Top 100 Quotes About Selma
#1. Think of all the hate there is in Red China, then take a look around to Selma, Alabama.
Barry McGuire
#2. I worked with James Orange and Hosea Williams as a teenager, and he's portrayed in the movie by Wendell Pierce. So, for me to be able to come in, 20 years after working with them as a teenager, and to portray Reverend James Orange in 'Selma' is mind-blowing.
Omar Dorsey
#3. Selma dug her sharp elbow right into my ribs and then kicked me hard on the ankle under the table. I couldn't help giving a little squeal of pain.
Jacqueline Wilson
#4. Selma stood. "You can put a tuxedo on a goat, but it's still a goat."
"No, it's not," Bulahdeen said. "It's a completely different goat when you put a tuxedo on it.
Sarah Addison Allen
#5. There are places and moments in America where this nation's destiny has been decided ... Selma is such a place.
Barack Obama
#6. There's just something extraordinary about that Selma Hayek.
Woody Harrelson
#7. One thing 'not right' on the 50th anniversary of the Selma marches is the sad fact that the Edmund Pettus Bridge hasn't been renamed the John Lewis Bridge.
Douglas Brinkley
#8. The courage of federal Judge Frank Johnson is well-known.He was the one that gave the legal authority for the right to march from Selma to Montgomery, and he suffered dearly for it. He was ostracized and rejected. His life was threatened as a result of it.
Dick Durbin
#9. For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs. Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#10. While shooting 'Selma,' I would train on my off time with the assistant men's track and field coach at Georgia Tech.
Stephan James
#12. In 1965, as Ralph Gleason has reported, when Martin Luther King's march on Selma, Alabama, was brutally attacked by local and state constabulary, Louis Armstrong, then in Copenhagen, said after watching the carnage on television, "They would beat Jesus if he was black and marched.
Nat Hentoff
#13. With 'Selma,' I grew up in Alabama, 45 minutes away from Selma. I have gone to that commemorative march many times with my parents.
Andre Holland
#14. People forget that many of the aspects of the Selma campaign were laid out in response to the church bombing in Birmingham.
Andrew Aydin
#15. I was proud to march beside some of the most notable Civil Rights activists, such as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Rev. Jesse Jackson, and Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., from Selma to Montgomery.
Charles B. Rangel
#16. Everyone is here to say good-bye. It's what people do when they go their separate ways. They say good-bye. I've done it a lot. It goes like this.
Selma turned and walked away.
Sarah Addison Allen
#17. More often than not ... 'Selma' focuses on the one thing we don't expect in a movie about Martin Luther King Jr. - his doubts - and Oyelowo comes through with a deeply felt and quite brilliant performance,
Ty Burr
#18. He was leading those who risked their lives over that bridge in Selma, not Janice Joplin, Columbia University, or a labor union. It wasn't John Lennon that taught people about love and peaceful resistance - that job fell on the shoulders of a Jewish carpenter.
Glenn Beck
#19. A movie like 'Selma' should be a relic in a time capsule from 1965, a clue to how well we heeded King's words and how far we have advanced. Instead, it is a reminder that the 'American problem' has yet to be solved.
Richard Corliss
#20. There were three Selma-to-Montgomery marches in March 1965, and Rosa Parks had missed the first one. Parks, whose act of civil disobedience sparked the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955, moved to Detroit two years later for safety reasons.
Douglas Brinkley
#21. I had no way of predicting that Selma to Montgomery was indeed to be the last great civil rights march of the era, and that everything afterward would indeed by 'post-civil rights.
Junius Williams
#22. I can never do justice to the great feeling of amazement and encouragement I felt when, perhaps for the first time in American history, white citizens of a Southern state banded together to come to Selma and show their indignation about the injustices against the African-Americans.
Amelia Boynton Robinson
#23. There isn't much that tastes better than praise from those who are wise and capable.
Selma Lagerlof
#24. My sister, I have a sister who's 12 years older, she was always the party girl, the outrageous one.
Selma Blair
#25. It seems to me that we have to draw the line in sibling rivalry whenever rivalry goes out of bounds into destructive behavior of aphysical or verbal kind. The principle needs to be this: Whatever the reasons for your feelings you will have to find civilized solutions.
Selma Fraiberg
#26. In high school I would mess with my hair and makeup all the time.
Selma Blair
#27. Strange, when you ask anyone's advice you see yourself what is right.
Selma Lagerlof
#28. I think Vegas is the answer for pregnant people because of insomnia. It's open all the time and you go down and play your silly slots.
Selma Blair
#30. This is the hardest: to give yourself
and know that you are unwanted,
to give yourself fully and to think
that you vanish like smoke into the void.
Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger
#31. It's fun to play mom. Last I knew I was playing a 17-year-old who graduated.
Selma Blair
#32. I have no patience with anyone born after World War II. You have to explain everything to these people.
Selma Diamond
#33. I've had sex, so I'm not wearing white.
Selma Blair
#34. No one is able to enjoy such feast than the one who throws a party in his own mind.
Selma Lagerlof
#35. It was like I had a baby and I suddenly started to feel I could play anything.
Selma Blair
#36. I think getting married gave me a focus. It gave me a focus and direction I want to have in my life. And I think having another person that you make such a purposeful bond with has given me the opportunity to see how that can be with all the other aspects of my life.
Selma Blair
#37. The ways of Providence cannot be reasoned out by the finite mind ... I cannot fathom them, yet seeking to know them is the most satisfying thing in all the world.
Selma Lagerlof
#38. I think I'm more approachable with long hair. When it's short, I come across as being artsy and weird.
Selma Blair
#39. For what is man's soul but a flame? It flickers in and around the body of a man as does the flame around the rough log.
Selma Lagerlof
#40. I will do almost anything for the sake of a joke or for the sake of someone's real belief in something to help tell a story. I will not do something shocking for the sake of being nasty. If it's not hurting anyone's feelings, I'm in on the joke.
Selma Blair
#41. My first crush was Spock. I thought it didn't get any better than Spock.
Selma Blair
#42. Bathroom humor, fart, and poo poo humor in movies gets a laugh. It's a pretty easy audience, and that's been around for ages.
Selma Blair
#43. I'm open to anything. I would love to play someone completely off the wall.
Selma Blair
#44. It is not women's fault if we are so tender. It is in the nature of the lives we live. And further, it would be a terrible catastrophe if men had to live men's lives and women's also. Which is precisely what has happened today
to women.
Selma James
#45. Young horses who cannot bear the whip or spur find life hard. At every smart they start forward and rush to their destruction, and when the way is stony and difficult, they know no better expedient than to overturn the cart and gallop madly away.
Selma Lagerlof
#46. He could never go back to that place, it had been sealed off to him for ever, blown to the sky with explosives then flattened to the ground with bulldozers, built over with tarmac, lived on top of by other people.
Selma Dabbagh
#47. I had become shy of life's bustle in my solitary retreat and was apprehensive at the thought of facing the world.
Selma Lagerlof
#48. It's a sleepy, wonderful, idyllic town but there's a curse on it from 100 years ago, ... The people who died in this kind of boating accident have come back to take their revenge.
Selma Blair
#50. There is so much one would rather not believe until one has seen for oneself whether it is true.
Selma Lagerlof
#51. Mental health depends upon the maintenance of a balance within the personality between the basic human urges and egocentric wisheson the one hand and the demands of conscience and society on the other hand.
Selma Fraiberg
#52. I have no ego, I'll make fun of myself, and I'll make fun of being humiliated. I get it.
Selma Blair
#54. Anyone who has ever sat in a train as it rushes through a dark night will know that sometimes there are long minutes when the coaches slide smoothly along without so much as a shudder.
Selma Lagerlof
#55. I do turn down things that I feel aren't right for me, like when it's some kind of adolescent thing that might typecast me, but I'm not worried about it.
Selma Blair
#56. He who is sorrowful can force himself to smile, but he who is glad cannot weep.
Selma Lagerlof
#57. I think it's been confusing for people because I haven't had a linear career.
Selma Blair
#58. I went through a period of pulling away from everything - acting, people - not sure if I would ever have a voice in this business.
Selma Blair
#59. The problem with paparazzi is that it makes you question your boundaries, like, how do I say, 'That's enough guys?'
Selma Blair
#60. I never want to be a showoff or attention getter or something that, truthfully, is kind of repulsive to me, but I get uncomfortable.
Selma Blair
#61. Dog owners are out in all kinds of weather. They tell you it's small payment for the love their dogs bear them. Some love. If that dog weren't on a leash, he'd be off after another dog, a cat, or any stranger walking along the street with a wet bag of meat.
Selma Diamond
#62. I put my foot in my mouth every time I'm interviewed.
Selma Blair
#63. I don't like slugs and tentacles and calamari or anything. Actually, tentacles made me turn into a vegetarian in high school. I'm not anymore, but in high school, we were dissecting squid.
Selma Blair
#64. I have three sisters, that's it for the family.
Selma Blair
#65. A man may be outlawed for the sake of a fish net he has never seen.
Selma Lagerlof
#66. We can't just run away. It's our land. Our people. We have a duty.
Selma Dabbagh
#68. I played teen roles until high definition came out, and I could never understand it. I would go in for adult roles and be older than many of the people auditioning, but they'd cast the girl without a line on her face.
Selma Blair
#69. It is a strange thing to come home. While yet on the journey, you cannot at all realize how strange it will be.
Selma Lagerlof
#70. I think I'm under the radar enough where I don't think I'm typecast as anything yet, so I'm pretty free and clear.
Selma Blair
#71. It is not a good omen to meet a lot of cats when one sets out on a journey, so the Lieutenant spat three times for each cat, as his mother had taught him to do ...
Selma Lagerlof
#72. Having the children you want, not having the children you don't want but in order to do that you have to have the right to abortion and the right to pay equity, those two give you choice. One or the other does not.
Selma James
#73. Our survival as a human community may depend as much upon our nurture of love in infancy and childhood as upon the protection of our society from external threats.
Selma Fraiberg
#74. What would have become of me if no one had wanted to read my books? And don't forget all those who have written of me.
Selma Lagerlof
#75. I think we all feel like misfits when we open our mouth sometimes, you know?
Selma Blair
#76. I have no fears when it comes to my hair or clothes.
Selma Blair
#77. I love to laugh and well, who doesn't?
Selma Blair
#79. The United States is in many ways the biggest ghetto in the world.
Selma James
#80. Jason Lee made me laugh all the time because he's so big, and I love how goofy bodies can be.
Selma Blair
#81. Perhaps I have managed some sort of longevity because I haven't won the lead roles.
Selma Blair
#82. Nothing you do for them will harm the enemy, the real enemy, it will only draw in more support for them as a party.
Selma Dabbagh
#83. We have needed to define ourselves by reclaiming the words that define us. They have used language as weapons. When we open ourselves to what they say and how they say it, our narrow prejudices evaporate and we are nourished and armed.
Selma James
#84. Here, no mercy is shown. One hates one's fellow man to the glory of God.
Selma Lagerlof
#85. I'm flatchested, I'm short, I'm brunette, I have droopy eyes, and so people have a hard time casting me as a 'beauty.'
Selma Blair
#86. I'm one of those hovering mothers and I know it's really important to have an independent child, so I'm trying to back off, but it's hard. I love him so much, and he's so funny and cute to me.
Selma Blair
#87. I'm a working actress able to make choices based on characters rather than what I 'should' do for my career.
Selma Blair
#88. There is always a third possibility, as long as you have the ability to find it.
Selma Lagerlof
#89. It can be fairly argued that the highest priority for mankind is to save itself from extinction. However, it can also be argued th at a society that neglects its children and robs them of their human potential can extinguish itself without an external enemy.
Selma Fraiberg
#90. three of us who worked together on this book. When Bill Craig of LifeWay
Selma Wilson
#91. For, so long as there are interesting books to read, it seems to me that neither I nor anyone else, for that matter, need be unhappy.
Selma Lagerlof
#92. The only time he cries is if he's hungry. We all have nipples. I don't care who I offend; my baby wants to eat. If I can't get a cover over me quick enough, so be it.
Selma Blair
#93. All interpretations of history are propaganda for one idea or another.
Selma Dabbagh
#94. Never repeat a rumor before you have verified it. And if it is true, hold your tongue all the more.
Selma Lagerlof
#95. It is often the case with the silent children about us, that they cherish a dream which they dare not talk about.
Selma Lagerlof
#96. Part of me would love to have been a leading lady because there's a lot of glamour that goes with that and a lot of applause, but I've been very blessed.
Selma Blair
#97. It's fun to go to the movies and be scared.
Selma Blair
#98. I'm pretty much a loner and I've lived under the radar.
Selma Blair
#99. My mother dressed me always very conservatively.
Selma Blair
#100. I have very little faith that I'll ever find someone. I've had some bad luck and I've made some bad choices - not in men, but in how I've chosen to deal with relationships.
Selma Blair
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