Nannie Helen Burroughs Quotes

Anything that is as old as racism is in the blood line of the nation. It's not any superficial thing-that attitude is in the blood and we have to educate about it.

Nannie Helen Burroughs

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• Nations
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• I'm too self-serious for a comedy.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Comedy
  • Serious
  • Too

• You have to find out how to become the character.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Character
  • You
  • Find

• Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Important
  • Game
  • Forever

• In the movies, they make you look good and tough, but in real life, it's completely the opposite. I do these ueber roles, I think, because in real life I'm quite shy and reserved. In real life, I'm a dork.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Life
  • Good
  • Real

• I always felt like Tahliah's a very grown-up name to have. It's a pretty name when you're young, and then I think when I became a young lady, it felt kind of like a lot to grow into for some reason. I don't know. It sounds kind of regal. I never really liked it. I always felt like I couldn't live up to it.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Up
  • Live
  • Pretty

• When you are romancing a woman in a relationship, it should be poetic. It should have layers.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • You
  • Relationship
  • Woman

• Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit. A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of their liberty- their power and privilege- to State, Masses, Mankind, Planet Earth, or whatever. This state, those masses, that mankind, and the planet will then be run by ... politicians.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Business
  • Power
  • Earth

• For he who fights and runs awayMay live to fight another day;But he who is in battle slainCan never rise and fight again.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Live

• Charisms are not distributed at random but are dispensed by God to supply what is needful and lacking in his Church at each historical moment. If they are from God, they usually do not flow with the latest fashionable trend but much more likely contain an antidote and remedy for the perils of the time.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Time
  • God
  • Church

• Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count.

  

  Kin Hubbard

• Truth is … one approach to the attainment of the good, but in and of itself, it is neither the good nor the beautiful … Socrates, Pascal, and others regarded knowledge of the truth with regard to purposeless objects as incongruous with the good … by exposing deception, truth destroys illusion, which is the principle attribute of beauty.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Beautiful

• I don't think I've ever hosted anything in my life.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • Life

• I am an insomniac. Most of my nights include a moment of wakening. Often I will make my way to the kitchen to make tea and read for awhile.

  

  Jacqueline Novogratz
  • Kitchen
  • Tea

• Someone I've always admired is Catherine O'Hara... I think she's one of the best actresses in the country, not only comedy. I just think she's just a step aside from everybody, she's just wonderful.

  

  Fred Willard
  • Country
  • She
  • Comedy

• It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

  

  Jean de la Bruyere
  • Men
  • Sad

• I wanted to break into producing, so I would peddle my tracks and beats to labels. I always heard the same thing: They liked the music, but it didn't fit any of the artists on their roster.

  

  Mike Posner
  • Music

• As a kid, I became a total SF geek. It started in the 5th grade with Asimov's 'Lucky Starr' series of what would now be called 'young adult' novels of adventures in the solar system.

  

  David Grinspoon

• My family has always provided me unconditional love and support.

  

  Jazz Jennings
  • Family
  • Support

• I grew up with 'Cinderella.' So that was my go-to Disney film, definitely. It was princess-related, and coming from a smaller area in Illinois and wanting to do something greater than myself in Broadway, that was a film that I could really relate to.

  

  Jodi Benson
  • Up
  • Disney
  • Princess

• As long as I'm blessed and/or cursed to be alive, it's hard to see a time when I won't be making music.

  

  Kyp Malone
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• This filthy twentieth century. I hate its guts.

  

  A. L. Rowse
  • Hate
  • Century
  • Filthy

• It is said there is no happiness, and no love to be compared to that which is felt for the first time. Most persons erroneously think so; but love like other arts requires experience, and terror and ignorance, on its first approach, prevent our feeling it as strongly as at a later period.

  

  Lady Caroline Lamb
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Feeling

• Anything that is as old as racism is in the blood line of the nation. It's not any superficial thing-that attitude is in the blood and we have to educate about it.

  

  Nannie Helen Burroughs
  • Justice
  • Racism
  • Nations