Bill T. Jones Quotes

Slavery is a memory of something we cannot remember, and yet we cannot forget.

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• Let's judge a man on what he's done.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Done
  • Man
  • Judge

• Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Energy
  • Change
  • Environment

• Reverence is fatal to literature.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Literature
  • Reverence
  • Fatal

• I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • People
  • Up
  • Space

• I haven't a clue what's going to happen next, and I can't wait to find out.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Find
  • Happen
  • Wait

• All of my close friends are emotional train wrecks. This is what makes our lives interesting - constantly doubting ourselves, worrying, wondering if we've made a mistake. Could we have done better? Are we good people? Are we bad people?

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • People
  • Good
  • Done

• I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Like
  • Being
  • Himself

• I lost my confidence.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Lost
  • Confidence

• If they keep booing, and we keep winning, I don't care.

  

  Tarvaris Jackson
  • Care
  • Winning
  • Keep

• Forever, it was just soccer - passion, life, love. Then I got married, and I had to transfer some of my energy. I want to be my best for my country, but I also made a really big promise and choice to be the best in my marriage. That has not always been the easiest thing to manage.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Life
  • Energy
  • Passion

• It's very rare to see an undisturbed birth in a modern U.S. teaching hospital, but when you see a woman who isn't frightened, who's giving birth without interference, you stand back in awe and realize how little needed you are except in the rare circumstance.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
  • Giving
  • Woman
  • Stand

• It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • People
  • Time
  • Strong

• We all go back to our roots. My father went to the central west, went to Ilfracombe in 1919. He was the manager of the wool scour there. And, Ilfracombe was right at the heart of Australia's great wool industry, and my mother was a teacher at Winton.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Great
  • Heart
  • Mother

• Let me encourage you to get up every day and focus on what you do have in life. Be thankful for the blessings of the little things, even when you don't get what you expect.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • Up
  • Day

• The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Mind
  • Culture
  • Value

• Fair use is not in the law.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • Law

• I didn't go to classes. I just didn't feel like it.

  

  Bob Dylan

• The study of Euler's works will remain the best school for the different fields of mathematics and nothing else can replace it.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Different
  • School
  • Study

• I ain't no angel, I still got a few more dances with the devil.I'm cleaning up my act little by little.I'm getting there. I can finally stand the man in the mirror I see.I ain't as good as I'm gonna get, but I'm better than I used to be.

  

  Tim McGraw
  • Up
  • Good
  • Mirror

• I don't think I've ever worn anything other than black jeans and shirts. Quite simple, really, and quite casual.

  

  George Ezra
  • Black
  • Simple

• The best thing #MeToo did was say women's experiences matter. You can't blame us for what happens to us anymore.

  

  Amanda Knox
  • Women
  • Happens
  • Experiences

• I remember Glenn Miller coming to me once, before he had his own band, saying, How do you do it? How do you get started? It's so difficult. I told him, I don't know but whatever you do don't stop. Just keep on going.

  

  Benjamin David Goodman
  • Remember
  • Stop
  • Band

• I am bowled over by the massive number of remarkable people who face down the fact that no, they are not going to be film directors, famous artists, or billionaire entrepreneurs and still come out the other side as cheerful, decent, gracious human beings.

  

  Lionel Shriver
  • People
  • Famous

• Slavery is a memory of something we cannot remember, and yet we cannot forget.

  

  Bill T. Jones
  • Remember
  • Forget
  • Slavery