Bootblack Quotes & Sayings

The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact that he is a bootblack. — George Bernard Shaw

Evening came, a paw, to the gray hut by the river. — William Stafford

Unless you are as smart as Johann Karl Friedrich Gauss, savvy as a half-blind Calcutta bootblack, tough as General William Tecumseh Sherman, rich as the Queen of England, emotionally resilient as a Red Sox fan, and as generally able to take care of yourself as the average nuclear missile submarine commander, you should never have been allowed near this document. — Neal Stephenson

I'm blessed because I had my mom as a teacher - sixth through eighth grade - and she is one of the best teachers I've ever had. — Bellamy Young

I never felt comfortable with making political decisions based on whether, you know, it was the right thing to do in terms of a poll. — Jeb Bush

It is too often forgotten that the gift of speech, so centrally employed, has been elaborated as much for the purpose of concealing thought by dissimulation and lying as for the purpose of elucidating and communicating thought. — Wilfred Bion

So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you. — Anne Lamott