Clifton Taulbert Quotes

#1. I think life likes to do that every now and again. Every so often it likes to dip and when you feel like you can't take any more it smoothes out again.

Cecelia Ahern

#2. A white woman has only one handicap to overcome - that of sex. I have two - both sex and race ... Colored men have only one - that of race. Colored women are the only group in this country who have two heavy handicaps to overcome, that of race as well as that of sex.

Mary Church Terrell

#3. Taking the time to build community, to get to know your people will have long-lasting benefits.

Clifton Taulbert

#4. Learning from history helps us avoid repeating its mistakes.

T.A. Uner

#5. Never be a bully. Bullying always hurts. The person you bullied may try to walk around with a smile on there face, but the pain may never go away.

Timothy Pina

#6. I've always said that you were too smart to have a profession. Smart people are hopeless in the face of anything actual. They are terrible cooks. They cannot dress themselves. They are children who need guidance and protecting.

Heidi Julavits

#7. The redwood is one of the few conifers that sprout from the stump and roots, and it declares itself willing to begin immediately to repair the damage of the lumberman and also that of the forest-burner.

John Muir

#8. Volunteerism is vital in all times; it keeps our communities alive ... and will make a difference in the lives of those who will come after us.

Clifton Taulbert

#9. What the fuck is legal in this universe? Stars eat each other, wolves eat the pigs, and Grandma fucks over Little Red Riding Hood.

Rawi Hage

#10. Books are like eggs. Somethings you have to crack them open to get anything out.

Clifton L. Taulbert

#11. I train every day of my life as they have never trained a day in theirs.

Aleksandr Karelin

#12. The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.

Albert Schweitzer

#13. Goddamn it, Joanna!' Claire called. After twelve years her voice was sharper than Jo remembered. 'I know you're standing on the stairs,' she said. 'I can see you. Get down here and help me!

Tiffany Baker

#14. There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitching of a mean merrymaker.

Nikolai Gogol

#15. I don't exercise. I'm skinny-fat. I worry about being too skinny.

Kristen Stewart

#16. Somehow, one never really runs away, or I never have, and I find that the faster I go the more catches up with me ... all the while time stands, to me, still - straight up and down like a great white sheet.

Joy Hester

#17. Your will to succeed remains one of your greatest assets.

Clifton Taulbert

#18. Their analysis clearly revealed the existence of a color line that effectively blocked black occupational, residential, and social mobility. They demonstrated that any assumption about urban blacks duplicating the immigrant experience had to confront the issue of race.

William Julius Wilson

#19. We were the only humans - the only forms of life, in fact - for hundreds of miles in each direction, unreaching and unreachable as we rocketed back towards civilisation.

Heather James