Booker T. Washington Quotes

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

Booker T. Washington

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifePowerSimpleInfluenceEarth

N.W.A had something in common with the Rolling Stones and MC5 and groups like that: the voice of rebellion. It's rebellion against your parents. It's rebellion against the system. It's rebellion against society.

Jerry Heller

ParentsSocietyVoiceRebellion

On the political side, I was the Democratic nominee for the Governor of Tennessee in 1970 and 1998.

John Jay Hooker

PoliticalSideDemocraticTennessee

It's staggering how many players, even with the sums of money they make, don't do a great job of saving it.

Jeff Van Gundy

GreatMoneyJobPlayersEvenHow

One of the best things about Kickstarter and crowdfunding and the collapse of the music business is a lot of artists like me have been forced to face our own weird mess about ourselves and what we thought it meant to become musicians.

Amanda Palmer

BusinessMusicBestMeFaceThought

Mike Hall was my old friend and, more important, the finest soldier I'd ever known. After over 30 years of service and then 18 months at a good civilian job, a phone call had brought the retired command sergeant major back on active duty to become the senior enlisted adviser of all international forces in Afghanistan.

Stanley A. McChrystal

GoodFriendServiceJobPhone Call

I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who had come back to Poland after the war and talked about why they had come back.

Steven Spielberg

TimeWarPeopleBackWhySaw

In all my work I like to convey the fact that I like cooks, that it's noble toil and that it is hard.

Rocco DiSpirito

WorkHardNobleLikeToilFact

I'm not for the sort of trade deals that hollow out our standards while they hollow out our middle class and middle class wages.

Martin O'Malley

ClassOutStandardsTradeMiddle

When I moved to L.A. in my early twenties, I was growing my hair. Then, when I was 25, I cut it off and was like, 'Oh no, I think I'm a long hair person until I go bald!'

Jonathan Van Ness

HairThinkLongLong HairEarlyGo

The script for 'Trainspotting' was amazing, and it was different from the book.

Jonny Lee Miller

AmazingBookDifferentScript

In terms of political contributions, the free speech rights of corporations I don't think deserve the same protections as the free speech rights of real living, breathing, voting humans.

Chris Coons

FreeThinkVotingPoliticalSpeech

I have nothing against rich brothers and sisters. Pray for 'em every day. But callousness and indifference, greed and avarice is something that's shot through all of us.

Cornel West

DayRichGreedEvery DayNothingUs

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