Elizabeth Keckley Quotes

I was born a slave-was the child of slave parents-therefore I came upon the earth free in God-like thought, but fettered in action.

Elizabeth Keckley

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• I was a confused young girl with so much tragedy. Sometimes when you're going through stuff, the last person you're thinking exists is God. I mean, it was my confusion, the anger that was in my heart, all that drama. But thank God I know God now, okay?

  

  Tasha Smith
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Heart

• Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • God
  • Different
  • Society

• I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.

  

  Orson Welles
  • God
  • Want
  • Because

• Safe storage and child access prevention laws are critical steps as we seek to reduce the occurrence of accidental shootings and suicides involving guns.

  

  Carl Levin
  • Child
  • Laws
  • Guns

• There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Being
  • Opposite

• Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Free
  • Choose
  • Possibilities

• I don't mind doing action or kung fu, but I'm also really happy to do something dramatic. I'd like to show that a Chinese girl doesn't have to do crazy martial arts to get the part.

  

  Zhu Zhu
  • Mind
  • Happy
  • Girl

• Do not worship me, I am not God. I'm only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Worship

• Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Nature
  • Free
  • Alone

• God values you simply because He created you. You are precious to Him, and your value will never change.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Change
  • Value

• Affirmative action makes employers think, 'Black woman nuclear physicist? Hah! Probably let her into Harvard 'cause they were looking for a twofer. Bet she got C's in high school practical math. Give her a job in personnel.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • School
  • Job
  • Black

• It was his father who had shrunk, who no longer had the power of the giant, of the god, to enfold him and keep him safe.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • God
  • Power
  • Father

• If all were equalized by death, as the medieval idea constantly emphasized, was it not possible that inequalities on earth were contrary to the will of God?

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • God
  • Death
  • Earth

• I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my Definite Purpose in life, therefore, I DEMAND of myself persistent, continuous action toward its attainment, and I here and now promise to render such action.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Action
  • Purpose

• Is there anything that is forbidden to anybody who says they have God on their side? Who says they have God with them? Is there any evil that they forbid themselves to do? 10

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • God
  • Evil

• Stressing the God-centered life can lead to an otherworldly withdrawal from everyday earthly life.

  

  Leland Ryken
  • Life
  • God
  • Everyday

• But in Christianity, by contrast, the freedom of the children of God was also freedom from all important worldly interests, from all art and science, etc.

  

  Bruno Bauer
  • God
  • Important
  • Children

• It seems pretentious to assume that we are not creatures of action. I think often it takes a situation of extreme absurdity, extreme action, to push us to the limits of what our character is, and to change us as people.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • People
  • Character
  • Action

• I love people who go out and say, 'If cinema is God, then I'm the pope.' As an actor working with these kinds of people, the older you get, the more you appreciate it.

  

  Pilou Asbaek
  • People
  • God

• I do remember my first purchase: the Partridge Family's 'Greatest Hits.' I got it for $3.99 at a failed chain of pre-Wal-Mart-type stores called Jamesway. God, I'm old.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • God
  • Family
  • Remember

• The true despisers of the world are the people who accept what God sends them, gratefully use all things when they have them, and gladly do without them if God takes them away.

  

  Martin Luther
  • God
  • Accept
  • Despisers

• I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.

  

  Eden Phillpotts
  • Money
  • Never
  • Goal

• Young women who come to Rise every weekend range from ages 15-19 years if they're in school and 19-24 years if they're out of school. These empowered young women talk about protecting themselves, their friends and communities and how they can educate people to help break the stigma surrounding AIDS.

  

  Jay Ellis
  • People
  • Women
  • School

• I was born a slave-was the child of slave parents-therefore I came upon the earth free in God-like thought, but fettered in action.

  

  Elizabeth Keckley
  • God
  • Free
  • Action