Claude Brown Quotes

Despite everything that Harlem did to our generation, I think it gave something to a few. It gave them a strength that couldn't be obtained anywhere else.

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• Our concerns sink into insignificance when compared with the eternal value of human personality - a potential child of God which is destined to triumph over lie, pain, and death. No one can take this sublime meaning of life away from us, and this is the one thing that matters.

  

  Igor Sikorsky
  • Life
  • God
  • Children

• They thought that I did conceive there was a difference between them and Mr. Cotton... I might say they might preach a covenant of works as did the apostles, but to preach a covenant of works and to be under a covenant of works is another business.

  

  Anna Hutchison
  • Business
  • Might
  • Works

• It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach.

  

  Bela Bartok
  • God
  • Believe
  • May

• Because I'm a woman, because I'm a character actress, because I'm over 40, I'll be very interested to see, not just for me but for other actresses, how Hollywood treats us in the next ten, fifteen years. I'm hoping that it's not going to be so easy to shove people under the rug, as they have in the past.

  

  Kathy Bates
  • People
  • Character
  • Past

• Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • God
  • Proud

• My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Father
  • Bargain
  • Tighter

• Learning is the beginning of wealth. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins. The great breakthrough in your life comes when you realize it that you can learn anything you need to learn to accomplish any goal that you set for yourself. This means there are no limits on what you can be, have or do.

  

  Alfred Einstein
  • Learning
  • Beginning
  • Wealth

• Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Life
  • Regard
  • Intelligent Man

• If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.

  

  William Godwin
  • Men
  • Book

• Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life.

  

  William Goldman
  • Life
  • Enough
  • Creative

• Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Reason
  • Popular
  • Passions

• Sympathy is what you have for someone after they die, pity you have for someone when they don't have a date to the biggest dance of the year. Empathy is what I do to you when you judge me. Envy is having pity on yourself. Can you discern the rest for yourself?

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Die
  • Dance
  • Sympathy

• Welcome to my nightmare, I think your going to like it.

  

  Alice Cooper
  • Nightmare

• Everyone saw me on TV or read articles, and it was all about my great marriage, the white picket fence, all this success and my perfect life. But behind the scenes, it was a struggle.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Life
  • Great
  • Success

• The successful memoirist blogger respects facts, uses them accurately, rigorously represses the human impulse to lie or embellish, but knows that truth is both different from facts and greater than facts, and not always their sum.

  

  Bill Roorbach
  • Truth
  • Human Impulse
  • Memoirist

• Despite everything that Harlem did to our generation, I think it gave something to a few. It gave them a strength that couldn't be obtained anywhere else.

  

  Claude Brown
  • Generations
  • Despite
  • Harlem