Quotes About Benjamin Banneker

#1. I'm living a dream I never want to wake up from.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#2. Well, everybody has a bodyguard in Brazil.

Bob Varsha

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

Benjamin Banneker

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

Benjamin Banneker

#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. Men hear loud voices, but they listen to strong words.

Toba Beta

#9. And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.

Beau Bridges

#10. 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

#11. Intoxication, like sexual euphoria, is the privilege of the human animal.

Roman Payne

#12. I married someone whom I was close friends with first. I think that was a really good move.

Cindy Crawford

#13. Once you've actually died on stage ... I mean, how do you top that?

Stiv Bators

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

Benjamin Banneker

#15. 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

#16. The sky is absolutely empty. Beautifully pure and empty.

As if the architects and builders would live in all the houses they built! Or could live in them all. It's obvious, it stares you in the fact. There must be a God and he can't know anything about us.

John Fowles

#17. I believe in one thing: that anyone who is able to do something good for someone, I mean, should be praised.

Ravi Shankar

#18. I believe alot of churches in America are not churches.

Paul Washer

#19. I had an existential crisis at the Oscars, sitting next to Sean Penn and Meryl Streep, and being like, 'What am I doing here? I don't belong here'. I felt like it could all be taken away.

Amy Adams

#20. Truth is in all things, even partly, in error.

Jean-Luc Godard

#21. Let a Secretary of Peace be appointed.

Benjamin Banneker

#22. 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

#23. When all the people covered in tattoos turn about 70 years old, they're going to look like a strange race of melting clowns.

Dana Gould