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.Claude Brown
Quotes to Explore
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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 -
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 -
It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach.
Bela Bartok -
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 -
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 -
My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.
Abraham Lincoln
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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 -
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 -
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 -
Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life.
William Goldman -
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 -
He who knows Love becomes Love, and he knows All beings are himself, twin-born of Love.
Elsa Barker
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Today more than ever communities of color must join together and use our collective voice to secure an equitable democracy for us and future generations!
Derrick Johnson -
To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way.
Keinan Abdi Warsame -
Good, honest, hardheaded character is a function of the home. If the proper seed is sown there and properly nourished for a few years, it will not be easy for that plant to be uprooted.
George Amos Dorsey -
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