Booker T. Washington Quotes

If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.

Booker T. Washington

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: educator
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 5, 1856 - November 14, 1915

Topics

DreamsYouRealizeHardGoingRead

Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best.

Maude Adams

LifeFailureBestDayDo Your Best

New York City is the greatest city on the planet. It's the capital of the world.

Andy Mineo

New YorkCityWorldNewPlanetYork

Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.

John Podhoretz

ChangeReflectionCulturePop Culture

Friends in the Midwest often ask me what it's like to raise a family in Los Angeles. I say it's just like where they are, but warmer and with more traffic. I also tell them people here seem a bit more tolerant of those who are different.

Steven Levitan

FamilyPeopleMeFriendsLos Angeles

I've still got family members living below the poverty line in New York.

Tracy Morgan

FamilyNew YorkPovertyNewLiving

We're charging what we're worth and we don't think we're worth $22.50. We take a lower cut than Pearl Jam.

Tre Cool

ThinkWorthTakeCutThanJam

In the past, you'd have one magazine, it would arrive monthly, and that was your magazine. You'd devour it; you'd absorb all the knowledge in it; you'd read it over and over again.

Louise Wilson

KnowledgePastYouOverIn The Past

In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium.

Loretta Young

PerformanceTelevisionNewAgency

Of course I've had a bunch of broken bones, sprains and I've had five or six concussions, with three serious ones. I also got a real heavy duty blood clot and internal bleeding from where I was shot in the stomach with a beanbag bullet that the police use for crowd control. I've also had six stitches in my head.

Johnny Knoxville

PoliceBrokenControlSeriousThree

I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself.

Alice Hoffman

BookStoryNeverOutTonePlot

I like to write about wherever I happen to be.

Woody Guthrie

WriteHappenWhereverLikeAbout

At home, I had seven brothers, one sister. I sewed clothes for my sister's dolls although she was grown and gone away. I was a weirdo but didn't think I was a weirdo.

Philip Treacy

HomeSisterThinkClothesSheGone

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