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

• I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've gotten more determination. I've got a better idea what I'm doing out there.

  

  Randy Johnson
  • Confidence
  • Determination

• 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

• Radicalization is very easy when you mock what people hold dear.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • You
  • Easy

• My brain doesn't like to be quiet.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Like
  • Brain
  • Quiet

• There's always been product placement in Bond movies.

  

  Pierce Brosnan

• Plus l'effort est grand, plus la gloire en est grande.

  

  Pierre Corneille
  • Effort

• The nearer you come to God, the less you are disposed to questioning and reasoning. When you actually attain Him, when you behold Him as the reality, then all noise, all disputations, come to an end.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • Reality

• It is high time that the Arab world's professed desire for peace is matched by responsible action, and not more of the same equivocation.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Time
  • World
  • High

• The Jug Band was exactly what I wanted to do, and it wasn't my idea.

  

  John Sebastian
  • Band

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

  

  James Weldon Johnson
  • God
  • Rainbow