Top 100 Quotes About Freeman: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Freeman

#1. In a democracy only will the freeman of nature design to dwell.

#2. Every man by nature is a freeman born; by nature no man cometh out of the womb under any civil subjection to king, prince, or judge.

Samuel Rutherford

#3. It is the nature of slavery to render its victims so abject that at last, fearing to be free, they multiply their own chains. You can liberate a freeman, but you cannot liberate a slave.

Louis J. Halle

#4. Man minus the Machine is a slave; Man plus the Machine is a freeman.

Henry Ford

#5. My mind is pretty made up that life for Cathy Freeman will be as an unmarried woman from now on.

Cathy Freeman

#6. I am a freeman and jolly as a beggar.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#7. I would rather be a freeman among slaves than a slave among freemen.

Jonathan Swift

#8. Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.

James F. Cooper

#9. He was the freeman whom the truth made free;
Who first of all, the bands of Satan broke;
Who broke the bands of sin, and for his soul,
In spite of fools consulted seriously.

Robert Pollok

#10. Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.

Martial

#11. Sometimes all you can do is react (Kevin Freeman)

Katie Kacvinsky

#12. They're making a movie about Barack and Michelle Obama's first date, called 'Southside With You,' and the producers say they've already cast someone to play young Barack Obama. Now, I'm not saying the president has aged a lot but that young actor is Morgan Freeman.

Jimmy Fallon

#13. In 1994, nobody could have predicted 'Shawshank' would one day be an iconic movie - and believe me, that would never have happened if Danny Glover had been Red instead of Morgan Freeman.

Bill Simmons

#14. Freeman murmured at his elbow, "Let him go. I'm working on an even bigger nuclear rocket, called Orion. We might take a cruise out to Saturn on it by the 1980s or

Gregory Benford

#15. If you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free.

Henry George

#16. I did a play once where a reviewer said, 'Martin Freeman's too nice to play a bad guy.' And I thought: 'Well, bad guys aren't always bad guys, you know?' When I see someone play the obvious villain, I know it's false.

Martin Freeman

#17. I love men that love women. Morgan Freeman, who I worked with on 'RED,' was very flattering to me. But he is flattering to all women. He is a woman-charmer.

Helen Mirren

#18. I've not worked with Martin Freeman. I've hung out with him, but I've not worked with him.

Evangeline Lilly

#19. Kindness in thinking or giving, creates profoundness and happiness. Kindness in saying creates an everlasting love- Morgan Freeman

Morgan Freeman

#20. Everyone in Tel Aviv knows Yosl Bergner. In 2006, the mayor made him a Freeman of the City. Now he carries a card which allows him to park his car anywhere with impunity. If only he could drive.

Clive Sinclair

#21. I want to keep on progressing. I definitely think acting is a long process to be one of the greats like Morgan Freeman or Jack Nicholson.

Nathan Gamble

#22. A favorite cast? Lisa Kudrow, Anthony Hopkins, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and my wife.

William H. Macy

#23. It has been well said that 'he who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.' The two are not the same, but the good citizen ought to be capable of both; he should know how to govern like a freeman, and how to obey like a freeman - these are the virtues of a citizen.

Aristotle.

#24. There's so much technology [in the Batman movies] that's unbelievable and seems unreal, so it's hard trying to get the audience to believe that it all exists. So we got Morgan Freeman to tell them that it's real. And that is why Christopher Nolan is a genius.

Michael Uslan

#25. Man hazards the condition and loses the virtues of a freeman, in proportion as he accustoms his thoughts to view without anguish or shame, his lapse into the bondage of debtor.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#26. Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

Ambrose Bierce

#27. Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education.

Robert Charles Winthrop

#28. No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

Thomas Jefferson

#29. Morgan Freeman is so class. He's so cool. He's so scary.

Jim Carrey

#30. "Half genius and half buffoon," Freeman Dyson ... wrote ... [Richard] Feynman struck him as uproariously American-unbuttoned and burning with physical energy. It took him a while to realize how obsessively his new friend was tunneling into the very bedrock of modern science.

James Gleick

#31. 99.9% of the time, the people we see worked for it. People like Morgan Freeman and Harry Connick, Jr. work every day to continue the status that they have.

Austin Stowell

#32. Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign to dwell.

Plato

#33. All things must come to pass as one, so hope should never die. There is no height or bloody might that a freeman can't defy. There is no source or foreign force can break one man who knows that his free will no thing can kill ... and from that, freedom grows.

Bobby Sands

#34. I would love to work with Morgan Freeman. I love him.

Stephanie Sigman

#35. Obviously, when you walk into a room and see people like Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman and Charles Martin Smith behind the camera, it's big time. You just try not to think about it, try and keep up, hold on for the ride.

Austin Stowell

#36. The terrible lesson Burch taught me, impressed indelibly upon my mind the danger and uselessness of asserting I was a freeman. There was no possibility of any slave being able to assist me, while, on the other hand, there was a possibility of his exposing me.

Solomon Northup

#37. Because a freeman ought not to be a slave in the acquisition of knowledge of any kind. Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. Very true. Then,

Plato

#38. She looked at her Name Paper again. A slave for thirteen years. A freeman for thirteen minutes.

Christina Daley

#39. When anybody gives you an award, it could be wrong. You've just got to bear that it mind and go ahead and enjoy it. Like Morgan [Freeman] says, it's a pat on the back, so great you'll take it and then move on.

Clint Eastwood

#40. You know, I remember watching Morgan Freeman when he did the two Alex Cross movies, and he's so confident that he's going to knock the scene dead. And I'm really confident that I can tell a good story now, so I just don't worry about things.

James Patterson

#41. I remember years ago being on the set of 'Dreamcatcher' and not only did I have such great admiration for Morgan Freeman and was just thrilled to be around him, I was struck by the fact that he seemed to be having perhaps more fun than I was at his job. And I thought, 'Well, that's very promising.'

Timothy Olyphant

#42. Someone I met years ago explained to me the difference between a personality and an actor, a personality being Eddie Murphy or Roseanne Barr, and an actor being Morgan Freeman and Alfre Woodard or Marlon Brando.

Orlando Jones

#43. Martin Freeman is a genius, he really is. He gives you every color of the rainbow in every take and it's wonderful just to play off of him and opposite him.

Lara Pulver

#44. Martin Freeman as [Bilbo] is just a revelation.

James Nesbitt

#45. Freeman Dyson said: "It is characteristic of scientific life that it is easy when you have a problem to work on. The hard part is finding your problem.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#46. He is the freeman whom the truth makes free,
And all are slaves besides.

William Cowper

#47. I liked it because it was such a dangerous script and showed just what human beings are capable of. Here was a movie in which Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt, who always win in every movie they ever do, simply don't win. I felt that was outrageous for a commercial movie.

Kevin Spacey

#48. I like being called 'Mr. Freeman' occasionally.

Martin Freeman

#49. Josh Freeman will be an MVP candidate.

Warren Sapp

#50. You don't try to do anything that Morgan Freeman does. He was the voice of God in a movie. That's Morgan Freeman!

Tyler Perry

#51. Freeman had exercised what the dapper man called his best talent: Sitzfleisch. Freeman had explained that this German word had no equivalent in English, and literally translated as "Sitflesh." It meant the ability to sit still and work quietly.

Gregory Benford

#52. I do tasks for the gods, usually things like tracking down rare items or taking someone safely to a destination.
D'Molay the Freeman Tracker

M. Scott Verne

#53. Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.

George Washington

#54. Morgan Freeman is a very giving actor.

Austin Stowell

#55. To speak his thoughts is every freeman's right, in peace and war, in council and in fight.

Homer

#56. And most of the time, when you're young and dumb - you know everything! Charles Freeman Lee bebop pianist and trumpeter

Annette Johnson

#57. I've always kinda wanted to work with Morgan Freeman, Tom Cruise, and people like that. Probably Will Smith, too.

Cayden Boyd

#58. I thank God," he used to say, "that I was born Greek and not barbarian, freeman and not slave, man and not woman; but above all, that I was born in the age of

Will Durant

#59. Towering genius ... thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freeman.

Abraham Lincoln

#60. He convinced me - Fred Freeman - to go to Hollywood and we went to Hollywood to write sitcoms. Joey Bishop actually paid my way to Hollywood.

Garry Marshall

#61. I would advise persisting in our struggle for liberty, though it were revealed from Heaven that nine hundred and ninety-nine men were to perish, and only one of a thousand to survive and retain his liberty. One such freeman must possess more virtue, and enjoy more happiness, than a thousand slaves.

Samuel Adams

#62. A letter today from a Mrs Gladys Freeman, 45 Sebastopol Terrace, Blackpool. 'Sir, reference the room you had here during the party conference season. Well, we know what it is. We know who done it. But for heaven's sake tell us where it is!

Tony Benn

#63. Mr. Freeman sighs. No imagination. What are you thirteen? Fourteen? You've already let them beat your creativity out of you!

Laurie Halse Anderson

#64. All our bright minds," Feynman said sardonically, "and we can't figure how to stop the enemy from dumping dirt on us." Freeman said with delicate precision, "We are hothouse flowers, really. Not made for the blunt edge of war." Nods

Gregory Benford

#65. I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#66. I thought, "why don't we be innovative and create something nobody had ever done before?" It was a huge hit and we immediately did a sequel with Chris Rock, Morgan Freeman, Tina Turner and Maya Angelou.

Henry Louis Gates

#67. It is an ancient belief, going back to classical antiquity, that specialization of any kind is illiberal in a freeman. A man willing to bury himself in the details of some small endeavor has been considered lost to these larger considerations which must occupy the mind of the ruler.

Richard M. Weaver

#68. We were living in a tumultuous time, when the world was upside down. Freeman produced a show that was black and white, the good guys versus the bad guys.

James MacArthur

#69. Write something insightful. Say Morgan Freeman said it. Win at internet.

Morgan Freeman

#70. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave.

James Burgh

#71. Don't be afraid of what you want. This is your time. The barriers are down.

Morgan Freeman

#72. My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher, and she used me as a guinea pig at home. My father had been a math teacher and then went to work at a steel mill because, frankly, he could make more money doing that.

Freeman A. Hrabowski III

#73. If it were purely up to me, my kids would probably be vegetarian Catholic Marxists.

Martin Freeman

#74. It's hard talking about acting, in a way, because it's like explaining a joke: I do think it loses something in the telling.

Martin Freeman

#75. Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have been born out of the religion of Nature.

James Freeman Clarke

#76. I believe in helping the planet survive, and that includes reaching out to help some of the disappearing creatures whose habitats we're destroying. It's up to us to somehow reverse that trend. I don't know how we'll achieve it, but we need to.

Morgan Freeman

#77. I have always thought it bad manners to let one's fingers stay too long in another man's snuffbox.

Anna Freeman

#78. I know very little about darkness, Mr Bowden, except that we cannot stop its coming.

Anna Freeman

#79. It's no wonder we are so messed up when it comes to walking with God. In nearly every aspect of our existence, good performance equals good reward. Except not with him. A good thing turns bad when we perform to earn God's acceptance rather than simply receive it like a gift.

Emily P. Freeman

#80. Not all art is great; most of it's rubbish.

Martin Freeman

#81. It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be
approached without some humor and some bewilderment.

Freeman Dyson

#82. It's always the case, whenever you're doing someone real, how much you want to do an impression or a characterisation. If I was doing Churchill, or Gandhi - people know exactly how they talked, walked.

Martin Freeman

#83. I'd no room left in me for thinking of trifling things. I could feel fear start up and try to take down my rage, but I'd not give it up.

Anna Freeman

#84. We all know that people who've never been on a film set think it's way more glamorous than the people who work on them.

Martin Freeman

#85. Just because it doesn't make sense 'to me' doesn't mean it doesn't make sense 'at all'.

Emily P. Freeman

#86. The unnatural ways we substitute for the natural prove not enough and soon there must be more and more unnaturalness, more and more violence.

Lucy Freeman

#87. Of the judicial department of the Government, the Supreme Court is the head and representative, and to it must come for final decision all the great legal questions which may arise under the Constitution, the laws, or the treaties of the United States.

Samuel Freeman Miller

#88. The marketplace judges technologies by their practical effectiveness, by whether they succeed or fail to do the job they are designed to do.

Freeman Dyson

#89. I'm a big believer that life changes as much as you want it to.

Martin Freeman

#90. I have played nasty people, but not everyone has seen that stuff. Before 'The Office,' I mainly got cast as little toe-rags.

Martin Freeman

#91. I don't know what my favorite film of mine is ... But I think the most important film I was in was 'Glory'.

Morgan Freeman

#92. Love: allowing everyone and everything to Be exactly as they are(the perfect and complete fulfillment of their essence and potentiality). Be Love...

Maximus Freeman

#93. Acting means living, it's all I do ...

Morgan Freeman

#94. For many scientists less divinely gifted than Einstein,the chief reward for being a scientist is not the power and the money but the chance of catching a glimpse of the transcendent beauty of nature.

Freeman Dyson

#95. Disappointment and adversity can be catalysts for greatness. There's something particularly exciting about being the hunter, as opposed to the hunted. And that can make for powerful energy.

Cathy Freeman