Tolson Quotes

#1. The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said, 'A civilization is judged only in its decline.' That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players.

Nikki Giovanni

#2. When the exceptional historian comes along, you have a poet.

Melvin B. Tolson

#3. Once more I am a wanderer, a pilgrim, through the world. But what else are you?

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#4. Upon being given a Bible, President Abraham Lincoln replied, In regard to this Great book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man.

Elton Trueblood

#5. In Finland, within very broad government guidelines, teachers create their own curricula together across schools in every community and district. They don't confine collaboration to their own individual schools and to just implementing other people's ideas.

Andy Hargreaves

#6. I've been acting my whole life, which people don't realize. I just haven't had the opportunities that I've had with my dancing.

Julianne Hough

#7. Our wounds are not a measure of one individual's sad fate, but an indication of our unity with others.

Lynn C. Tolson

#8. The question is
Who will get to heaven first; the man who talks or the man who acts?

Melvin B. Tolson

#9. We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.

Minoru Yamasaki

#10. All that now seems to stand between Nigel and the prospect of the world crown is the unfortunate fact that fate brought him into this world only two years after Kasparov.

Garry Kasparov

#11. Pies mean Thanksgiving and Christmas and picnics.

Janet Clarkson

#12. Out of abysses of Illiteracy, Through labyrinths of Lies, Across wastelands of Disease ... We advance Out of dead-ends of Poverty, Through wilderness of Superstition, Across barricades of Jim Crowism ... We advance.

Melvin B. Tolson

#13. It wasn't something he made a conscious decision about...rather it was something that grew from his heart, a truth that simply was.

Karen Kingsbury

#14. It saddens me beyond my tears that love is lost within the fears.

Lynn C. Tolson

#15. Old men dream dreams; young men see visions.

Melvin B. Tolson

#16. Nature paces its change in gradual steps, and in this time of renewal, I danced in sync to the rhythm of life.

Lynn C. Tolson

#17. The power to change is already within you, ready to be discovered. Find new methods to deal with old routines. It is up to you to make the conscious choices that bring a better future.

Lynn C. Tolson

#18. You can replace negative self-talk with optimistic thoughts. It is possible to change a negative perspective on life into a positive life force if you keep a sense of proportion.

Lynn C. Tolson

#19. Not every minor inconvenience leads to a major catastrophe.

Lynn C. Tolson

#20. The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations.

Eric Hoffer

#21. No dancer, not even the wind, can outdance the sea.

Marty Rubin

#22. A civilization is always judged in its decline.

Melvin B. Tolson

#23. I think many of us live in a rut. Stuck in a groove we can't get out of, whether it's our job, family drama or the little frustrations of everyday life.

Brian Pinkerton

#24. It's up to you to make the conscious choices that bring about a better future. Find new methods to deal with old routines. You have to take charge of your life, to be accountable to yourself and responsible toward others.

Lynn C. Tolson

#25. Nature has made nothing in vain.

Delarivier Manley

#26. This voice had a quality to it, a monstrous quality, wild and untamed.

Patrick Ness

#27. The reasonable man will adjust to the demands of his environment. The unreasonable man expects his environment to adjust to his own needs. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw