Adjusting My Crown African American Quotes & Sayings

I'm American. Like I told you. And I'm American and not something else because they failed that day. They couldn't do it and most of them probably knew they couldn't do it before they even started, but they went anyhow. There's honor in that. I don't reckon there's much honor left in the world now, but they had it that day and I honor them on both sides by knowing what I can about it. Much as I can. — Lance Weller

Common sense is usually lack of imagination, and imagination is usually lack of common sense. — Evan Esar

Scouting is nothing less than applied Christianity. — Robert Baden-Powell

And it's one reason why I don't go to a lot of movies - they're more and more dominated by corporate values and fiscal concerns as opposed to cinematic concerns. — Jeffrey Wright

It's a hard concept to hold on to--the idea that there was a time before us. A time before time.

In the beginning there was nothing. And then there was everything. — Nicola Yoon

Of all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious. — Joseph Stalin

As complicated as joint custody is, it allows the delicious contradiction of having children and maintaining the intimacy of life-before-kid s. — Delia Ephron

I don't know about you, but I find it exhilarating to see how vague psychological notions evaporate and give rise to a physical, mechanistic understanding of the mind, even if it's the mind of the fly. — Gero Miesenbock

See Monsieur Geborand, buying a pennyworth of paradise. — Victor Hugo