Alain LeRoy Locke Quotes

The younger generation is vibrant with a new psychology; the new spirit is awake in the masses . . . Each generation . . . will have its creed.

Alain LeRoy Locke

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• This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.

  

  Walter Reisch
  • Man
  • Know
  • Spirit

• I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Wisdom
  • Generation
  • Member

• That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Up
  • Important
  • Rules

• Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.

  

  Nas
  • People
  • Power
  • Generation

• If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • You
  • Spirit
  • Place

• This generosity that has been offered to the United States says very much about the Venezuelan spirit.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • Spirit
  • Generosity
  • United

• We are working to understand the tastes of people born in the 1980s and 1990s - it is very different from my generation. We do our own research. Marketing research companies, I think, are relatively academic.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • People
  • Different
  • Generation

• I am fortunate to have the ability to lend my name to build the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre in my hometown of Melbourne. It will be a state-of-the-art facility to help heal the whole person - body, mind and spirit.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Mind
  • Help
  • Spirit

• I've got weird conflicting feelings about my generation.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Feelings
  • Weird
  • Generation

• Heaven is a state of mind, not a location, since Spirit is everywhere and in everything.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Mind
  • Heaven
  • Spirit

• I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the fact that we'd chosen this very conservative genre.

  

  Laura Lippman
  • Up
  • Think
  • Generation

• Even though it's still the United States, I think on many levels they feel separate, especially the true Hawaiians - who are not necessarily thrilled to be a part of the United States. But I just love the whole spirit.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • True
  • Feel
  • Spirit

• The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit.

  

  Odilon Redon
  • Artist
  • Spirit
  • Materials

• I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops.

  

  Odilon Redon
  • Work
  • Spirit
  • Materials

• My father, his spirit is with me constantly, and I'm a believer in that world and the world of dreams. So I've had dreams of my father over the years, and that's the way I really stay connected to him. He's still in my subconscious. He lives in there.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • World
  • Father
  • Dream

• There is one thing you and I as parents cannot do, not do we want to do if we really think about it, and that's control our children's will--that spirit that lets them be themselves apart from you and me. They are not ours to possess, control, manipulate, or even to make mind.

  

  Barbara Coloroso
  • Mind
  • Children
  • Parents

• Our being edified at conference depends on us. It becomes necessary that we prepare our hearts to receive and profit by the suggestions that may be made by the speakers during the progress of the conference, which may be prompted by the Spirit of the Lord. I have thought, and still think, that our being edified does not so much depend upon the speaker as upon ourselves.

  

  Lorenzo Snow
  • Thinking
  • Heart
  • May

• I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Children
  • Family
  • Spirit

• Constitution is not a mere lawyers document, it is a vehicle of Life, and its spirit is always the spirit of Age.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Life
  • Age
  • Spirit

• My generation has just decided it is time to speak up.

  

  Coco Gauff
  • Generation
  • Speak Up

• I cannot but think that it would be a great step if mankind could familiarise themselves with the idea that they are spirits incorporated for a time in the flesh re spirits incorporated for a time in the flesh.

  

  Catherine Crowe
  • Ideas
  • Spirit
  • Mankind

• I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... an Arctic region covered with ice.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Funny

• I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and feel amazed at what I sensed was the enormity of the power I possessed. Not magical power, but real power. The power simply to go on, the power to endure, that is power enough, but I felt I had also the power to create, to add, to delight, to amaze and to transform.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Real
  • Heart
  • Endure

• The younger generation is vibrant with a new psychology; the new spirit is awake in the masses . . . Each generation . . . will have its creed.

  

  Alain LeRoy Locke
  • Spirit
  • Generation
  • Creed