Lena Horne Quotes

You wouldn't be allowed to get on a particular bus, but you'd be asked to sign your autograph.

Lena Horne

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• A child who has overcome challenges with proper emotional support will emerge stronger.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Support
  • Emotional
  • Child

• I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Trying
  • Value
  • Moon

• I usually have two or three books on the go at the same time. If I'm in different moods, I want to read different things.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Time
  • Different
  • Want

• Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.

  

  Barney Frank
  • America
  • True
  • King

• Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face, too, so much the better.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Day
  • Better
  • Hands

• At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Time
  • Earnest

• I'm Dan Gelber. As a federal prosecutor, I helped put away corporate criminals, corrupt politicians and violent gangs.

  

  Dan Gelber
  • Politicians
  • Corrupt

• Last night we owned, with looks forlorn, 'Too well the scholar knows There is no rose without a thorn' - But peace is made! We sing, this morn, 'No thorn without a rose!' Our Latin lesson is complete: We've learned that Love is Bitter-Sweet!

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Night
  • Peace
  • Sweet

• We must make it clear that revolution does not merely mean an upheaval or a sanguinary strife. Revolution necessarily implies the programme of systematic reconstruction of society on new and better adapted basis after complete destruction of the existing state of affairs (i.e., regime).

  

  Bhagat Singh
  • Society
  • Revolution

• It's such a psychological and mental game, golf, that the smallest wrong thing at the wrong time can distract you from what you're trying to achieve.

  

  Lee Westwood
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Game

• Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.

  

  Bill Condon
  • People

• I try to make a really good spy movie, so the animation has to be good. 'Bot Seeks Bot' was one of my lighter and more playful ones, so it can survive not being visually told as well. I did have some issues with the quality of the inking on some of the animation, but a lot of that will only ever bother me.

  

  Christopher McCulloch
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Quality

• Politics is cyclical.

  

  Darrell Issa

• My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.

  

  Amber Tamblyn
  • Age
  • Father
  • Sad

• Sometimes events happen in one Marvel movie that mean you have to adjust what you planned to happen in a different movie, because they're interconnected.

  

  Christopher Markus
  • Different
  • Movie

• I thought I'd live to a ripe old age, because I always felt there was a lot to do. I had a driven feeling. I always thought in the present.

  

  Debbie Harry Blondie
  • Live
  • Age
  • Feeling

• We don't walk. We overeat because we've made it easy to overeat. We have fast-food joints on every corner. By the way, the 'we' is all of us. It's not the government. It's all of us doing this together.

  

  Mehmet Oz
  • Together
  • Food

• I think these things firearms were invented by Satan himself, for they can’t be defended against with (ordinary) weapons and fists. All human strength vanishes when confronted with firearms. A man is dead before he sees what’s coming.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Satan

• My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • City
  • Day
  • Walking

• Let me put it in a positive light, with that archive [of Anne Romaine], we have gained extensive knowledge about how [Alex] Haley and Malcolm X actually worked and how the book, the autobiography, was constructed.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Book
  • Knowledge
  • Light

• I found a way for her to fall asleep, Paris Hilton, talk to herself.

  

  Artie Lange
  • Way
  • Fall
  • Paris

• Homophobia's just one form of abjection, and wherever you have a marker of deviance - skin colour, gender, gender identity, disability - you get the same mechanisms of prejudice.

  

  Hal Duncan
  • Identity

• I wanted to be a success on the stage, the screen, or the radio. So I saved my money and when I had bus fare and $16.82 over, I told my mother, Clara, I was going to leave home. She was heartbroken, but she believed in me.

  

  Carole Landis
  • Home
  • Mother
  • Radio

• You wouldn't be allowed to get on a particular bus, but you'd be asked to sign your autograph.

  

  Lena Horne
  • Bus
  • Allowed
  • Autograph