Banneker Quotes

#1. Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.

Benjamin Banneker

#2. I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants.

Benjamin Banneker

#3. Never abandon your vision. Keep reaching to further your dreams.

Benjamin Banneker

#4. Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.

Richard Brautigan

#5. I am of the African race, and in the colour which is natural to them of the deepest dye; and it is under a sense of the most profound gratitude to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe.

Benjamin Banneker

#6. Were there no uniforms, there would probably be no armies.

Benjamin Banneker

#7. The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.

Benjamin Banneker

#8. All philosophers should end their days at Pythia's feet. There is only one philosophy, that of unique moments.

Emile M. Cioran

#9. It is the indispensable duty of those, who maintain for themselves the rights of human nature, and who possess the obligations of Christianity, to extend their power and influence to the relief of every part of the human race from whatever burden or oppression they may unjustly labor under.

Benjamin Banneker

#10. Buddhism teaches that a craving for things outside ourselves causes an unhappy and pointless search for security. It teaches me to stop following every impulse and to learn restraint. Obviously, I lost track of what I was taught.

Tiger Woods

#11. 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

#12. When all else failed, she tried being reasonable.

Terry Pratchett

#13. You're not going to win by automatically going out there. It's hard to know what people really expect of you, and I've never tried to live up to expectations anyway. That's no way to play baseball.

Greg Maddux

#14. Let a Secretary of Peace be appointed.

Benjamin Banneker

#15. Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.

Maya Angelou

#16. Standing at my door, I heard the discharge of a gun, and in four or five seconds of time, after the discharge, the small shot came rattling about me, one or two of which struck the house; which plainly demonstrates that the velocity of sound is greater than that of a cannon bullet.

Benjamin Banneker

#17. U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.

Bono