Barbara Jordan Quotes

What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.

Barbara Jordan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: politician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 21, 1936 - January 17, 1996

Topics

GoodSimplePeopleAmericaWant

A bad Tweet can cause scandal, shame, even possibly end a politician's career.

Meghan McCain

EndBadCareerShamePolitician

I don't believe that an animation studio should be an executive-driven studio.

John Lasseter

BelieveAnimationStudioShould

There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.

Maurice Sendak

MusicAlwaysPiecesBooksAttached

I've been talking about the centrality of libraries in our information society for a while now.

Matthew Lesko

SocietyTalkingInformationNowBeen

It gives me a chance to explore so many dynamics - that's what we actors dream of doing. So, I love playing the villain.

Angela Robinson

LoveMeVillainChanceDoingDream

Women have to risk civil disobedience for their rights.

Sonia Johnson

WomenRiskRightsDisobedienceCivil

I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.

Shimon Peres

GoodSportsHistorySchoolHappy

After that I couldn't show my face outside. I lost my identity and balance. I was still living with my parents, and they were my only friends. For so many people, this thing with the nurse was confirmation that I must be mad or mentally ill.

Mathias Rust

BalanceIdentityParentsPeopleFace

The values, the programs, the formula, the determination, and the patriotism responsible for America's past success are still here to be tapped.

Michael Mandelbaum

SuccessDeterminationPatriotismPast

Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react.

Derek Jacobi

FaithTimeImaginationYourselfYou

The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.

Derek Walcott

HistorySugarOverAbandonedRuins

Linda's in all the songs. 'Sunshine Superman,' 'Hampstead Incident,' 'Young Girl Blues'... Linda's the muse.

Donovan

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