Carter G. Woodson (Carter Godwin Woodson) Quotes
The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers.
Carter G. Woodson
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Devout Anatolian masses rising from poverty have transformed Turkey politically and economically.
Pankaj Mishra
Your success in your career will be in direct proportion to what you do after you've done what you are expected to do.
Brian Tracy
Unconsciously, I fell in love with the small round sphere, with its amusing and capricious rebounds which sometimes play with me.
Fabien Barthez
We live under the sun, but our destiny is beyond its rising and setting.
David Jeremiah
The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave.
Rita Mae Brown
In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all; but now, to aid in the making the bondage of the negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, and sneered at, and construed, and hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.
Abraham Lincoln
I am the Prince of Wales; and think not, Percy, To share with me in glory any more: Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere.
William Shakespeare
Minutes, hours, days, months, and years,
Pass'd over to the end they were created,
Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave.
Ah, what a life were this!
William Shakespeare
He lowered the window, and looked out at the rising sun. There was a ridge of ploughed land, with a plough upon it where it had been left last night when the horses were unyoked; beyond, a quiet coppice-wood, in which many leaves of burning red and golden yellow still remained upon the trees. Though the earth was cold and wet, the sky was clear, and the sun rose bright, placid, and beautiful.
Charles Dickens
There's not a word that describes us. We’re not alternative, metal or grunge - we’re not any of that. We’re just what we are.
Jerry Fulton Cantrell Jr.
Alice in Chains
Let thy carriage be such as becomes a man grave settled and attentive to that which is spoken. Contradict not, at every turn, what others say.
George Washington
Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising I came singing into the sun, sword unsheathing. To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking: Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!
J. R. R. Tolkien
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
Henry Kissinger
You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.
Spider Robinson
If through practice of insight you develop a sense of ease, then time has no relevance. If you're miserable, time does matter. It's so unbearable, so enormous you want to get out of it as soon as possible.
Dalai Lama
Nature never makes excellent things, for mean or no uses: and it is hardly to be conceived, that our infinitely wise Creator, should make so admirable a Faculty, as the power of Thinking, that Faculty which comes nearest the Excellency of his own incomprehensible Being, to be so idlely and uselesly employ'd, at least 1/4 part of its time here, as to think constantly, without remembering any of those Thoughts, without doing any good to it self or others, or being anyway useful to any other part of Creation.
John Locke
Nazareth
Being able to draw Batman was 100% of my decision to sign with DC.
David Finch
The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers.
Carter G. Woodson
