John Lewis Selma Quotes & Sayings

You do magic by learning formae which are like shapes in your mind that have an effect on the physical universe. — Ben Aaronovitch

Regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going. — Wes Montgomery

Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant. — Caecilius Statius

First time I got arrested, I knew somehow and some way, we would succeed. To go on the Freedom Ride to be beaten and left bloody and unconscious, to be beaten on that bridge in Selma, have a concussion - I thought that I was going to die on that bridge. But somehow and some way, I lived to tell about what happened, and I've seen some of the fruits of the labor of so many people, and people must understand that. — John Lewis

A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up. — Leonard Maltin

Under Small's influence Jefferson came to share Immanuel Kant's 1784 definition of the spirit of the era: "Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity," Kant wrote.21 "Immaturity is the inability to use one's understanding without guidance from another. This immaturity is self-imposed when its cause lies not in lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it without guidance from another. — Jon Meacham

I was born and raised in Maryland and attended the public school system. — Brendan Iribe

John Lewis is such a remarkable human being. Literally, such a beautiful human being. I remember the first time I met him. We were in the middle of a scene and [Selma director] Ava DuVernay calls, "Cut," and then he literally just came in. He just came walking in.I just froze. I can't explain the feeling. Seeing somebody who was literally a living hero. He was a hero. — Stephan James

One thing 'not right' on the 50th anniversary of the Selma marches is the sad fact that the Edmund Pettus Bridge hasn't been renamed the John Lewis Bridge. — Douglas Brinkley

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. — Thomas Paine