Quotes About Claude Mckay

#1. Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.

Claude McKay

#2. I love the dynamic contrast between the spontaneous shots and the more formal, pro-rock-star photos.

Bruce Pavitt

#3. I have great respect for actors like Jodie Foster and Natalie Portman who went to school the entire time they were acting. All I did was one small little independent film, and I realised I couldn't balance both lives.

Nikki Reed

#4. I'm a lucky person because I've been loved a lot. I have a great family.

Monica Bellucci

#5. I have forgotten much, but still remember The poinsiana's red, blood-red in warm December.

Claude McKay

#6. Men [sic] make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.

(Marx, 1963)

Karl Marx

#7. We are like trees. We wear all colors naturally.

Claude McKay

#8. The shivering birds beneath the eaves Have sheltered for the night.

Claude McKay

#9. Drink thy blood, Beaumanoir, and thy thirst will pass!

Barbara W. Tuchman

#10. Adventure-seasoned and storm-buffeted,
I shun all signs of anchorage, because
The zest of life exceeds the bound of laws.

Claude McKay

#11. I know the dark delight of being strange, The penalty of difference in the crowd, The loneliness of wisdom among fools ...

Claude McKay

#12. Hershey was a source of pride for the townspeople of Smiths Falls, and was the instrument that put food on many tables.

Arlene Stafford-Wilson

#13. If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, If we must die, O let us nobly die.

Claude McKay

#14. Human dignity is more precious than prestige ...

Claude McKay

#15. If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.

Claude McKay

#16. There are no little fights for me. I consider every fighter dangerous. You lose when you think a fighter is not on your level and then he comes in hungrier than you. That will never happen to me.

Leo Santa Cruz

#17. Upon the clothes behind the tenement, That hang like ghosts suspended from the lines, Linking each flat, but to each indifferent, Incongruous and strange the moonlight shines.

Claude McKay

#18. Charlie Brown: A penny! Rats! Why couldn't I have found a nickel? What good is a penny these days? Why do things like that always happen to me?! *walks off frustrated*
Lucy: Gee, he found a penny! Why don't things like that ever happen to me?

Charles M. Schulz

#19. I'm not going to suggest to a delegate at what they ought to do.

Rick Scott

#20. By identifying that which is disrupting our current moment of bliss, so too can we then take the logical and practical steps to amend the problem.

Timothy Moran

#21. Never give up on your dreams, without them life is just an existence.

Heather Welch

#22. And, hungry for the old, familiar ways, I turned aside and bowed my head and wept.

Claude McKay

#23. Off to freedom,
Wing on wing;
so, we have learned to fly.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#24. It's when you are down that you learn about your faults.

Claude McKay

#25. If we must die, O let us nobly die.

Claude McKay

#26. Deep in the secret chambers of my heart I muse my life-long hate, and without flinch I bear it nobly as I live my part.

Claude McKay

#27. If you're not tough enough to take on a fight, your best defense is to avoid initiating one".

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#28. Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.

Claude McKay