Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Charles Simmons

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Chris Colfer

You can't shy away from your greatness just because you're afraid you're not great enough

Chinua Achebe

You cannot plant greatness as you plant yams or maize. Who ever planted an iroko tree — the greatest tree in the forest? You may collect all the iroko seeds in the world, open the soil and put them there. It will be in vain. The great tree chooses where to grow and we find it there, so it is with the greatness in men.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Greatness depends on where you are coming from.

Dave Chappelle

The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark.

Bill Vaughan

Blushes are the rainbow of modesty.

Ariana Grande

If anyone tries to bully you don’t let them. Take the positive energy form a ball of rainbow power and just, like shove it.

Diana Wynne Jones

If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine.

Diane Ravitch

We will continue to chase rainbows unless we recognize that they are rainbows and there is no pot of gold at the end of them

Denis Johnson

English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows.

Barbara Johnson

We cannot protect ourselves from trouble, but we can dance through the puddles of life with a rainbow smile, twirling the only umbrella we need -- the umbrella of God's love.

Edward Abbey

Only a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians. Or give the science of optics the last word on the matter.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

Clive Barker

All things are true. God's an Astronaut. Oz is Over the Rainbow, and Midian is where the monsters live." - Peloquin

Alan Ball

Racism is ridiculous no matter where it's coming from.

Chinua Achebe

This is why I find racism impossible, because this is against humanity.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it.

David Cross

The underpinning of immigration concerns is xenophobia and racism and nationalism.

Carl Douglas

There was funky Chinamen from funky China town.

Charlotte Bunch

Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.

Bill Maher

Denying racism is the new racism

Don Cornelius

I was never exposed to a great deal of racism, but the Chicago I grew up in was very, very segregated.

Susan B. Anthony

Mr. Douglass talks about the wrongs of the negro; but with all the outrages that he to-day suffers, he would not exchange his sexand take the place of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.