145th Street Quotes & Sayings

When I sleep I sleep and do not dream because it is as well that I am what I seem when I am in my bed and dream. — Gertrude Stein

Harlem was a development, a developer's dream and a place where residents had more space and more amenities than ever before. The subway reached 145th street about 1904, and it seemed that Harlem's destiny was to become largely a preserve of successful ethnics relocating and arriving. Then, overnight, the bust took place. — David Levering Lewis

Life follows a rhythm and we hold the drum. — Tom Althouse

I took part in what was actually the last eruption of Marxist internationalism. — Christopher Hitchens

The photographer proceeds, via the intermediary of the lens, to a point where he literally takes a luminous imprint, a cast ... [But] the cinema realizes the paradox of moulding itself on the time of the object and of taking the imprint of its duration as well. — Andre Bazin

A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived. — Vanessa Redgrave

One thing we might do is to try day by day to grasp something which is the simplest and yet the hardest thing for any of us to grasp: that the gospel is true; that growth in the Christian life is simply growth in seeing that the gospel is true; that Jesus Christ is the preeminent reality of all things. — John Webster

A weak man's always in a hurry to punish somebody, so he can show how tough he is. — Robert Ferrigno

Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase. — Martin Luther King Jr.