American Revolutionaries Quotes

#1. By 1776 the American revolutionaries had defined "despotism" down to the level of taxing tea and quartering soldiers. At

Steven Pinker

#2. Barsavi knew how to create expectations, Locke, and how to use those expectations to mislead those who would harm him.

Scott Lynch

#3. The law cannot do it for us. We must do it for ourselves. Women in this country must become revolutionaries." - Shirley Chisholm, the first African American woman elected to the U.S. Congress

Jessica Bennett

#4. I love to be a vessel through which characters can come through. And if I can move an audience with my work, then I've done my job.

Rutina Wesley

#5. My parents were both very musically inclined, they were both songwriters and musicians, so we grew up in the house singing music together, and R&B had a huge strong arm in the foundation of my career.

Jesse McCartney

#6. Just now the lilac is in bloom
All before my little room.

Rupert Brooke

#7. My mom is such a big supporter of mine. She still is, and always was. So I got the sort of encouragement from that side of the family.

Billy Bob Thornton

#8. I view the work I've done related to statistics and economics as, roughly speaking, how to do something without having to do everything.

Lars Peter Hansen

#9. What was he like afterwards?
Totally adorable-he fell asleep right on top of me!
What was he like afterwards?
I thought he'd died. No, Really! He fell asleep-I had to roll him off of me so i could breathe

Pat Brisson

#10. If you're wondering where the Lord is at this very hour, I tell you He's alive and well with resurrection power!

Carman

#11. Unwarranted search and seizure by the government officials was unacceptable to the American revolutionaries. Shouldn't it be unacceptable in the digital age, too?

Heather Brooke

#12. The dialectic cannot stop short before the conceptsof health and sickness, nor indeed before their siblings reason and unreason.

Theodor Adorno

#13. Political scientists and professors are the new clergy; the clergy of oppression.

A.E. Samaan

#14. Don't let thoughts of me hold you back. Just do what you want to do. Otherwise, I might end up taking you with me, and that is the one thing I don't want to do. I don't want to interfere with your life.

Haruki Murakami

#15. One thing I cannot stand is when people say, 'Hi, how are you?' and they don't wait to hear how I am. They're just going through the motions. I say to people: 'Keep it human. Keep it alive. Don't turn into a robot.' You have to hear what the other person is saying clearly.

Judith Jamison

#16. The American revolutionaries believed in the power of the word. But they had only word of mouth and the printing press. We have the Internet.

Robert Darnton