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Rosa Parks Quotes

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: american
Birth: February 4, 1913 - October 24, 2005

Topics

Freedom People Free Person Would

I think a book is often an account, or a series of accounts, that create a world that is sort of half of the world. There are references to a world, and then the reader supplies the other fifty percent.

World Book Think Create Fifty Half

Even as a kid, I ventured out to ethnic restaurants all the time.

Time Kid Out Ethnic Even

From everything I can read about Aussie spiders, it seems like all they really like doing is hiding in your house or garden or car until you 'accidentally' disturb them - probably by doing something crazy like putting on the shoe they are lurking in - and they can officially bite you to pieces.

Car Crazy Doing You House I Can

We watch a romantic comedy because we want to cry, say, or an action movie so we can participate in heroics. Horror's different. It can hit you with a moment of revulsion so hard you might want to erase the last five minutes of your life, please.

Stephen Graham Jones

Life Moment Romantic Action Comedy

When you look at death, it makes you understand the importance of the moment when you have life and death in front of you, and you witness seeing someone deteriorating in front of you - it's an overwhelming experience. If you don't learn from that, I don't know what else you're gonna learn.

Mickalene Thomas

Life Moment Experience Death Learn

Legend has it that when Franco's troops crushed Catalonia in 1939, relegating it for the next thirty-five years to abuse and neglect, one of his generals was asked what more he could possibly want now that he had Barcelona.

Michael Paterniti

Legend Now Want More Years Abuse

I was lucky enough to grow up in a home where I woke up Christmas morning and had toys. I know that's not the case with all people and I don't think kids should go without experiencing that sort of joy.

Home Morning Joy People Think Grow

I think it's very important to allow people into Ted Kennedy. Thousands of people lined the streets the day of his funeral.

Day People Think Important Streets

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

I worked for a couple of screamers in my early days in Hollywood. I don't like being screamed at, and I am not myself a screamer.

Myself I Am Early Hollywood Days Am

I've forgotten what it feels like to be in one place for more than a day... But we signed up for this. This is our dream. We sat down and said this is what we want to do, play music and touring.

Music Day Dream Down Place Play

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Children Parenting Parents Forgive

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