Henry Hampton Quotes

Food might be more immediately important than history but if you don't understand what's been done to you - by your own people and the so-called 'they' - you can never get around it.

Henry Hampton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 19, 1940 - November 22, 1998

Topics

HistoryFoodPeopleYouDoneNever

We would be a much healthier culture if the government had never told us how to eat.

Joel Salatin

CultureGovernmentNeverEatUsHow

Why spend money on movies when you can spend it on gas? Or dry cleaning? Or groceries?

Andre Leon Talley

MoneyYouCleaningMoviesWhyDry

Calculation never made a hero.

John Henry Newman

HeroNeverMadeCalculation

One of the tough things about being an actor, probably the hardest thing, is getting your foot in the door, and my father handled that for me at a very early age.

Jeff Bridges

FatherAgeMeDoorToughEarly

To be honest, Peter Pan was one of those fairy tales that I sort of related to, and I think that's the case with a lot of kids. The whole idea of escapism really resonates with a lot of kids.

Robbie Kay

ThinkFairyHonestWholeIdeaKids

I remember when I first started playing tennis, it was always my sister dressing me. She wanted me to look good. And then it really became a routine for me. It doesn't consume too much of my day, but it's something I always pay conscious attention to.

Milos Raonic

GoodDayMeSisterRememberLook

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

Joseph Campbell

LifeSeaExperienceUniqueLandOut

I don't walk around big headed. I'm not a superstar.

DMX

WalkBigSuperstarAroundHeaded

People who have the drive to achieve spend most of their time on what brings them the most tangible, immediate sense of success. Investments in our family only pay off in the very long term.

Clayton M. Christensen

FamilySuccessTimePeopleDrive

I still fall back a lot on my Les Paul, and there is just no getting away from a Les Paul and a hot pickup.

Art Alexakis

FallBackHotAwayJustStill

A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents.

Richard Reeves

ChildrenHistoryPoliticsDirtyUp

Of course, aid is only one small part of international development. Some of the greatest benefits to the world's poorest can be achieved through policy changes by developed countries.

Nicola Sturgeon

WorldSmallDevelopmentChangesOnly

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