Harriet Ann Jacobs Quotes
I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.
Quotes to Explore
-
Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.
-
There are a lot of really great cartoonists out there. It's nice to be thought of as one of them.
-
If I'm playing with Ozzy it's just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I'm studying for the SATs.
-
It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
-
A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
-
My parents gave me the easy option that if you're going to go your way, that's the highway. You can expect no funds and no support, which I think was legitimate; that was a fair option.
-
I'm still overwhelmed and, at the same time, kind of star struck that I am part of this New England Patriots organization.
-
One shouldn't know the future.
-
Habits change into character.
-
I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.
-
I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.
-
Anyone driving through London after the school term ends will notice immediately how much easier it is to get around. The school run contributes massively to congestion.
-
I just kept it real and had the freedom to do what I want. It's not designed for any age group. It's not made for radio. There are no edits. The whole album contains explicit lyrics but that's because you need it.
-
On behalf of NARAL Pro-Choice America - and our one million member activists - I am honored to be here to talk to you about what's at stake for women in 2012. I am proud to say that the Democratic Party believes that women have the right to choose a safe, legal abortion with dignity and privacy.
-
In Kurdistan, there's a lot of hardship – a lot of wars, a lot of bitter and difficult lifestyles. And witnessing all those made me a director.
-
I was getting a little bored with my hair. It's kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of the past, moving forward. It's amazing what a reaction you get when you cut your hair.
-
I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends... they are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night.
-
I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
-
With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtroom drama to be had with the intellectual properties. And then what further drew me in was that the most extraordinary social networking device ever created was created by the world's most antisocial person. I liked that story.
-
The only valid rule about the proper length of a statement is that it achieve its purpose effectively.
-
I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and is putting a lot of energy into that, instead of into expressing himself freely and feeling comfortable.
-
It is not as if our homeopathic brothers are asleep: far from it, they are awake - many of them at any rate - to the importance of the scientific study of disease.
-
I know that my tendency is to be linear, and I'm trying to find ways to subvert that. And so in 'Bellocq's Ophelia' my device for subverting it was to tell the story and then to tell it again; it always circles back to this one moment, and it's not linear, but it's round in that way, and much of 'Native Guard' is like that.
-
I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.
