James Weldon Johnson Most Famous Quotes & Sayings

Life's lessons are designed that we would rise from 'The Fall' (or our failures) and be restored to our Divine nature. — Maya Emmett

We call that the American dream, but in fact, it's a universal dream of a better life that people have all over the world. It is a reminder that every country in the world has rich people. What makes America special is that we have millions and millions of people that are not rich, that through hard work and perseverance are able to be successful. — Marco Rubio

You don't think you're a vampire, Sam. That kind of thing you know. — Jennifer Loiske

Southerners smile more than other Americans. — John Shelton Reed

It brings spiritual warfare and suffering for the priest as he identifies with those who suffer, and shares the frustrations, anger, and incomprehensibility of that suffering in what it does to those who suffer. The priest shares in these struggles of his suffering people, the uncertainties it brings, the sense of divine abandonment it induces, and the loneliness caused. — Arthur Middleton

To make a library It takes two volumes And a fire. Two volumes and a fire, And interest. The interest alone will do If logs are few. — Carolyn Wells

Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plow. The trick is just to wake thmem up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

I think of the hundreds of lights dancing across the night sky. "I knew you were watching. I know it sounds stupid, but I felt you with me, and then when you sent that letter describing that night ... " I drop off, unable to find the right words to explain the emotion. — Katie McGarry