Carter G. Woodson (Carter Godwin Woodson) Quotes
Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.
Carter G. Woodson
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Same-sex marriage is not the future.
Maggie Gallagher
I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.
Walter Dean Myers
My kids know the importance of being active – and that's why teaming up with the USTA was such an organic fit for me. They are making strives to get families outside – and using tennis as a way to get kids to stay active.
Laila Ali
The bipolar world of the Cold War is history. The new world order, however, is not the One World dreamed of by Wilsonian idealists. It is a Balkanizing world where race, tribe, culture and creed matter most, and democracy is seen not as an end in itself but as a means to an end - the accretion of power by one's own kind to achieve one's own dreams.
Pat Buchanan
I was tall and skinny, and at 15, I was approached to model. I figured that models got to travel, and it became my ticket to travel so much so that if an agency could not fly me to another country, I would fly on my cost so that I could see that country and also make some money.
Nargis Fakhri
Most of the time, we keep looking outside and feeling sad about what others have. Those are mere excuses.
Yami Gautam
Ethical control may survive in small groups, but the control of the population as a whole must be delegated to specialists-to police, priests, owners, teachers, therapists, and so on, with their specialized reinforcers and their codified contingencies.
B. F. Skinner
It no longer matters who consider themselves the masters of events. Events no longer obey their masters.
Dan Simmons
People knew about 110 years of chess history. Nowadays, nobody is able to tell you the name of the world champion of 2000.
Anatoly Karpov
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.
Benjamin Franklin
We don’t forgive being as we are.
Antonio Porchia
What the mortgage bubble was all about was big banks like Goldman Sachs taking big bundles of subprime mortgages that were lent out largely to low-income, highly risky borrowers, and applying this kind of magic-pixie-dust math to these bundles of securities and slapping AAA ratings on them.
Matt Taibbi
I'm always flattered when someone thinks of me as a potential commissioner of baseball.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
You have to fight really hard for a private life, and sometimes you don't have one. It just gets to you after a while. It's tough.
John Carpenter
I play guitar because I like to make loud noises. And the guitar is the coolest way to make a loud noise.
Kim Thayil
Soundgarden
More than likely, mother would simply go enigmatic on him, give him one of her inscrutable smiles, and tell him that if he didn't already understand, he never would.
Orson Scott Card
Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.
Carter G. Woodson
