Burgess Owens Quotes

The NAACP was not a black-run, black-originated organization. It was run by 21 white, socialist, atheist, Marxist Democrats. It was the antithesis of Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.'s community at that time, which was capitalist, Christian, very pro-life, and pro-America.

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• We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.

  

  Yvette Clarke
  • American
  • History
  • Black

• I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Life
  • Live
  • Children

• Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • People
  • Great
  • Black

• Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Life
  • Work
  • Education

• Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Live
  • Future

• The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Life
  • Game
  • Words

• A lot of newspaper columns used to be written in a rat-a-tat-tat, fast-paced style - and they tended to be funny. They were a little relief from the grimmer, grayer parts of the newspaper, and one of the best people at doing this was Will Rogers.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Funny
  • Best

• It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Time
  • Story
  • Same

• I've led a charmed life. I've known people who have been depressed, and I've never had that.

  

  Earl Hamner, Jr.
  • People
  • Life
  • Never

• Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Important

• I sometimes feel it is to my disadvantage that I have not conducted the Cleveland Orchestra or the Boston or Chicago symphonies, but then I have had to sacrifice something in order to have enough time with my orchestras.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Time
  • Sometimes
  • Sacrifice

• Fortunately, I have been very healthy all my life and very active all my life and have enjoyed an active lifestyle.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Healthy

• In my thirties I found myself, to use a colloquial fiction, in a suburban house at the foothills of the Dublin mountains. Married and with two little daughters, I led a life which would have been recognizable to any woman who had led it and to many others who had not.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Life
  • House
  • Myself

• I had an incredibly full life with my imagination: I used to have all sorts of trolls and things; I had a wonderful world around my toys and invented people. I don't mean I had imaginary friends; I just had this big imagination thing going on. I didn't need any imaginary friends, because I had so much other stuff going on.

  

  Kate Bush
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• That's another great thing about getting older. Your life is written on your face.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Great
  • Getting Older

• The best things in life are often waiting for you at the exit ramp of your comfort zone.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Best
  • Waiting

• We used to have to arrange things around the dialysis. I would have to plan where to play so I could be back in time, and couldn't go too far.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Time
  • Play
  • Plan

• If someone comes to me, any community in the Northern Territory, with a viable economic future, and says, 'We want to be part of a bold new approach,' I'll put them down as a major project, and I'll do everything I can to help them out.

  

  Adam Giles
  • Help
  • Future
  • Community

• I believe it is peace in our time.

  

  Neville Chamberlain
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Peace

• What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Good
  • Essence

• There are a lot of things we as individuals can't do much about. We can't solve global warming as individuals, or health care problems, but as individuals, most of us can get our kids reading. We can do that.

  

  James Patterson
  • Kids
  • Reading
  • Health

• I think what we've learned is that the terrorist threat is serious, but it shifts. You cannot make a single person the sole focus of your counterterrorism.

  

  Paul Bremer
  • Single
  • Focus
  • Serious

• I got a piece of a dead person's ligament in my body.

  

  Laurie Hernandez

• The NAACP was not a black-run, black-originated organization. It was run by 21 white, socialist, atheist, Marxist Democrats. It was the antithesis of Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.'s community at that time, which was capitalist, Christian, very pro-life, and pro-America.

  

  Burgess Owens
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