King Quotes

• Dr. King, if he were alive today, probably would simply be a minister, a pastor. His initial intent was, indeed, just to be a preacher. He didn't have any egotistical desire or need to be a public figure or celebrity. He got drafted - or, really, dragged into it - initially in Montgomery.

  

  David Garrow
  • Today
  • Desire
  • Celebrity

• ... A nation has to take its natural course Of Progress round and round in circles From King to Mob to King to Mob to King Until the eddy of it eddies out.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Progress
  • Nation
  • Course

• My black hero is and always will be Martin Luther King, not just because of the strength of his oratory but because his vision was very much the reality that I'd come to take for granted.

  

  David Harewood
  • Reality
  • Black
  • Vision

• Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried the American flag.

  

  Adrian Cronauer
  • American
  • King
  • Equality

• I was in a number of school plays, one in particular, when I was 13 or 14, entitled 'Illusions.' It was put together by one of the teachers, and was about famous historical figures. I had to do the Martin Luther King 'I have a dream' speech, and some black women in the audience were clapping and crying and whooping.

  

  David Harewood
  • Women
  • School
  • Together

• Elvis is the king of rock and roll, who made white kids shake there shackle.

  

  Gene Klein Kiss
  • Kids
  • Rock
  • King

• Why be a governor or senator when you can be king of Disneyland?

  

  Walt Disney
  • Why
  • Governor
  • Senator

• I have been thinking a lot about what we see in villains, how we relate to villains, and what it is about certain villains that we actually empathize with. Like Macbeth. We're not supposed to like a guy who kills the king and takes over, but there's something about him we're really fascinated by.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Thinking
  • Guy
  • Him

• When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Art
  • Age
  • Man

• Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.

  

  Mark Van Doren
  • May
  • King

• The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • American
  • Know

• If you are playing King Lear you are the centre of attention anyway. You don't need to draw attention to yourself. It's all laid out for you.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Attention
  • King
  • Yourself

• Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Fashion
  • Stupid
  • King

• The name James Baldwin had been around the house for as long as I could remember and meant almost as much as that of Martin Luther King.

  

  Darryl Pinckney
  • Long
  • Remember
  • House

• O king! I was but a man like others, asleep upon my couch, when lo, the breezes of the All-Glorious were wafted over me, and taught me the knowledge of all that hath been. This thing is not from me, but from One Who is Almighty and All-Knowing.

  

  Baha'u'llah
  • Man
  • Knowledge
  • King

• Honestly, I never thought we'd get a nomination for a Grammy, period. To be honest, we felt that if we were ever going to get one, we thought we had 'City of Evil' and 'Nightmare' and 'Hail to the King,' and those were all big records, and they never even sniffed at us.

  

  M. Shadows
  • City
  • Evil
  • Period

• Before she was a King, my mother was a peace advocate, a courageous leader, and an accomplished artist.

  

  Bernice King
  • She
  • Mother
  • Peace

• Martin Luther King was a misguided leader. He worked to be recognized as the leader of black America when what black America needs isn't a leader, it is education.

  

  Jim Brown
  • America
  • Black
  • Education

• If you aim at a Scottish presbytery, it agreeth as well with monarchy, as God and the devil. ... No bishop, no King! I will make them conform themselves, or else I will harry them out of the land, or else do worse.

  

  King James I
  • God
  • Devil
  • Aim

• I think Gil Scott-Heron is a king. He's a brilliant, broken king.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Think
  • King
  • Broken

• I would actually like to play Bobby Brown. To me, he was just the King of R&B at one point.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Play
  • Like
  • Point

• An excellent habit to cultivate is the analytical study of the King James Bible. For simple yet rich and forceful English, this masterly production is hard to equal; and even though its Saxon vocabulary and poetic rhythm be unsuited to general composition, it is an invaluable model for writers on quaint or imaginative themes.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Simple
  • Study
  • English

• In 83 I thought we were going to go all the way. We had Roy Smalley, and Steve King, and good players.

  

  Bert Campaneris
  • Good
  • King

• Before my mother was a King, she was a gifted vocalist and musician, whose skill and academia garnered her a scholarship to the prestigious New England Conservatory for Music in Boston.

  

  Bernice King
  • Music
  • She
  • Mother

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