Carter G. Woodson (Carter Godwin Woodson) Quotes

Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.

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• Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • World
  • Men
  • Live

• I'm interested in ways that digital interfaces can be utilized as powerful narrative devices, and to engage people in new and exciting ways.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • People
  • Powerful
  • Digital

• People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • People
  • True
  • Try

• Sometimes a movie encapsulates a period or a moment in all of our lives in such a way that it never dies.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Movie
  • Way
  • Sometimes

• One of the things that helps me tell a story through music is to create a character. I have to have a muse, whether it's Frida Kahlo, Martha Graham, Marlene Dietrich, or Pippi Longstocking.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Music
  • Character
  • Story

• My parents both played golf and introduced me to golf when I was 5 years old. They took me to the driving range and I played around at the range and immediately developed an interest in it.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Parents
  • Golf
  • Interest

• That's the whole point of writing to me - I put my characters under incredible duress, and from that comes their truth. In a way, I'm using them to try to find my own answers in life.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Truth

• A well balanced, inclusive approach, is essential for the proper government of any country.

  

  Laisenia Qarase
  • Country
  • Government
  • Balance

• The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Action
  • Statistics
  • Predictions

• [At Marc Antony's tomb:] Nothing could part us in life, but now in death we are likely to change places, you the Roman lying here in Egyptian soil, and I, helpless woman that I am, being buried in Italy.

  

  Cleopatra
  • Life
  • Death
  • Italy

• I rise today in strong support of the Children's Safety and Violent Crime Reduction Act, because it is a commonsense way to protect our schoolchildren from pedophiles.

  

  Ric Keller
  • Children
  • Today
  • Strong

• Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Positive
  • Teacher
  • Motivational

• But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn't do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs - Early Days - which is what it is - and Latter Days.

  

  Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
  • Hits
  • CD

• A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Wife
  • Gift
  • Paradise

• I hope you will be ready to own publicly, whenever you shall be called to it, that by your great and frequent urgency you prevailed on me to publish a very loose and uncorrect account of my travels, with directions to hire some young gentleman of either university to put them in order, and correct the style, as my cousin Dampier did, by my advice, in his book called "A Voyage round the world."

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Advice
  • University
  • I Hope

• Advocates of dumbing down should note the wonderfully perverse fact that 'University Challenge' and 'Mastermind' were watched by millions who could hardly even understand the questions, let alone ejaculate the answers. Maybe they just liked to watch smart people sweating.

  

  Declan Lynch
  • Understand
  • Answers
  • University

• Marge, you being a cop makes you the man! Which makes me the woman - and I have no interest in that, besides occasionally wearing the underwear, which as we discussed, is strictly a comfort thing.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Woman
  • Cop
  • Discussed

• I know that’s a secret, for it’s whispered everywhere.

  

  William Congreve
  • Knows
  • Secret

• But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • You
  • Deserve
  • Affirmation

• Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.

  

  Carter G. Woodson
  • University
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