Carter G. Woodson (Carter Godwin Woodson) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
-
I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
-
Let us have peace.
-
When I realised that I had feelings for men as well as women, at first I was worried and frightened, and there was a certain amount of 'Who am I? Am I a criminal?' and so on. It took me a long time to come to terms with myself. Those were painful years - painful then and painful to look back on.
-
I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
-
My parents met because my father was an actor friend of one of my mom's brothers, but my mother has never set foot on the stage - she's quite shy. So it's a strange thing because people say, 'Oh, coming from acting parents,' when the idea of acting would literally make my mother just want to throw up.
-
People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
-
The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
-
It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.
-
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
-
'American Music' is an inventive, passionate, pithy novel whose major theme is love itself and whose minor theme, music, is an emotional, meaningful counterpoint. Like Count Basie and His Orchestra, this book swings.
-
To add an AC outlet, for example, you just drill a circular hole in the wall, tap into the wiring, add the outlet and you're set. If you don't want it, pull it out and plaster over it with more earth to seal the hole.
-
The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.
-
I always looked up there, because I remember a time when the only things on the walls in Fenway were the Jimmy Fund sign and the retired numbers. Never in a million years did you think you'd ever be up there with those guys.
-
Don't even try to talk to me when I'm watching the moon. That's my moon, baby.
-
In the case of my husband, we found that facing a life-threatening illness prodded us to make a dramatic change in our lives.
-
The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies.
-
If vampires were a separate species, and they were into genetic engineering, what would they engineer for?
-
I've always said, 'I didn't have a Plan B in life.' I was in pursuit of my dream from the very beginning. It's all about desire and passion. At all costs.
-
The Obama administration has provided almost no public information about the NSA's compliance record.
-
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.
-
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
-
He's certainly welcome to bring us any kind of information he can. I think just the fact that he is coming might spur some interest in the community.
-
The mere imparting of information is not education.
