Hurricane Carter Quotes & Sayings

Someone once told me his idea for surviving a crash of civilization was to be a lone wolf, heading for the hills, with his rifle and knife, living off the land. "Nowadays, I'm more interested in staying behind and helping others," he said, "like after Hurricane Katrina. Coming together and rebuilding something that can last."

"How about BEFORE a disaster?" I asked.

"Even better. — Michael Carter

Didn't people call New Year's the loneliest night on the calender? She took comfort in knowing somewhere on the planet, someone might be as miserable as she was. — Mitch Albom

This is why one will find in our nation's Capitol countless images of gods and goddesses, along with zodiacs, the Washington Monument Obelisk, reflecting pools, and a whole cacophony of pagan imagery. There are no monuments to Jesus Christ, the apostles, or anything having to do with the Christian faith. — Thomas Horn

Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a taxing-machine; to the contented, a machine for securing property. Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable. — Thomas Carlyle

With a chance to make it good somehow, hey, what else can we do now? Except roll down the window, and let the wind blow back your hair. — Bruce Springsteen

In abstract painting, I worried about the limited range of possibilities that, as time went on, became increasingly important to me. I wanted to express or deal with differences that an all-over paint and canvas 'presence' neutralized. — Richard Diebenkorn

Work enthusiasm.
Give your very best in all that you do.
It is a great gift to yourself and world. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The ball is round, the game lasts ninety minutes, and everything else is just theory. — Sepp Herberger

Up to a certain point anxiety is good, for it promotes action. Beyond that point we freeze any fixed attitudes or rush about without thinking deeply from one decision to another. — Jules Henry

What you think, is what you are

What goes around, comes around

Happiness begins with you and your thoughts — Pattimari Sheets Cacciolfi

The reason for the season is Christ. Let's not forget that. — Toni Sorenson

Death is something that happens to others, you think, until it happens to you. — Roger Rosenblatt

Another weird thing about funerals: Wear black but kill something as colorful as flowers to decorate. — Harlan Coben

Denzel has been that leading man, but it took him a while to get to Training Day and Hurricane Carter. — Shemar Moore

No politician was more maligned than Ronald Reagan. — Michele Bachmann

It doesn't do to be sentimental about cats; the best ones don't respect you for it — Susan Howatch

Sometimes we chose the books we want to read and sometimes they chose us. — Rubin "Hurricane" Carter Dr.