Carter G. Woodson (Carter Godwin Woodson) Quotes

What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.

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• Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Time
  • Future
  • Funny

• I'm a big foodie and would love to indulge in such things. I've been to many restaurants in the city, and although I can't eat often, I know what's available where.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Love
  • Know
  • City

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took root is the difference between night and day, the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of the devil.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • World
  • Night
  • Man

• I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Army
  • Jail
  • Oppose

• During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impertinent and precocious, and, at the same time, intractably stubborn and angry if anything went against my will.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Time
  • Angry
  • Same

• It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Health
  • Weight
  • Obvious

• As a young man, I saw families prosper without reading because there were always sufficient opportunities for willing workers who could follow simple instructions. This is no longer the case. Children who don't read are, in the main, destined for lesser lives. I feel a deep sense of responsibility to change this.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Children
  • Change
  • Reading

• The heart and soul of pop is newness, excitement, innovation.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Innovation

• I'm a very independent woman.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Woman
  • Independent
  • Independent Woman

• I love the Kathryn Bigelow example: she didn't just do war movies - she did them better than other directors.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • War
  • Movies
  • Example

• Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's all go exploring.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Growth
  • Innovation

• Even newlyweds don't spend much time together, now that few marriages outlast the appliance warranties.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Time
  • Together

• Honesty is a gift we can give to others. It is also a source of power and an engine of simplicity. Knowing that we will attempt to tell the truth, whatever the circumstances, leaves us with little to prepare for. We can simply be ourselves.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Honesty

• People who understand context would be steamed to have someone else dictating how they can call it.

  

  Larry Wall
  • People

• The only time I'll get good reviews is if I kill myself.

  

  Edward Albee
  • Time
  • Good

• Well, all the plays that I was trying to write … were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Trying

• I never had to say to myself, 'OK now, I've got to grow up and work for a bank, or go and sell real estate.' I never had to make that kind of break.

  

  Luke Wilson
  • Up
  • Work
  • Real

• Documentaries deal with people who live real, everyday lives. But if these people trusted us and told us the truth about their lives, it could be used against them - which sometimes happened.

  

  Krzysztof Kieslowski
  • People
  • Live
  • Real

• The more you behave like you have the right to exist in the world without interference, the less others will question it. The power of a fait accompli is astonishing. The more people see fat bodies moving and being physical and doing whatever makes them happy in the world, without apology and without shame, the more they get used to seeing that and thinking of it as normal.

  

  Hanne Blank
  • World
  • Right
  • Interference

• Immersion in the scriptures is essential for spiritual nourishment. The word of God inspires commitment and acts as a healing balm for hurt feelings, anger, or disillusionment . When our commitment is diminished for any reason, part of the solution is repentance. Commitment and repentance are closely intertwined.

  

  Quentin L. Cook
  • God
  • Spiritual
  • Hurt

• In 1906, I developed pleurisy and was unable to get into condition. So I asked for my release and obtained it. So ended my Major League career.

  

  Kid Nichols
  • Career

• Education is the foundation upon which we build our future.

  

  Christine Gregoire
  • Future
  • Education

• What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.

  

  Carter G. Woodson
  • World
  • History