W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes

School houses do not teach themselves - piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men. It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 23, 1868 - August 27, 1963

Topics

LifeMenSoulSchoolBlackThought

I'm such a tomboy - I was raised in the South - and I also really wanted to work in New York, being so different from California, though it was a freezing-cold winter.

Jessica Stroup

WorkWinterNew YorkNewCalifornia

The Strait of Hormuz is an international waterway, and it is not helpful for any nation to suggest that it would attempt to restrict traffic through the strait.

John C. Stennis

TrafficNationThroughHelpfulWould

From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds.

John Greenleaf Whittier

LifeTruthDeathNewOldProceeds

Let me tell you the polls that count, and those are the polls a couple of weeks before the election. That's when the pollsters worry about holding onto their credibility. Those are the polls that everybody remembers.

Rush Limbaugh

MeWorryYouElectionTellCount

Just the circumstances of being in D.C., people give you books, and there are issues you want to learn more about, so you are tearing into as many as you can.

Mike Quigley

PeopleLearnYouWantCircumstances

I played in bombed-out houses and grew up with the ever-present consequences of a lost war and the awareness that my own country had inflicted terrible pain on many nations during the horrific World War II.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

PainWarWorldConsequencesCountry

'Cougar' has become so distasteful. I really hate that expression.

Demi Moore

HateBecomeExpressionReally

I met Hillary Clinton when I was a young lady working as an intern, and I can tell you she's been a progressive fighter all her life. And Bernie Sanders, I got to know him during campaigns on Capitol Hill, campaigns across this country. These are two wonderful, fighting souls.

Donna Brazile

LifeFightingLadyYouI CanYoung

Honestly, I think the combine is a waste of time. The effort should be in film watching, physicals, and mental evaluations.

Doug Baldwin

TimeEffortThinkWatchingFilm

Leaders in an interconnected organization must be comfortable sitting in the middle of a network, not at the top of an org-chart.

Chris Fussell

OrganizationSittingComfortableTop

I'm proud of what I did in 'Daybreak.'

Coco Martin

ProudDidDaybreak

Practise things you're good at. Keep on top of things you're not so good at, but be world-class at your best. Never think, 'I'm very good at this and that, I can leave those for a bit.'

Brian O'Driscoll

GoodBestThinkYouI CanNever

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