Francis J Grimke Quotes

#1. Now the night's breath responds to the sea, which I can scarcely hear from here, as it reminisces about its shipwrecks.

Joe Bousquet

#2. In L.A., I'm always going to dinner and hanging out. In New York, it's like my life just feels crazier, and there's more options.

Jessie Baylin

#3. I just think you can't be so quick to be so sure of other people's situations. Examine your own situation. You also have a lot of choices. It's not always easier for other people. It doesn't work like that.

Jennifer Close

#4. The first stage in understanding the Scriptures is to learn what a writer intended to say, what he meant for the people of his day.

Francis John McConnell

#5. When the U.S. Government shows a proper appreciation of the services of the Negro who has never failed it in every crisis of its history to do his whole duty, to shed his blood freely in its behalf ... then, and not till then, will I be heard.

Francis James Grimke

#6. People have lots of money in super, but they have no money in the bank, and the super funds are not built to help people buy property.

Harry Triguboff

#7. Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.

Francis J. Grimke

#8. The question that motivates my research is, if we can put a man on the Moon with 100,000 [people], what can we do with 100 million?

Luis Von Ahn

#9. Unless there comes to the Nation a greater emancipation than Lincoln's Proclamation effected, it is doomed, it is bound to go down.

Francis James Grimke

#10. The implausible, well-nigh-miraculous functioning anarchy that we know as New York is adorned with every excellence of Western art. It is a city of manifold suggestions, which ministers to every ambition, engenders a thousand talents, nurtures ingenuity and experimentation.

Ibn Warraq

#11. Fate smiled and destiny laughed as she came to my cradle ... - Natalie Merchant,

R.J. Palacio

#12. My brands are an extension of me. They're close to me. It's not like running GM, where there's no emotional attachment.

Jay-Z

#13. Praying leads to purity.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. Manipulating situations is one thing, but lying is another. My theory (especially with girls) is that if you don't lie, you can't be held responsible for anything bad that goes down.

Lauren Barnholdt

#15. Buy a gift for a dog, and you'll be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if don't have anything to offer to it, it won't even recognize your arrival; such are the attributes of fake friends.

Michael Bassey

#16. A pretty good test of a man's religion is how it affects his pocketbook.

Francis J. Grimke

#17. It is only what is written upon the soul of man that will survive the wreck of time.

Francis J. Grimke

#18. I was awesome wrapped in awesome smothered in more awesome.

S.C. Stephens

#19. With the farming of a verse
Make a vineyard of the curse

W. H. Auden