Booker T. Washington Quotes

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.

Booker T. Washington

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeYouthFeelDoneWillRace

I do believe in exercise and eating right. And I'm not an avid exerciser. I exercise twice a week.

Jennifer Flavin

EatingBelieveWeekExerciseRight

Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred years, was destroyed by the Act of Union. Gentlemen, the Act of Union was carried by force and fraud, by treachery and falsehood.

John Edward Redmond

KnowIrishFraudYearsActForce

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

Anita Baker

FamilyHomeYouGoLeaveFortune

Inevitably, considerations of God in what otherwise intend to be mass entertainments come down to the same thing they come down to in any context, which is a consideration of humanity.

Steve Erickson

GodHumanityDownSameContextCome

Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.

Stephen Ambrose

LifeDailyHistoryDaily LifeCrazy

I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.

Sting

FamilyWantSomethingComeLosers

It hurts a lot when you cannot really comprehend what a person is saying in a meeting, or you don't even understand what you're reading in your contract.

Mary J. Blige

SayingReadingYouMeetingPerson

Study nature, not books.

Louis Agassiz

NatureStudyBooksStudy Nature

I love my job, and I love books. I read anything, including cereal boxes. I care deeply about what people think of my books, and I memorize my reviews. I love to hear from my readers.

Lisa Scottoline

LoveJobPeopleThinkCareAnything

I take care of myself so I don't feel insecure about my body.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

MyselfCareTake CareFeelBody

I didn't bother with television myself because it consisted largely of windmills, puppets and pottery wheels, interspersed with elderly men smoking pipes while they discussed Harold Macmillan in Old Etonian accents.

Christopher Fowler

MyselfMenSmokingTelevisionOld

In Stratford you either turn into an alcoholic or you better write.

Christopher Plummer

BetterYouWriteTurnEither

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