Jesse Owens Quotes

The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.

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• I think Nick Markakis is a perennial All-Star, and nobody knows about him. I think people are learning about how good he is.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • Good
  • Learning

• I have been fighting climate change for two decades, and people often ask me how I remain hopeful in the face of extreme weather and grim forecasts. The answer is simple: I see countless solutions spreading across the nation and across the world. But we need more investment.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • People
  • World
  • Change

• When you work on a movie, especially an independent movie, it's a lot of work to make it! It's not just our job as actors - so many people are working so hard, and even the littlest movie takes a lot of work.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Work
  • Job

• Don't take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Present
  • Yourself
  • Laugh

• Reality is what you can count on.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • Reality
  • You
  • Count

• As a kid, you obviously dream of being a professional footballer. I would watch players like Ronaldo of Brazil and pretend to be him in the playground. But I don't think about trying to become one of the best in the world or anything like that. I just play football.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • World
  • Trying
  • Dream

• There's no question that the Kings have been, are, and can be great hosts for any major events.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Great
  • Question
  • Kings

• I created my MySpace page in eighth grade, because that's how all my friends talked to each other, so I made one, too. Then, all of a sudden, my friends started putting my songs on their profiles, and then their relatives, their friends in different states did.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Different
  • Friends
  • Page

• One way in which 'Friends' did resemble 'Seinfeld' is that it really found its audience over the summer of 1995 in reruns. That's when the main title song, 'I'll Be There for You', by the Rembrandts, exploded, too.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Friends
  • Song
  • Summer

• Well, I've thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seriously consider getting another job, I don't know what I'd do.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Job
  • Career
  • Know

• I'm not sure why I'm so drawn to heroes who do bad things and to villains who think they're the good guys, but I do find that moral ambiguity and conflict makes for great characters.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Good
  • Great
  • Why

• No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Time
  • Everest
  • Mount Everest

• There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!

  

  Edgar Cayce
  • Progress
  • Motivational
  • Move

• There was a manifesto in the late '60s/early '70s, and it basically laid out what 'black art' was and that it should embrace black history and black culture. There were all these rules - I was shocked, when I found it in a book, that it even existed, that it would demarcate these artists.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Art
  • Book
  • History

• The question tonight, as I understand it, is 'The Negro Revolt, and Where Do We Go From Here?' or What Next?' In my little humble way of understanding it, it points toward either the ballot or the bullet.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Question
  • Understanding
  • Humble

• A buzzard took the monkey for a ride in the airThe monkey thought that everything was on the squareThe buzzard tried to throw the monkey off his backBut the monkey grabbed his neck and said - 'Now listen, Jack...' 'Straighten up and fly rightStraighten up and fly rightStraighten up and fly rightCool down, papa, don't you blow your top.'

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Up
  • Fly
  • Blow

• We who know personal religion by experience know that there is nothing on earth to compare with the moral force exerted by it. It has demonstrated its social efficiency in our own lives.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Experience
  • Earth
  • Moral

• In my view, wholesome pleasure, sport, and recreation are as vital to this nation as productive work and should have a large share in the national budget.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Work

• Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Science

• I feel like when I get into most rooms, melodies come really easily to me, and they sound good in my head. I never really know until I hear the song back and it's finished if it actually is good.

  

  Maren Morris
  • Good
  • Song

• I only had a telephone conversation with [Donald Trump], whereas [Shinzō ] Abe met with him in person.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Persons
  • Conversation
  • Mets

• All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art I have for writing has been used always for propaganda for gaining the right of black folk to love and enjoy. I do not care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Art

• Koudelka looked back, "You?! I know you! You trust beyond reason!" Cordelia met his eyes steadily, "Yes, it's how I get results beyond hope, as you may recall.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Reason
  • Eye
  • Results

• The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.

  

  Jesse Owens