James Weldon Johnson Quotes

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

James Weldon Johnson

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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've certainly had periods when I felt like life was winning and I was losing, so I think everybody can relate to that quandary - the temptation to give in, to give up, and then what It takes to keep going.

  

  Malcolm Gets
  • Life
  • Up
  • Winning

• Before God closed in on me, I was offered what now appears a moment of wholly free choice. But I feel my decision was not so important. I was the object rather than the subject in this affair.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Important
  • Free

• May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Moon
  • Wind
  • Sails

• Whether it's a 16-year old girl, or a mom, or a guy, or anybody, as long as they come up and they're excited to meet me 'cause they've had some sort of relationship with something I've created, it's the coolest thing ever. It never gets old. It's awesome.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Up
  • Long
  • Guy

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

  

  James Weldon Johnson
  • God
  • Rainbow