Top 100 Booker Quotes
#2. Folk-punk artists like This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb or Paul Baribeau were popular in the Florida punk community. I saw people early on combine roots music with more aggressive music.
Benjamin Booker
#3. New Jersey Mayor Corey Booker last night personally rescued a woman from a burning building. Or as Fox News reported it, 'black man loots house, steals white woman.'
Bill Maher
#4. I spent eight years living without heat and hot water.
Cory Booker
#5. My family is no different from yours. We may be different from the geography that we come from. Some of you all may pray differently than I do, some of you all may be from a different ethnicity, but we all have the same story.
Cory Booker
#6. The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.
Booker T. Washington
#7. These are the themes in life which are consistent in Judaism, Islam, Hinduism - of being grounded in who you are and being engaged in an unjust world.
Cory Booker
#9. Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.
Booker T. Washington
#11. The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your 'civilization'.
Booker T. Washington
#12. I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive.
Cory Booker
#13. You write a book and you finish the book. That's your job done, right? You win the Booker and you have a whole new job. You have to be the thing, right? So instead of writing the story, you somehow are the story. And that I found that sort of terrible.
Anne Enright
#14. Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
Ed Smith
#15. [On being a judge for the 1986 Booker Prize:] I got to the point where I couldn't read a laundry list without considering it for the Booker Prize.
Bernice Rubens
#16. There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
Booker T. Washington
#17. Hopelessness is a really toxic and dangerous state.
Cory Booker
#18. When I go about my own politics, I meet Tea Party supporters who I can work with in Congress, that I find common ground with. I find Tea Party supporters who won't let me get a sentence out without judging me. To say that there is a 'Tea Party supporter' is a gross generality.
Cory Booker
#19. You should be able to afford health care for your family. You should be able to retire with dignity and respect. And you should be able to give your children the kind of education that allows them to dream even bigger, go even farther and accomplish even more than you could ever imagine.
Cory Booker
#20. Don't let your inability to do everything undermine your determination to do something.
Cory Booker
#21. The more you limit your choices, thereby limiting thought, the more you can simplify your life and focus your energy elsewhere.
Cory Booker
#22. I went to school in Gainesville because it was a huge punk and folk town. So I went to class twice a week, and then I went to shows and wrote. I did a lot of music writing before I actually started playing music.
Benjamin Booker
#23. We live in a nation where, when New Jersey figures out how to do something and does it well, and shows progress, it affects other states.
Cory Booker
#24. Let's not judge. Let's draw inspiration from each other's stories - successes and failures - and realize we're all connected.
Cory Booker
#25. If you want extraordinary results you must put in extraordinary effort.
Cory Booker
#26. Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this ...
Booker T. Washington
#27. Nothing ever comes to me, that is worth having, except as the result of hard work.
Booker T. Washington
#28. I'm very concerned about U.S. food policy.
Cory Booker
#29. You cannot find what you do not seek. You cannot grasp when you do not reach. Your dreams won't come up to your front door. You have got to take a leap if you want to soar.
Cory Booker
#30. I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Booker T. Washington
#31. Remember that everyone's life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.
Booker T. Washington
#33. One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
Booker T. Washington
#34. The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.
Booker T. Washington
#35. The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
Booker T. Washington
#36. Our nation was founded with a bunch of founding legislators who joined together to move our country out of the blocks and get us started, and every generation since then has found a way to advance the ball down the field.
Cory Booker
#37. Cities can be places that represent the best of our ideals: where Americans of all different backgrounds can come together and, through their interactions, and even through their unity, spawn true American greatness.
Cory Booker
#38. I debated between law school and divinity.
Cory Booker
#39. Everybody wants to find their soul mate, and I'm no different. That's definitely what I want in the future.
Cory Booker
#40. I knew that, in a large degree, we were trying an experiment
that of testing whether or not it was possible for Negroes to build up and control the affairs of a large education institution. I knew that if we failed it wold injure the whole race.
Booker T. Washington
#41. You were not built for comfort and convenience. You were built to overcome.
Cory Booker
#42. Dream big & have huge ambition, but never forget life is lived in small moments and sustained by simple acts of love.
Cory Booker
#43. It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.
Booker T. Washington
#44. When we embraced social media, we took more control of the Newark narrative. We increased responsiveness toward residents. We drew more of our constituents in to participate in government and improve our cities.
Cory Booker
#45. Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come
Booker T. Washington
#47. I have found that the happiest people are those who do the most for others; the most miserable are those who do the least. I have also found that few things, if any, are capable of making one so blind and narrow as race prejudice.
Booker T. Washington
#48. He's a seminal force, a guru, an original creator of the New Orleans piano style.. the teacher of great players like Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint, Mac Rebenack, James Booker, and Huey Smith. All acknowledge him as The Great Master.
Jerry Wexler
#49. Democracy is not a spectator sport. It is a difficult, hard, full-contact, participatory endeavor.
Cory Booker
#50. I reject the idea that the guy who comes out of Yale and goes to work in the projects in Newark is good, and the guy who goes to work for a white-shoe law firm is bad. We're all mountain rangers. We all have peaks and valleys.
Cory Booker
#51. The mayoral mentality is incredibly valuable. I don't want to lose that.
Cory Booker
#52. Life is about where you are right now, and the choices you make.
Cory Booker
#53. I wrote down the grades I wanted in every class.
Cory Booker
#54. I'll always struggle over saying I'm a writer, even if I won the Booker Prize.
Sonya Hartnett
#55. The greatest natural resource our country has is not oil. It's not gas. It's not coal. It's the genius of our children.
Cory Booker
#56. I love talking about the challenges [Newark, NJ] has because of the way they are always brilliantly disguised as opportunities..the biggest global challenge that there is is a challenge of the spirit, a challenge of our vision, a challenge and a test of our ideals, of who we SAY we are GOING TO BE.
Cory Booker
#57. Our platform is crafted by Democrats but it is not about partisanship, its about pragmatism.
Cory Booker
#58. Stand in a way that you are always empowering people to join in, because the only way to be truly successful is not to succeed as an individual, but to succeed as a part of a community, of a country.
Cory Booker
#59. Elections have consequences. So many people want to complain, but they don't want to vote. We can talk about Hillary Clinton. We can celebrate her; we can support her, but if we don't come out and vote for her, for shame.
Cory Booker
#60. I was raised in a very religious home with two parents who were deeply involved in the black church. When I was young, I went to a small black AME church in New Jersey.
Cory Booker
#61. The great human law that in the end recognizes and rewards merit is everlasting and universal.
Booker T. Washington
#62. My grandmother from Iowa, she is dancing in Heaven at the prospect that the next president of the United States is going to be Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Cory Booker
#63. There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
Booker T. Washington
#64. Food is at the core of our lives in ways we don't always think about - how it affects our environment, how it affects our health and well-being, how it affects the expense of society, the expense of government.
Cory Booker
#65. In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.
Booker T. Washington
#66. Kids born into certain ZIP codes will most likely have certain educational outcomes. And we've got to end that. If we end that, we explode economic development.
Cory Booker
#67. We've got to be entrepreneurial; we've got to be innovative, and we've got to figure out ways of getting things done that people might think are very unorthodox.
Cory Booker
#68. You can't have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation.
Cory Booker
#69. Do not forget from whence you've come.
Cory Booker
#71. Never let your soul be silenced. Live life out loud. Every day tell your truth not with words but with actions from your heart.
Cory Booker
#72. There's too much judgment out there. Really what we need to be doing is just all of us finding our own paths towards living the best lives we can live as clearly and boldly in accordance with our own personal values. And that's what I'm trying to do.
Cory Booker
#73. At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
Booker T. Washington
#74. The gay people with whom I am close are some of the strongest, most passionate and caring people I know, and their demands for justice are no less imperative than those of any other community.
Cory Booker
#75. I don't think I ever wanted to be a journalist - I was more interested in what comes from being a journalist.
Benjamin Booker
#76. Real courage is holding on to a still voice in your head that says, 'I must keep going.' It's that voice that says nothing is a failure if it is not final. That voice that says to you, 'Get out of bed. Keep going. I will not quit.'
Cory Booker
#77. My generation of Americans, the scions of daring dreamers, the children of the fearlessly faithful and the offspring of many of history's most audacious actors - we, together, drink deeply from wells of freedom, liberty and opportunity that we did not dig.
Cory Booker
#78. In Australia, the Man Booker is sometimes seen as something of a chicken raffle.
Richard Flanagan
#79. Innovators reimagine our world in so many areas. We need them to help reimagine what government can and should be.
Cory Booker
#80. I thought that Donald Trump's ascendancy would end when he attacked John McCain, saying he's not a war hero. I found that shocking, for him to say that.
Cory Booker
#82. Minorities do not believe this country will give them a fair shake.
Cory Booker
#83. My weakness in life is two men who seduce me all the time - named Ben & Jerry.
Cory Booker
#84. Without sin, what grace has forgiveness
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#85. Equal protection under the law - for race, religion, gender or sexual orientation - should not be subject to the most popular sentiments of the day.
Cory Booker
#86. My father was not going to let me sit back and just consume my blessings. He wanted me to contribute, and to do that, you have to be mission-oriented.
Cory Booker
#88. Education is not what a person is able to hold in his head, so much as it is what a person is able to find.I
Booker T. Washington
#89. No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Booker T. Washington
#90. You don't have to be one of those people that accepts things as they are. Every day, take responsibility for changing them right where you are.
Cory Booker
#91. The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.
Booker T. Washington
#92. He (Vince Russo) is the only booker I've seen who doesn't get people over, he gets them under.
Jim Cornette
#94. We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
Booker T. Washington
#95. I have seen too many of my male friends - no matter whether they're on the football field or inside a church - bash gays and then revel in their machismo or piety.
Cory Booker
#96. Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker ... there is no escape ... people drag others or lift others up.
Booker T. Washington
#97. One of the highest and surest signs of civilization is that a people have learned to obey the commands of those who are placed over them.
Booker T. Washington
#98. My father always had doubts about the Booker prize, although they evaporated on the announcement that he had won it.
Martin Amis
#100. I had the feeling that to get into a schoolhouse and study in this way would be about the same as getting into paradise.
Booker T. Washington
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