Top 25 Taylor Branch Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Taylor Branch

#1. Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a shell?
-Yeats, The Trembling of the Veil

W.B.Yeats

#2. An ill example may kindle a flame which years of amended character cannot quench.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#3. The last burst carried the mail to the summit of the hill.

Charles Dickens

#4. If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.

Charles Studd

#5. Martin Luther King was never an up close and personal figure in the United States.

Taylor Branch

#6. I'm absolutely happy with where Louis Litt is. The writers, starting with Aaron [Korsh], have just made him into a human being.

Rick Hoffman

#7. And to me, that's why the civil rights era is about the future, not about the past, because it's great lessons of how citizens can organize to call on the patriotic heritage of the country to tackle some of our most intractable problems and we need to do that again.

Taylor Branch

#8. The branch of the vine does not worry, and toil, and rush here to seek for sunshine, and there to find rain. No; it rests in union and communion with the vine ... Let us so abide in the Lord Jesus.

Hudson Taylor

#9. Where race is involved, there is a pronounced and proven tendency in the United States for the majority culture to willfully misremember the history and turn it upside down.

Taylor Branch

#10. Martin Luther King was a leader for all Americans on our own professed values.

Taylor Branch

#11. We cannot infer from prosperity that God is pleased with us, nor can we infer from adversity that he is displeased with us.

Wilson Benton

#12. There's a natural tendency to sanitize and polish any historical icon whether it be George Washington chopping down the cherry tree or Martin Luther King saying, "I have a dream."

Taylor Branch

#13. There are an awful lot of people who despise government precisely because it opened the door for common citizenship for people of all races and all natures in the United States.

Taylor Branch

#14. The pressure to give A grades is intense. It comes from the students and increasingly from their parents as well.

Jon Appleton

#15. If Hillary Clinton can't satisfy her husband what makes her think she can satisfy America?

Donald Trump

#16. Human nature was such that individuals could respond to reason, to the call of justice, and even to the love perfection of the religious spirit, but nations, corporations, labor unions, and other large social groups would always be selfish.

Taylor Branch

#17. It seems an obvious thing to say, but you should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential terrorists, just as we should not imagine that you Americans are all undercover assassins.

Mohsin Hamid

#18. Younger guys now are all working out, and you find that if everyone's doing it and you're not doing it, you're going to be left behind.

Tiger Woods

#19. I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.

Taylor Branch

#20. More Americans die in gun homicides and suicides in six months than have died in the last 25 years in every terrorist attack and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq combined.

Nicholas D. Kristof