Spokes Quotes

• Marcus Garvey was one of the first advocates of Black Power, and is still today the greatest spokesman ever to have been produced by the movement of Black Consciousness...He spoke to all Africans on the earth, whether they lived in Africa, South America, the West Indies or North America, and he made Blacks aware of their strength when united.

  

  Walter Rodney
  • Today
  • Earth
  • Movement

• John Paul II spoke to the commoner and to the king, to the tyrant and to the democrat in that same language of freedom.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Freedom
  • King
  • Kings

• We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Wheel
  • Spokes
  • Wagon Move

• But it is really, really fun to just change it up some and to absolutely be a very small spoke on a big wheel, and to just be a part of that and contribute to something that people can enjoy.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • People
  • Fun
  • Enjoy

• Anyone who ever spoke to me would know I would never say the words 'get hitched' nxt time do ur research.

  

  Lady Starlight
  • Time
  • Words
  • Knows

• Because, as we are told—a sad old joke, too— Ghosts, like the ladies, never speak till spoke to.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Speak
  • Sad
  • Jokes

• The women that I picked spoke sweet and low And yet gave tongue. "Hound voices" were they all.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Women
  • Sweet
  • Lows

• The NYPD was ubiquitous. They were always around Malcolm X. Whenever Malcolm spoke, there would be one or two dozen cops all over the place.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Two
  • Cop
  • Dozen

• I don't know, 'Zorro' was just so great for me because, knowing where I came from, everyone spoke Spanish to me, like, forever after that. And I'm, like, from Wales.

  

  Catherine Zeta-Jones
  • Knowing
  • Spokes
  • Wales

• If Jesus himself, or Mohammed, or Buddha spoke to me personally and said that women are inferior to men, I would still reject that as false dogma because I know with every ounce of my being that this is not true.

  

  Alice Bag
  • Men
  • Jesus
  • Said

• Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.

  

  William Empson
  • Men
  • Long
  • Law

• Have you ever felt like you could cry because you know you just heard the most important thing anybody in the world could have spoke at that second?

  

  Kaye Gibbons
  • World
  • Important
  • Like

• Do you remember that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, "How well he spoke" but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, they said, "Let us march.

  

  Demosthenes
  • People
  • Remember
  • Said

• I know. You could never hid anything. Your eyes always gave you away. You had the most wonderful eyes I'd ever seen." She lifted her head from his shoulder and looked discretely at him. When she spoke, her voice was barely above a whisper. "I think I loved you more that summer than I ever loved anyone.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Thinking
  • Eyes
  • Summer

• Spokes are one of those Saturn-system phenomena that we are keenly interested in understanding.

  

  Carolyn Porco
  • Understanding
  • Spokes
  • Saturn

• Paul spoke about the root of faith (Eph 2:8). James spoke about the fruit of faith (Jm 2:17-18).

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Faith
  • Roots
  • Fruit

• Thirty spokes are joined in the wheel's hub. The hole in the middle makes it useful.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Useful
  • Joined
  • Spokes

• Christianity had ceased to be the creed of the poor. He spoke with pompous exaggeration. Whether man were the best or the worst of created beings.

  

  Georg Ebers
  • Christianity
  • Exaggeration
  • Pompous

• Back in the day, Barry Crump not only had these stories that talked about that kind of rustic personality, but also, he spoke volumes, I guess, of the relationships in the stories that he told in these books.

  

  Rhys Darby
  • Book
  • Kind
  • Personality

• Things are often spoke and seldom meant.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Talking
  • Spokes

• Dennis Mathis was very sensitive about keeping the unique way that I spoke English - it had a lot of Mexicanisms or Mexican syntax. So you keep it in because it's adding something unique.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Unique
  • Mexican
  • Sensitive

• This is the key to understanding the virgin birth. God's Word is full of faith and spirit power. God spoke it. God transmitted that image to Mary. She received the image inside of her. .. the embryo that was in Mary's womb was nothing more than the Word of God. .. She conceived the Word of God.

  

  Charles Capps
  • Understanding
  • Spirit
  • Birth

• When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

  

  Chico Xavier
  • Children
  • Faces
  • Adults

• I don't like that word 'discovery.' ... Sinatra was the first one to call Ray Charles a genius, he spoke of 'the genius of Ray Charles.' And after that everybody called him a genius. They didn't call him a genius before that though. He was a genius but they didn't call him that. ... If a white man hadn't told them, they wouldn't've seen it. ... Like, you know, they say Columbus discovered America, he didn't discover America.

  

  Gayl Jones
  • Men
  • Firsts
  • Genius

1

2

previous

next