Susan B. Anthony Quotes

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.

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• Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Long
  • School
  • Kids

• I was very good in all the maths and sciences.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Good
  • Very
  • Sciences

• I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Job
  • Sun
  • Did

• It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Athlete
  • Race
  • Seen

• While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

  

  Karl Marx
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  • Gone
  • While

• I oscillate between being cynical and being naive on a regular basis. I always think that not much shocks me until something much too obvious does.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Think
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  • Cynical

• In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.

  

  Patrick White
  • Life
  • Literature
  • King

• It's always hard to deal with injuries mentally, but I like to think about it as a new beginning. I can't change what happened, so the focus needs to go toward healing and coming back stronger than before.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Change
  • Focus
  • Beginning

• The idea that Americans favor politicians who either remind them of themselves or can imagine what their selves are like because they too have struggled and sung the blues, is, like very best theories of human behavior, immune to falsification by mere evidence.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Best
  • Behavior
  • Blues

• We hate most in others what we dislike in ourselves.

  

  Laurell K. Hamilton
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• Whatever my own practice may be, I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • May
  • Practice
  • Doubt

• I didn't realize Metallica was as big as they were. I just thought it was my buddy Kirk's band - we went to high school together. I wasn't really following metal.

  

  Les Claypool
  • School
  • Together
  • High

• I used cartoons as diaries. I still do. They're my way of figuring out the world, what's happening to me or what I'm thinking about.

  

  Bruce Eric Kaplan
  • World
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• Once you start worrying, it's hard to stop.

  

  Alexandra Petri
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• If one of my colleagues wants to block a bill, they should stand up in front of the American people and explain why.

  

  Kirsten Gillibrand
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• It's slightly complicated for people to grasp the idea of a head of state in human form.

  

  Prince Andrew
  • People

• We have to get back to a government where leaders are willing to talk across party lines and do not have absolute politics as the goal.

  

  Patty Judge
  • Party

• I'm married to a health-conscious American. I try to eat well, but definitely, as an Australian, you have some of the red meat, lamb, steak, barbecues as part of your culture.

  

  James P. Gorman
  • American
  • Culture
  • Health

• I think first thing and the most important thing, for me, is that Boston becomes my musical home, my musical family.

  

  Andris Nelsons
  • Important
  • Family
  • Home

• But when I really look back on my life, being really honest about it and now that I've got the chance to travel the world, seeing how a lot of little kids grow up - my life wasn't so bad.

  

  Artis Leon Ivey Jr.
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• The scientific process has two motives: one is to understand the natural world, the other is to control it.

  

  C.P. Snow
  • World
  • Control
  • Natural

• The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.

  

  Susan B. Anthony
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