Carter G. Woodson Quotes

In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.

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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Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

John Muir

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Rather than allow themselves to be separated from the love of Christ, they submitted cheerfully to every privation, to contumely and disgrace, and to death itself.

John Strachan

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I knew I loved playing bluegrass, so I'd end up down there on Sunday nights at the bluegrass jam.

Sturgill Simpson

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I've learned to sell my music, I've learned to direct, I've written screenplays... All of this fulfilled my artistic needs but also put food on the table.

Robby Benson

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The Archer novels are about various kinds of brokenness.

Ross MacDonald

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A lot of fitness is about contractions - you're doing squats, or you're on a bike and your knees are bending but never stretching all the way, so your muscles get strengthened but look short and thick.

Mary Helen Bowers

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I'm fascinated by religion, but I'm not particularly religious.

Mika

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If you really could fit God in a file, you wouldn't need to believe in God, you know, you'd just go get the file like a box of corn flakes off the shelf.

Mitch Albom

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At the end of the day, it's not really about the aces, it's about getting the job done.

Milos Raonic

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I realized that one of the differences between news photography and dance photography was that the former has to tell a specific story, whereas all a dance photograph had to be was visually interesting.

Lois Greenfield

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I certainly have the problem of focusing on doing everything now to get where I want to be, and not actually seeing and taking in and appreciating what's right in front of me or who's right in front of me.

Jonathan Keltz

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Working with Anthony Hopkins every day is a blessing.

Chris Hemsworth

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