Jimmy Carter Quotes

All my playmates were black. I lived in a little community called Archery ph in a rural area. And I didn't have any white neighbors at all. So all my kids with whom I fought and wrestled and went fishing and worked in the field and so forth were African-Americans. And that was my life. So when I got to be school age, we had to separate during the daytime, but I always felt like I was in an alien environment when I was in Plains, Georgia with white kids. I was eager to get back where I belonged with my black playmates.

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• You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Fun
  • Hope
  • Care

• Most of the fans of John Lennon and maybe John and Yoko are younger than me.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Me
  • Fans
  • Maybe

• Travel is stressful.

  

  Burnie Burns
  • Travel

• I tend to support and get behind issues instead of candidates, because of the whole 'Super Bowl' generalization of our world - You're on this side, I'm on that side; you're a Republican, I'm a Democrat; you're country music, I'm rock music.

  

  Brandi Carlile
  • World
  • Music
  • Country

• I want it all... fast. I want to be married, I want to live together... and then somewhere around a year or two years, I get freaked out. I freak out emotionally and then I actually feel like 'Oh my God, who's this stranger in my house?'

  

  Fred Armisen
  • God
  • Live
  • Together

• Needless to say, if the Arab-Israeli conflict is about interstate disputes and the need to resolve the future of the West Bank and Gaza, it can be solved; if it is a religious conflict, nothing but violence is ahead.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • Future
  • Religious
  • Violence

• I can't believe it hasn't happened yet. It's a shame and it's disappointing. I don't know what the problem is.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Believe
  • Problem
  • Disappointment

• Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • People
  • Use
  • Bitter

• We are so constituted by Nature that we easily believe the things we hope for, but believe only with difficulty those we fear, and that we regard such things more or less highly than is just. This is the source of the superstitions by which men everywhere are troubled.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Believe
  • Nature
  • Hope

• The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.

  

  Richard Strauss
  • Beautiful
  • Human
  • Instrument

• Never let the horns and woodwinds out of your sight; if you can hear them at all, they are too loud.

  

  Richard Strauss
  • Never
  • Sight

• I am proud of what I have got and I need an audience.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Proud
  • Audience

• We all prospect, and don't even know we're doing it. When you start the dating process, you are actually prospecting for the person you want to marry. When you're interviewing employees, you are prospecting for someone who will best fit your needs.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Best
  • Start
  • Dating

• I'm a former, living, breathing, right-wing conspirator.

  

  David Brock

• I am like a child when it comes to gizmos and gadgets.

  

  Adnan Sami

• The will to power can express itself only against resistances; it seeks that which resists it--this is the native tendency of theamoeba when it extends its pseudopodia and gropes around.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Power
  • Resistances
  • Pseudopodia

• Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today ... The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty.

  

  William Osler
  • Men
  • Art
  • Age

• My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.

  

  William Sharp
  • Heart
  • Lonely
  • Hunters

• Paternalism is everywhere in our lives. We have to immunise our children unless we are upset about it. In India, it is the opposite. It is possible to get your kids immunised, but you really have to want to.

  

  Esther Duflo
  • Children
  • Want
  • Upset

• In piano, if you try to force hitting this key and that key, it's very broken. It's not pretty. When you're in archery, you can't try to force it step-by-step-by-step. Then the shot doesn't flow and it's not a good shot. If you just let the performance flow, it's really beautiful.

  

  Miranda Leek
  • Force
  • Performance
  • Piano

• My dad keeps referring to me playing the piano when he's trying to teach me something in archery.

  

  Miranda Leek
  • Piano
  • Archery
  • Referring

• All my playmates were black. I lived in a little community called Archery ph in a rural area. And I didn't have any white neighbors at all. So all my kids with whom I fought and wrestled and went fishing and worked in the field and so forth were African-Americans. And that was my life. So when I got to be school age, we had to separate during the daytime, but I always felt like I was in an alien environment when I was in Plains, Georgia with white kids. I was eager to get back where I belonged with my black playmates.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Archery
  • Playmates