Carter G. Woodson Quotes

The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.

Carter G. Woodson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 19, 1875 - April 3, 1950

Topics

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For a long time, companies ignored the fact that 80 percent of sporting goods are sold to the casual consumer.

Jochen Zeitz

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A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.

Jesse Jackson

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Some people actually sleep better when the significant other is with them. For other couples, it's the opposite.

Matthew Walker

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I work in the house next to where I live. We bought a smaller house that I use as my office and the place where my two employees work... We've got tens of thousands of letters from kids stored all over the house in places you would usually put dishes and other things like that.

Jeff Kinney

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You know, failure hurts. Any kind of failure stings. If you live in the sting, you will - undoubtedly - fail. My way of getting past the sting is to say no, I'm just not going to let this get me down.

Sonia Sotomayor

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Once, I got lost in the middle of the desert and had to follow the North Star to find the dirt road where my truck was parked a few miles away. Another time, I got stuck in quicksand for two days.

Trevor Paglen

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I can jump on to a kitchen worktop from standing, like Tigger. It was something my dad could do, and I copied it from him.

Tom Riley

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I was pleased when the picture was over I fit in all right and I spoke well enough as I said before, cause I was scared to death there for a minute. I mean, you're doing a scene with somebody like that or they're watching you or something, you'd better come up with something.

Rod Steiger

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As I point out in the very first pages of 'Into the Wild,' I approached this book not as a normal, you know, unbiased journalist.

Jon Krakauer

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I believe Photoshop is in some way the contemporary darkroom, the creative area that all photographers have available today.

Douglas Kirkland

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I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I Love Lucy or the Carol Burnett Show.

Debra Messing

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I love characters who are clever and smart, and you have to run to catch up with. I think there's something very appealing and rather heroic in that.

David Tennant

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