Quotes About Rosetta Tharpe

#1. Denton struck Charley as the kind of man who never wasted energy on extra movement or idle chitchat. He was foursquare Sonny Boy Williamson and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, a Silvertone guitar, older than old school.

Natalie Baszile

#2. She had no reason to cry. She was alive, and it was a beautiful day.

Hope Ramsay

#3. This is the white man's burden, the noblesse oblige of the missionary, colonist and development professional, who feel a duty to shepherd those unfortunate enough to be trapped in unenlightenment.

Alex Perry

#4. Presents of love fear not to be ill taken of strangers.

George Herbert

#5. I have been thinking, he says. Kingdoms have been known to fall in the wake of his thoughts.

Jennifer Ellision

#6. There are two sides to this Baptism: The first is, you possess the Spirit; The second is that the Spirit possesses you.

Smith Wigglesworth

#7. Of all the questions I get asked as an undocumented immigrant in the United States, there are two - asked in various permutations via email, social media or in person - that chill me to the bone: 'Why don't you just make yourself legal?' And: 'Why don't you get in the back of the line?'

Jose Antonio Vargas

#8. Without inner change there can be no outer change. Without collective change, no change matters.

Angel Kyodo Williams

#9. It is not envy or malice, as so many people think, but utter despair that has persuaded many educational reformers to recommend the abolition of the English public schools.

Peter Medawar

#10. I don't see why I should bow my head when I could hold it high, or place it in the hands of my enemies when I can defeat them.

Jose Rizal

#11. The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines.

H.P. Lovecraft

#12. In recent times it just seems that women have been relegated to either romantic roles or fluff pieces. So the appeal, for me, is to make a picture about a real woman.

Clint Eastwood