Jackie Robinson Quotes

My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites. At least I had made my men realize that something could be accomplished by speaking out, and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.

Jackie Robinson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 31, 1919 - October 24, 1972

Topics

MenResultsMoreRealizeOutUnjust

I conduct myself as if I am a spaceman in Hollywood. I don't want to do anything fancy. I don't want people to send me free clothes. I just want to be grateful for this craft they let me do.

Jimmi Simpson

MyselfGratefulI AmPeopleMeFree

My daughters related to something in the Spice Girls that made them feel better about being female. They truly started to believe girls could do anything. They could be fat, thin, anything they wanted to be.

Jennifer Saunders

BelieveBetterFeelFatSpiceBeing

I love the fame and the money and the power. You have to keep working to have that.

Steve Guttenberg

LovePowerMoneyYouFameWorking

And, as soon as I could put together the, you know, three or four notes that made up, like, sort of a rock and roll lick, you know, like a Chuck Berry kind of thing, I was off and running. Just completely taken over.

Slash

TogetherRock And RollYouKnowRock

In my sobriety, I have discovered that the people I love, and who hurt me, were sick like me.

Sia

LovePeopleMeSickHurtSobriety

I think our culture is moving forward - slowly. And also, as we move forward, we're witnessing some of the old stalwarts rejecting that forward motion.

RuPaul

CultureMoving ForwardMovingForward

I hate heights, that's the most terrifying thing for me.

Jonathan Knight

HateMeHeightsMostTerrifying

My Fiat Multipla is bright green - it looks like a frog. I look like a monkey, so between the two of us, we are a hideous prospect. It's the ugliest car on the road but the most practical, and I would live and die by it.

Dominic Holland

LiveCarGreenRoadDieLook

You can either look at things in a brutal, truthful way that's depressing, or you can screw around and have fun.

David Spade

FunHave FunYouLookWayThings

Years and years ago, I was obsessed with these Pamela Love necklaces, and they had a claw, like an eagle claw, which was silver. Then I found one on this random website. I thought it was a fake claw, and when it arrived, it was a real one, cut off from the animal! It came to my house, and it was disgusting; it was a chicken claw or something.

Chiara Ferragni

LoveAnimalEagleRandomThought

And after I make a lot of money, I'll be able to afford running for office.

Christy Romano

MoneyPoliticsOfficeMakeAbleLot

L.A. hasn't changed me that much - I've not forgotten where I'm from, you know. And I need to find a haggis, but no-one seems to sell them over here.

Ashley Jensen

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