King Quotes

• Martin Luther King Jr. really understood the role of the churches when he said, 'The church is not meant to be the master of the state.' We don't sort of take power and grab the levers of government and impose our agenda down people's throats.

  

  Jim Wallis
  • People
  • Power
  • Church

• There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights. Dr. King did not stir us to move for our civil rights to have them taken away in these kinds of fashions.

  

  Dorothy Height
  • Law
  • Respect
  • Taken

• Law, the king of all mortals and immortals.

  

  Pindar
  • Law
  • King

• When your heart speaks to you about what you need to do to sustain life on this planet, listen to it, make a difference, and be an inspiration for generations to come. Be inspired by people like Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Christopher Reeve, Albert Schweitzer, Helen Keller, and many others.

  

  Bernie Siegel
  • People
  • Life
  • Heart

• Not for a million - years. I mean, I like the INXS boys, but I found the process very degrading, really. Reality television has eaten away at our standards of excellence. I don't like this whole culture, which has evolved, of TV being the king.

  

  Brian May Queen
  • Reality
  • Culture
  • Degrading

• A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.

  

  Jean de la Bruyere
  • King
  • Atheist

• I think you can find some rationales for that if we look at the background out of which he came. Martin [Luther King] had come out of a highly competitive, black, middle-class background.

  

  Ella Baker
  • Black
  • Looks
  • Class

• I read a lot of science fiction, but I also mixed it up with a lot of other genres: crime, literary fiction, as well as nonfiction. Author-wise, I'm a fan of Stephen King, Lauren Beukes, Robert McCammon, Raymond Chandler, Greg Rucka, Ed Brubaker and Gail Simone, among many others.

  

  Adam Christopher
  • Up
  • Science
  • Wise

• Martin Luther King, Jr.'s peaceful, determined struggle for social justice, and Sargent Shriver, who launched the Peace Corps, were early heroes. A career of public service was the ultimate aspiration.

  

  Queen Noor of Jordan
  • Career
  • Peace
  • Justice

• Listen, man: I am not the industrial godfather, king, whatever. I don't relish that title. I don't like it. I think it's limiting. I do country, I do blues. I don't just go straight.

  

  Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs
  • Country
  • King
  • Godfather

• My friends in the Congress, I have known Coretta King since I went south during the civil rights movement as a lawyer. She was a vibrant, consistent, totally dedicated partner with her husband.

  

  John Conyers
  • She
  • Friends
  • Husband

• Well, you know, I played Mufasa in the workshop of The Lion King.

  

  Keith David
  • King
  • Lion

• Life is rarely easy, but, with Christ our King, it is always good.

  

  R.J. Rushdoony
  • Life
  • Good
  • Christ

• Thanks to farm subsidies, the fine collaboration between agribusiness and Congress, soy, corn and cattle became king. And chicken soon joined them on the throne. It was during this period that the cycle of dietary and planetary destruction began, the thing we're only realizing just now.

  

  Mark Bittman
  • Period
  • Thanks
  • Collaboration

• We are made weak both by idleness and distrust of ourselves. Unfortunate, indeed, is he who suffers from both. If he is a mere individual he becomes nothing; if he is a king he is lost.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • King
  • Distrust
  • Suffers

• Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Job
  • Truth
  • Inspired

• We've had a great change. Dr King saw to that. I was so grateful to see the 'colored only' signs come off the water fountains and bathrooms in the south. But the struggle lives on.

  

  Mavis Staples
  • Great
  • Water
  • Struggle

• Jim Rollins is the king of the weird science action genre.

  

  Jonathan Maberry
  • Science
  • Action
  • Weird

• Among her many accomplishments, my mother is often identified as the leader of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday movement.

  

  Bernice King
  • Mother
  • King
  • Holiday

• Ever since 'Hail to the King,' we've been more cognizant of our chord progressions, our key changes, drama in songs, a lot of dynamics - we've really added a lot of that in there.

  

  M. Shadows
  • Drama
  • King

• So long as a man rides his hobbyhorse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him - pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it?

  

  Laurence Sterne
  • Up
  • Long
  • King

• My greatest reward is knowing for certain, as I do with many other acts and artistes, that without Jonathan King being alive and involved, Genesis would not exist, and the guys would have had careers as intended - as accountants and lawyers!

  

  Jonathan King
  • King

• When the Quaker Penn kept his hat on in the royal presence, Charles (King Charles II) politely removed his, explaining that it was the custom in that place for only one person at a time to remain covered.

  

  Arthur Bryant
  • Time
  • Royal
  • Quaker Penn

• It is foolishly thought by some that democratical constitutions will not, cannot, last; that the States will quarrel with each other; that a king, or at least a nobility, are indispensable for the prosperity of a nation.

  

  Marquis de Lafayette
  • King

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