Hilary Beckles Quotes

What are the 10 major legacies that European colonization have left behind? Issues of illiteracy. Issues of ill health. Issues of poor infrastructure. Issues of backward agricultural economies. And it goes on.

Hilary Beckles

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality:
  • Birth: August 11, 1955

Topics

HealthPoorInfrastructureLeftGoes

I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.

Mel Brooks

BusinessBelieveBetterBeingBehind

Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes.

John Mason Brown

EyesTelevisionGumChewing GumSome

All the work that I do, whether or not it ends up being commercially successful or not, feels like the most important thing to me while I'm doing it. I try to take something away from every project, and so they all feel like milestones for one reason or another.

Michael Ian Black

WorkMeFeelDoingImportantTry

It's too easy to blame other people in football.

Steven Gerrard

FootballPeopleBlameEasyOther

I would've loved to have been in a band, but sadly I just wasn't good enough.

Tony Blair

GoodLovedEnoughBandBeenJust

I put it in the back of my mind that someday I would fly around the world.

Ross Perot, Jr.

MindFlyWorldBackSomedayWould

Wars don't happen on battlefields; they go on happening in people's hearts for generations and generations, and the ecological damage is unfathomably complex and dire.

Michael Leunig

PeopleGoHappenComplexHearts

I had a very good kiss from Bob Monkhouse once. I thought, 'If I was straight, I would go for Bob.'

Miriam Margolyes

GoodKissThoughtGoWouldStraight

I tweeted that Tom Brady's politics are 'garbage,' which may have been hyperbolic.

Josh Gondelman

PoliticsGarbageMayBeenTomBrady

Atlantic's Jerry Wexler believes first-rate records are made by first-rate voices. He certainly has worked with enough of them: Clyde McPhatter, Joe Turner, La Vern Baker, Ray Charles, Otis Redding, Solomon Burke, Wilson Pickett and Aretha Franklin.

Jon Landau

EnoughVoicesRecordsBakerMadeHe

You can never become rich unless you like rich people.

Douglas Coupland

PeopleRichYouBecomeNeverLike

A parentologist is a person who writes a book about parenting that is very clear about answers to, 'How am I supposed to raise my child?' Some of these well-intentioned people may be a bit too sure-footed on the sometimes slippery slope of parenting.

Clyde Edgerton

ParentingChildPeopleBookPerson

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