Importation Of Slaves Quotes

#1. Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves.

Albert Bushnell Hart

#2. I felt once again the unease of arriving at night in an unknown city
that faint sour panic which seems to cling to a place until one has found oneself a bed.

Laurie Lee

#3. Humor is the best means of surviving in a difficult world.

Ogden Nash

#4. Survival...could only be a social achievement, not an individual accident.

Eugene Weinstock

#5. Gather the stars if you wish it so Gather the songs and keep them. Gather the faces of women. Gather for keeping years and years. And then ... Loosen your hands, let go and say good-bye. Let the stars and songs go. Let the faces and years go. Loosen your hands and say good-bye.

Carl Sandburg

#6. I grew up with white parents, and until after college, it was a lot of confusion, especially because I grew up in an all-white area. So I never looked around and saw anyone who looked like me.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

#7. (Alfred's sister, Olive Deering, was famous in those years for her sentiments during her filming of the endless DeMille epic The Ten Commandments: "Who do I have to fuck to get off this picture?")

Lee Grant

#8. I say 'here's the thing' a lot, both to alert people that I'm about to say something important and to give myself a moment to figure out what that important thing might be, because my head is so often completely empty.

Walter Kirn

#9. If you're not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.

Bobby Knight

#10. My father was a very special human being. He was brilliant in academics, sports and the arts. He wrote, performed and directed plays in English and Hindi/Urdu at his regiment.

Ajay Mehta

#11. We have all been found guilty of being human. There are worse crimes.

Joe Hill

#12. Hey John, I have an early version of The Last Hurrah you left in a class we shared back in 1994. I'd gladly return it to you.

John-Patrick Scott

#13. Made in the image of a perfect relationship, we are relational to the core of our beings and filled with a desire for transcendent purpose. We long to be an irreplaceable part of a shared adventure.

John Eldredge