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Richard V. Allen Quotes

If you love your children, if you love your country, if you love the God of love, clear your hands from slaves, burden not your children or your country with them.

Richard V. Allen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: public
Nationality: american

Topics

Love God Children Hands You Country

When people said Africa would change me, I didn't understand what they meant. To see the poverty in the townships, for instance, is overwhelming. I found it heart-wrenching to see young children walking barefoot and hungry in the dirt. I'm the kind of person who wants to change the world right here and now, so I got frustrated.

Jennifer Hudson

Change Children Change The World Me

It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.

Robert Kennedy

Future Enough Understand Will Task

A small foot in China, no different from a tiny waist in Victorian England, represented the height of female refinement. For families with marriageable daughters, foot size translated into its own form of currency and a means of achieving upward mobility. The most desirable bride possessed a three-inch foot, known as a 'golden lotus.'

Amanda Foreman

Small Bride Achieving Golden Height

I was only going to go to college because that's what I thought you were supposed to do.

Spike Jonze

College Thought You Go Going Only

Stevie Van Zandt could not walk on to a set and act. I don't know how actors do that! It's the scariest thing in the world.

Steven Van Zandt

Walk World Know Act Set How

It is true that power corrupts. The hope at the polling stations and the actions of the elected representatives, unfortunately, often turn to be opposite. The power of ballot turns into the power of wallet. Some law-makers become law-breakers.

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

Hope Power Power Corrupts True Turn

Here is my wish and my desire and my pledge as well: that we remember our true nature and our womanhood. That we own and know that we are more than our bodies and yet our bodies are these sacred, beautiful, rhythmic houses for us.

Tracee Ellis Ross

Nature Beautiful Wish Remember Know

The entire elementary school in Rotan, Texas, presented a theatrical production of 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.' And the part of Sneezy fell to me.

Tommy Lee Jones

Snow School Me Texas White Seven

In the moment of acting you don't feel like anything, you feel like the person, as much as you can.

Jason Isaacs

Moment Feel You Acting Person Like

Bermuda's beaches are justly famed for their pink sands, colored by the pulverized shells of single-celled organisms called foraminifera. When occupied by bikini-clad sunbathers, the beaches, with Victorian primness, appear to be blushing.

Jonathan Miles

Pink Shells Beaches Victorian Justly

My mother passed away when I was 14, so there were certain things I missed in terms of upbringing. Maybe my mother would have said, 'You have to get a real job.' I don't know because I didn't have that experience. My fortes in school were Spanish, sports, reading and theater. That's what they encouraged.

Joie Lee

Mother Sports Experience Job School

A vote for George Wallace is a vote for the past and oppression.

Coretta Scott King

Past Vote Oppression Wallace George