Sammulous Americas Got Quotes & Sayings

I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had to go somewhere and do something to redeem my being alive. — Richard Wright

When trust is gone, a man no longer believes in humanity." ~Ty Callahan~ — S.J.D. Peterson

The more we want it to be true, the more careful we have to be. No witness's say-so is good enough. People make mistakes. People play practical jokes. People stretch the truth for money or attention or fame. People occasionally misunderstand what they're seeing. People sometimes even see things that aren't there. — Carl Sagan

Things which stimulate my curiosity are pretty far removed from the practical and therefore from classification. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

I'm now doing three things: concerts, conducting, and teaching, and they each support each other. I learn to see things from different perspectives and listen with different ears. The most important thing that you need to do is really listen. — Itzhak Perlman

Without a complex knowledge of one's place and without the faithfulness to one's place on which such knowledge depends, it is inevitable that the place will be used carelessly, and eventually destroyed. Without such knowledge and faithfulness, moreover, the culture of a country will be superficial and decorative, functional only insofar as it may be a symbol of prestige, the affectation of an elite or "in" group. — Wendell Berry

My father put his life in God's hands, and he encouraged us, his children, to believe that if we had absolute faith, God would take care of the rest. Miracles would happen. — Amy Tan

Part of being an artist is that you are always concerned you don't have what it takes. It ... keeps us honest. — Lupita Nyong'o

My mom just told me it's impossible to know what's going to happen in life. Except with breakfast, cause she eats the same thing every day. — Bob Saget

As you get older, you have more and more layers of experience to forgive, more layers of heartbreak, more layers of what you might think of as failure. — Marianne Williamson

It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls — Aristophanes

There are self-made millionaires - their aspiration is first to make money. But the once that goal is achieved, they have to look for something and sometimes they become patrons of art or museums. And that is how the world should go. — Tadao Ando

You would be surprised how many directors don't know what they want. They might not know what they want until they see it, they might know what they want but no idea how to get it out of the actor, then you've both got a problem. — Ian McKellen