Nicthehistorykid Quotes & Sayings

There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South. Here in this pretty world, Gallantry took its last bow. Here was the last ever to be seen of Knights and their Ladies Fair, of Master and of Slave. Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind ... — Ben Hecht

Make the subtle shift from pushing ourselves to be the best in the world, to allowing ourselves to be the best for the world. — Dewitt Jones

If I could, I'd live in the nude, like Eve in paradise. — Shakira

By 2050, at bio-extinction's current rate, between 25 per cent and 50 per cent of all species will have disappeared or be too few in numbers to survive. There'll be a few over-visited parks, the coral reefs will be beaten up, grasslands overgrazed. Vast areas of the tropics that have lost their forests will have the same damn weeds, bushes and scrawny eucalyptus trees so that you don't know if you're in Africa or the Americas. — Stuart L. Pimm

When I was 16 or 17, I saw Lenny Bruce being taken to jail. They took him off stage because he talked about race. — Paul Mooney

To me, both the Declaration of Independence and the Communist Manifesto contain underlying truths, but the West doesn't permit a middle road. — Sukarno

We were Negroes and our concern was the white man and how to get along with him; how to hold our own and raise ourselves in his esteem without for one moment letting him think he had any God-given rights that we did not also have. — John Howard Griffin

My pledge of honor upon it. — Jim Butcher

When the heart acknowledges how much pain there is in the mind, it turns like a mother toward a frightened child. — Stephen Levine

I confronted the fact that I was not only talking to a dog, but answering for one. — Claire Cook

God has unlimited resources for every great work. Are you a willing spirit? — Lailah Gifty Akita