Benjamin Carson Quotes

My favorite subject was recess. Fortunately for me, I had a mother who believed I was smart.

Benjamin Carson

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• It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Time
  • Different
  • Fun

• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Protect
  • Harm

• There are no free lunches in life. You have to earn it. I am paying my dues. People have accused me of having it easy because I am Amitabh Bachchan's son. Yes, I am his son, and I've never run away from it. I work hard to make him proud.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Weapons
  • Favor
  • Bat

• A woman can walk miles without making one single step forward. As a child born in a harem, I instinctively knew that to live is to open closed doors. To live is to look outside. To live is to step out. Life is trespassing.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Life
  • Live
  • Single

• More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Art
  • Interesting
  • More

• My husband and I were married in May 2007 on a sprawling rent-a-ranch in the Texas Hill Country. On the drive from Houston, we'd stopped off for our marriage license in the former produce aisle of a Winn Dixie-turned-courthouse in San Marcos and from there drove off the grid.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Country
  • May
  • Marriage

• We grow small trying to be great.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Small

• Ethanol has reduced our nation's dependence on imported energy, created thousands of jobs, reduced air pollution, and increased energy security. And renewable fuels cost less at the pump. It is a growth fuel that fuels opportunities for millions of Americans.

  

  Lane Evans
  • Energy
  • Air
  • Growth

• Winning my first UFC fight by a finish, I've never felt so accomplished in my life.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Life
  • Winning
  • My Life

• The fear tactic is a tactic that's used by people who want to maintain control, and it's very effective.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • Fear
  • Control

• I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Depression

• I've always been interested in technology, but specifically how we can use machines to engage the imagination. I started using computers when I was young and was fascinated by creating rules and instructions that allow a computer to engage in a dialogue with humans. The stories found in the data all around us can do just that.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Technology
  • Imagination

• Widows tend either to fade away when husbands die, committing emotional suttee, or else find that a new life burgeons. Here in Christchurch, a lot of burgeoning goes on.

  

  Fay Weldon
  • Life
  • Die
  • Emotional

• There are limits beyond which your folly will not carry you. I am glad of that. In fact, I am relieved.

  

  Isaac Asimov

• 'All right,' said Rowlandson. He began shakily to count out notes. Near-broken, he was still an Englishman; he would not bargain.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Broken

• I've been overseas more than you have in your whole little life.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • Life

• Countless are the women parasites who, to satisfy their craving for pleasure and luxury, impoverish father or husband. These lame limbs in the social organism, which themselves accomplish nothing, but for whom all other limbs work, are the most flagrant example of womanly immorality in the present.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Work
  • Women
  • Father

• I was always being called upon to be an honorary boy alongside my brothers. I don't think I'd be a comic now if it hadn't been for that.

  

  Jo Brand
  • Boy

• Actually, between books is precisely when I do give myself vacations.

  

  Jerry Spinelli

• I am closest to my mother, as she is my rock, my pillar of strength, and my world. Not only has she stood by me through all times - happy, sad, and otherwise - but there have even been moments when I had completely lost hope, and her immense belief in me had lifted me up.

  

  Amruta Khanvilkar
  • Up
  • World
  • She

• As the mother's womb holds us for ten months, making us ready, not for the womb itself, but for life, just so, through our lives, we are making ourselves ready for another birth...Therefore look forward without fear to that appointed hour- the last hour of the body, but not of the soul...That day, which you fear as being the end of all things, is the birthday of your eternity.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Mother
  • Soul
  • Body

• My favorite subject was recess. Fortunately for me, I had a mother who believed I was smart.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Mother
  • Believed
  • Recess