Claude McKay Quotes

Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.

Claude McKay

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: jamaican
  • Birth: September 15, 1889 - May 22, 1948

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That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage.

Jesse Helms

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I run from Horatio Street down just past Battery Park City and back. It's amazing to run and see the Statue of Liberty and the ferries coming in. People think if you're not near Central Park, there's nowhere to go, but there's a whole ecosystem happening down here.

Andy Cohen

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What's impressed me about 'Star Trek' fans is how many generations they span and how many nations they represent. They are all over the place.

John Cho

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I have no inhibitions about smoking or drinking, but I think too much of my voice to place it in jeopardy. I have spent many good years in training and cultivating it, and I would be foolish to do anything which might impair or ruin it.

Jeanette MacDonald

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I've come to love making videos for my company.

John Rampton

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I always get excited over James Murphy's work and everything that comes out of DFA. I really like the way that Murphy and LCD Soundsystem mix electronic, dance and rock together.

Stephen Morris

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We are living in a world where image-making is important, so we ignore the facts.

Shimon Peres

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You mustn't take any award so seriously.

Tony Randall

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What makes a successful country is when you invest in the people of the country - whether it's education, health care, job training - and you rebuild a clean America to provide the kind of infrastructure that will be sustainable and let us grow.

Tom Steyer

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I often say that shareholders should feel very responsible for how responsive corporations are to the public trust.

Ruth J. Simmons

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America's role in the global economy inevitably was going to diminish; we're smaller relative to - as China, India, other emerging markets grow.

Joseph Stiglitz

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I don't have a problem with any defenders. I've always played against great defenders.

Diego Costa

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