Cass Gilbert Quotes

Humble birth did not retard his genius, nor high place corrupt his soul.

Cass Gilbert

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• We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

  

  Irving Layton
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Whatever

• I am kind of the front man for a team of people behind the scenes who are working just as hard as me and are putting in just as much time to make this all happen. I'm not trying to be humble. I just want everyone to get credit where credit is due.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Soul
  • Want
  • Stop

• I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Crazy

• I keep my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Miracles

• I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Music
  • Real
  • Soul

• Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • People
  • Trying
  • Character

• The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Music
  • Together
  • Soul

• Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • American
  • Action
  • Genius

• You have to know when to be arrogant. You have to when to be humble. You have to know when to be hard and you have to know when to be soft.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Know
  • Humble
  • Be Humble

• I mean, if someone asked for my birth certificate, I'd get my baby book and hand it out and say 'Here it is.'

  

  Vicky Hartzler
  • Book
  • Hand
  • Baby

• Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Truth
  • Freedom
  • Birth

• The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something.

  

  Gamal Abdel Nasser
  • Rest
  • Wonder
  • Stupid

• Circles, like the soul, are neverending and turn round and round without a stop

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Soul
  • Stop

• A sort of anteneurosis of what I will be when I will not longer be freezes my body and soul. A kind of remembrance of my future death makes me shudder from the inside.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Soul
  • Future
  • Death

• Love is the song of the soul, singing to God.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • God
  • Soul
  • Song

• 'I cannot raise my worth too high;Of what vast consequence am I!''Not of the importance you suppose,'Replies a Flea upon his nose;'Be humble, learn thyself to scan;Know, pride was never made for man.'

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • High
  • Pride
  • Humble

• Religions grow out of the deepest needs of individuals sharing a common awakening, and are not created by 'engineers of the soul.'

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Soul

• I have listened to you, to our people. I have heard your doubts, your anxieties, nay, outright opposition to the lifting of Martial Law. And I have prayed to the Almighty for guidance. And it is after deliberate, sober judgment and soul-searching that I come before you and say, it is now time to terminate martial law.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • People
  • Time
  • Soul

• Theatre is not supposed to represent psychology but passions, which is totally different. Its role is to represent the soul's different emotional states, and those of the mind, the world history.

  

  Ariane Mnouchkine
  • Mind
  • Soul
  • Theatre

• I'm proud to acknowledge my debt to the 'Reverend Satchelmouth' ... He is the beginning and the end of music in America

  

  Bing Crosby
  • America
  • Proud
  • Debt

• Physical excellence does not of itself produce a good mind and character: on the other hand, excellence of mind and character will make the best of the physique it is given.

  

  Plato
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Excellence

• Humble birth did not retard his genius, nor high place corrupt his soul.

  

  Cass Gilbert
  • Soul
  • Genius
  • Humble