Carter G. Woodson (Carter Godwin Woodson) Quotes

For me, education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find it and make it better.

Carter G. Woodson

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• I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Time
  • Pregnant
  • Even

• There are many reasons I feel at home in the U.K., but if I were asked to pinpoint the moment I knew I'd arrived, it might well be when I realised the British shared my love of fritters.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Feel
  • Moment
  • Reasons

• The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center serves as a poignant reminder of our past and a trusted source of education for schoolchildren, community members, and visitors from across the country.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Country
  • Past
  • Education

• Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Men
  • Black
  • Comedy

• Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Soul
  • Death
  • Peace

• Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Happiness
  • Scratch
  • Itch

• Well, he doesn't make me laugh. I think I've got a fair sense of humour but I can't really see it in him. I've listened to his show on the radio on a Saturday morning, and that's a load of mince as well.

  

  Ian St. John
  • Think
  • Morning
  • Laugh

• Relationships are hard, so you have to know what type of man you want by your side and what their values are, what is important in his life.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Life
  • Important
  • Man

• Everyone will someday be judged for what they do, and Jah is the only judge.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Judge
  • Will
  • Everyone

• I'm a workaholic. I love every movie I've been in, even the bad ones, every TV series, every play, because I love to work. It's what keeps me going.

  

  Karl Malden
  • Work
  • Love
  • Play

• I have a file of letters and bits of ephemera from friends who have died. I have had lots of friends who died of AIDS.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Friends
  • Letters
  • Aids

• Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Culture
  • Interesting
  • Environment

• One of the first auditions I had in New York was for a commercial where I had to go in and audition to be a snake charmer... It was either some bank commercial or something where they wanted a guy charming a snake... I remember they wanted to know if I actually knew how to snake charm.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Remember
  • Guy
  • New York

• I want to take Negroes out of the ghetto and put them in good neighborhoods in good houses.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Good
  • Want
  • Ghetto

• In fact, as a general thing, money-getters are the benefactors of our race.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Money

• Is it possible to live in this world without the operation of will?

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • World
  • Live

• If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Formula
  • Torn
  • Hiroshima

• I'm exploring the long history of women, first of all, being silenced and, secondly, not being taken seriously in the political and public sphere. It's a call to action through understanding and through looking at ourselves again and trying to reformulate the whole question of women and power.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Long
  • Women
  • Trying

• Writing was in my mind from the time I was in high school, but more, the idea that I would be a doctor. I really wanted to be a medical doctor, and I had various schemes: one was to be a psychiatrist, another was tropical medicine.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Mind

• There's no way we can invent enough stuff for a company of Merck's size.

  

  Kenneth Frazier

• The North can make a steam engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical and determined people on earth - right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with.

  

  William Tecumseh Sherman
  • People
  • Powerful
  • Determination

• My past was so amazing. It's that fine line of appreciating it and letting it go. I have my animal rescue, and I have my daughter and my family that helped me move forward.

  

  Mayte Garcia
  • Family
  • Past
  • Amazing

• One of my favorite writers is Chekhov. I love his attitude toward the world. Just accept things for what they are. Don't judge. Be moral as you tell your story, but have no moral at the end. Just look at it.

  

  Pawel Pawlikowski
  • World
  • Moral
  • Attitude

• For me, education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find it and make it better.

  

  Carter G. Woodson
  • People
  • Mean
  • Justice