Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hiram Rhodes Revels

The colored race saved to the noble women of New England and the middle States men on whom they lean today for security and safety. Many of my race, the representatives of these men on the field of battle, sleep in the countless graves of the South.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

During the canvass in the State of Mississippi, I traveled into different parts of that state, and this is the doctrine that I everywhere uttered: that while I was in favor of building up the colored race, I was not in favor of tearing down the white race.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

I got colored mechanics in the United States Navy Yard for the first time.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

The people of the North owe to the colored race a deep obligation that is no easy matter to fulfill.

Charles Fuller

What we called ourselves in 1944 - colored or Negro - we don't do anymore. Where we are now is not where we were then. It's very important for young people to understand that.

Jay Yelas

From now through September big fish will be in grass packs, ... You need to get a big one ounce jig with a frog or a crabapple or plum colored worm and find your wolf pack of fish.

Karl Lagerfeld

kind of flesh colored leather stockings more than boots.

David Kirkland

I think they are just tired of hitting each other, and they are ready to hit someone else in a different colored jersey. When the lights come one, they are going to fight.

Terry Teachout

What do you see when you look at a representational painting? Most of the time, the first thing I see is a flat piece of canvas covered with colored patterns.

Charles de Lint

There's never an easy route to the things that matter.

Charles Stuart Calverley

Meaning, however, is no great matter.

Charles Stross

Can I remember "I remember lots," I say. How much of what I remember is true is another matter.

Akshay Kumar

Work is work, but family is for life. That's what really matters to me.

Frank Stronach

We want to show the world that no matter where you're born, no matter how poor you are, that you can succeed in life.

Chris Colfer

There's no solution to life, there's going to be problems no matter what.

Chris Bosh

I wouldn't like to make anybody cry, I don't dislike anybody. It doesn't even matter - the opponent is always faceless.

Mike Power

We know what we have to do, now it's just a matter of doing it.

Henry Fawell

Ultimately, no matter how many projects you considered, you can't please everyone.

David H. Murdock

North Carolina was where you could have Thanksgiving and feel like it was Thanksgiving.

Brian Sky

To our knowledge, this is the first (designated) film school in Northern Colorado.

Jamie Campbell Bower

When I was 16, I used to hang out at the Nambucca pub in North London and see The Libertines play live.

Leah Devlin

We use this work every day in North Carolina. All of these investments are not one-time. They require a sustained commitment.

Thomas Mars

In California, there is a strong tension between north and south.

Tomas Borge

If I could go, I would tell the truth to the North American people. President Reagan personally ordered my visa to be denied.

Rick LeLacheur

Sixty-five percent of our traffic comes in the northeast corner.

Lorde

I'm a Kiwi. I'm from a beach suburb called Takapuna, which is on the north shore of Auckland in New Zealand.

Tom Parsons

If American or Northwest don't go along, fares will roll back.

Dennis Prager

Not only do we have a right to be happy, we have an obligation to be happy because our happiness has an effect on everyone around us.

Richard Harris

I think they have an obligation to be part of the solution.

Ryan Costello

Municipalities have an obligation to step up to the plate.

John Cornyn

You have no obligation to tell us how you will rule. Don't take the bait.

James Nicholson

We have an obligation to remember and to pay tribute to those who took up freedom's call,

Gerard Warren

He takes everything personally. You feel the obligation when you work with him.

Glen Loyd

You may keep it without any obligation whatsoever.

Bob DuPuy

We will be prepared to select ownership as soon as the lease obligation is done.

Chris Chase

It's sad and an unfortunate situation. But, it's one we take very seriously, and we have an obligation to serve and protect the community.

Mack Brown

Three years ago I would have said, 'Tell me why I owe YOU one?

Mike Viesca

She has served her time for now. She does not owe the state any more time. She will not be on parole or anything.

Joshua Jackson

I would say trustworthy too, but he owes me money.

John Lane

I think we owe it to them with what they did for us during Hugo,

Howard Dean

He got us into it. He owes it to the American people to get us out.

Matt Hasselbeck

Some of us Seahawks feel that we let the NFC down this past week. So we've got to step it up a little bit. We owe these guys.

Ellen McLaughlin

The more you head into the maelstrom, the more vulnerable you are, of course. But it's what you owe to whatever gift you have.

Benedict Lucchesi

I don't know that I owe them an apology,

Hans Jonas

Being, in the testimony it gives of itself, informs us not only about what it is but also about what we owe it.

Charlie Daniels

I can't wait to get off the bus and... go on stage and entertain people. That's my thing, that's what I love. I love doing it... I thank God I can make a living doing it.

Charlie Chaplin

The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me.

Charlie Chaplin

The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it.

Charlie Chaplin

I am for people. I can't help it.

Charlie Chaplin

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

Charlie Chaplin

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone

Charles Wagner

If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich

Charles W. Pickering

The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation.

Charles Sumner

The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.