • Smile

• Obama sees the world in two ways: from the black perspective and from the white perspective. He was raised as a black man, whose culture he has self-consciously adopted. But he was reared largely by his white grandparents. He lived a kind of racially bipartisan experience, and he will be able to speak a language that resonates with both communities.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • World
  • Culture
  • Community

• And God smiled again,And the rainbow appeared,And curled itself around his shoulder.

  

  James Weldon Johnson
  • God
  • Rainbow