Whitney M. Young Quotes
The unhealthy gap between what we preach in America and what we often practice creates a moral dry rot that eats at the very foundation of our democratic ideals and values.
Quotes to Explore
-
San Francisco, coolest place ever.
-
Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
-
And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.
-
My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
-
You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
-
It's so lovely to know that people who you would never think know about Bollywood, they know about Bollywood.
-
I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.
-
Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual's contribution far more than the individual himself.
-
Before and after my debut, I've helped out other manga artists from time to time, but I have no experience of being exclusively an assistant. Nor have I done individual or self-published manga.
-
Oh, yes, we were on location with Another Man's Poison, which I wrote for Bette Davis.
-
The camera and I have always had good chemistry.
-
I love Manhattan.
-
My energy level has not changed.
-
In our search for a lasting solution to the Kashmir problem, both in its external and internal dimensions, we shall not traverse solely on the beaten track of the past. Mindsets will have to be altered and historical baggage jettisoned.
-
My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man by his entire development, his desires, and striving can only have been destined by fate to lead our people into a brighter future.
-
Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.
-
Not too many people can afford for the wife to stay home and raise the kids.
-
To make an absolutely gross generalization, I think a lot of people feel like if you're mixed, more often than not you're quote unquote white. So if you're mixed, you embrace the mainstream culture more than the African-American culture.
-
I've discovered that the less I say, the more rumors I start.
-
I don't have an extensive background in theory, but the amount of it that I've learned, I've applied, so I have a vocabulary of melodic and rhythmic relationships. And that's all theory is - it's symbols to help you identify those relationships.
-
Since this our first show, I think they'll see us sweat a lot.
-
When you say 'comic book' in America, people think of Mickey Mouse, and Archie. It has a connotation of juvenile.
-
Georgie’s grandfather had been born in Italy, and lived in America for five years before he got his citizenship papers, at which time he could rightfully be called an Italian-American. In Georgie’s eyes, this was the only time the hyphenate could be used properly. His parents had been born here of Italian-American parents, but this did not make them similarly Italian-Americans, it made them simply Americans.
-
The unhealthy gap between what we preach in America and what we often practice creates a moral dry rot that eats at the very foundation of our democratic ideals and values.
