Peter Jennings Quotes

I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.

Peter Jennings

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: July 29, 1938 - August 7, 2005

Topics

ReligionI AmExecutionYearsEmpire

If you don't feel apologetic for slavery, if you don't feel apologetic for colonialism, if you feel proud of it then say that.

Jesse Jackson

SlaveryProudFeelYouSayThen

The industrial society... recognises nothing except the power to acquire... No other kind of hope or satisfaction or pleasure can any longer be envisaged within the culture of capitalism.

John Berger

HopePowerCultureSocietyKind

I am so fresh in soul and spirit that life gushes and bubbles around me in a thousand springs.

Robert Schumann

LifeInspirationalSoulI AmMe

Just as incarceration has come to define the lives of low-income black men, eviction is defining the lives of low-income black women.

Matthew Desmond

WomenMenBlackDefineComeJust

The kids I talk to are readers, and the craziest, the most dedicated readers you will ever see.

Maureen Johnson

YouWillTalkSeeKidsReaders

I love doing deals and operating companies.

Michael Heisley

LoveDoingDealsI LoveCompanies

I personally feel like I do look 28 - I never have seen anyone who told me I looked over 35.

Michael Ealy

MeFeelLookNeverOverSeen

I have a tendency to check out when the stakes are too high in a movie.

Jon Watts

OutHighCheckStakesMovieToo

You start noticing that people are noticing how you look, and it is a profoundly alienating experience when it first happens, where you go on TV and you say something about some topic of the day, and on the Internet people are like, 'What was up with that shirt?' 'What was up with your hair?' And you think, 'Oh, that's kind of a bummer.'

Chris Hayes

ExperienceDayPeopleHairStart

Sports movies are a genre that I really respond to, but they can be done really poorly and really fall short. The good ones are just so good and inspiring and make you feel good.

David Walton

GoodSportsFeel GoodShortYou

The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.

Claiborne Pell

EducationStrengthCharacterPeople

Trusting the world is a risk, while not trusting it is a guarantee you'll be left with nothing.

Brin-Jonathan Butler

WorldYouNothingRiskLeftWhile

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