Quotes & Sayings About Slavery During The American Revolution

It was like a song, one of those sweet, wrenching songs that makes the hair on your arms stand up. That makes you want to throw yourself on the floor and just bawl. Or fall backward and surrender to the music utterly. — L.J.Smith

I hope we're never perfect, I say. — Anonymous

Only when women wield power in significant numbers will we create a society that genuinely works for all women ... that will be a society that works for everyone. — Anne-Marie Slaughter

Romantic comedies are built to be light. They're built for a certain buoyancy. — Matthew McConaughey

I pity the fellow who has to create a dialect or paraphrase the dictionary to get laughs. I can't spell, but I have never stooped to spell cat with a 'k' to get at your funny bone. I love a drink, but I never encouraged drunkenness by harping on its alleged funny side. — Mark Twain

It is the misfortune of all miscellaneous political combinations, that with the purest motives of their more generous members are ever mixed the most sordid interests and the fiercest passions of mean confedes. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

People will remember you better if you always wear the same outfit ... — David Byrne

Fly high... Where the only chill that cuts through you is the wind. Where your heart pounds from exhilaration not disappointment and after ascending through cloudy wisps, brushing your wings, there is only the clear blue horizon beckoning you forth.... — Virginia Alison

Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious. — Alan Minter

I could never put anything into a picture that wasn't actually there in front of me. That would be a pointless lie, a mere bit of artfulness. — Lucian Freud

Everything in life is relative. — Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

Mandela is just the eternal man. You want that man to be around forever. It's the closest thing we have to God, I think. He's the father of mankind, almost. — Anton Corbijn

An obedient man is free when in prison," Quan said. "A disobedient man is imprisoned when free. — Randy Alcorn

Some of us are darkness lovers. We do not dislike the early and late daylight of June, but we cherish the increasing dark of November, which we wrap around ourselves in the prosperous warmth of wood stove, oil and electric blanket. Inside our warmth we fold ourselves, partly tuber, partly bear, in the dark and its cold - around us, outside us, safely away from us. We tuck ourselves up in the comfort of cold's opposite, warming ourslves by thought of the cold, lighting ourselves by darkness's idea. — Donald Hall