Benjamin Banneker Quotes

Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.

Benjamin Banneker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 9, 1731 - October 9, 1806

Topics

CourageEasyLoseNeverDifficulties

As a navigator, I started studying astronomy because sometimes you're not able to use the equipment, so you'd have to do it the old-fashioned way, figuring out what you were seeing in the sky.

Melvin Van Peebles

SkyYouSeeingSometimesWayOut

I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish. He's usually the lead singer in a punk band and plays guitar. But my serious boyfriends are relatively clean-cut, nice guys. So it's strange.

Megan Fox

DatingGuitarSeriousNiceStrange

I am as interested in seeing what happens to my characters as any reader; that is why I tell kids that writers write for the same reason readers read - to find out the end of the story.

Ann Turner

I AmStoryEndSeeingFindWhy

I always could putt. Part of my makeup, I always could putt.

Tom Watson

MakeupAlwaysPartPuttCould

The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Roy L. Smith

IntegrityCharacterFaithManOwn

I'd love to be an old actress and still be in a soap.

Debra Stephenson

LookStreetAdmireSheCarryDriver

New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that.

Dean Kamen

TechnologyIdeasNewNew IdeasThan

Many have forged a path to greatness lit only by a vision in their minds.

Chris Gardner

VisionPathGreatnessMindsLit

No one knows what an amazing spirit she was. She wasn't only a mother; she was a best friend.

Bobbi Kristina Brown

FriendMotherBestAmazingSheOnly

I know what I'm like when I don't have a project coming up, and that's the mode I'm almost more comfortable in. That's when I get really scrappy and creative.

Allison Williams

CreativeKnowComfortableProjectUp

The moment that changed me for ever was when I had my first seminar with my history professor at the University of Sussex. I realised that history would answer all the questions I had spent my life asking. It was an extraordinary moment.

Philippa Gregory

LifeHistoryMomentMeMy Life

Where do you go to buy back your reputation when you lose it?

Peter Berg

ReputationYouLoseBackGoBuy

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