Chartacter Quotes

Men don't pay attention to small things.

I want to make as much money as I possibly

can so that when my day comes,

my mother and sister is fine.

My close friends are fine.

They don't have to worry about anything ever again.

Today, Negroes play on every big league club

and in every minor league.

With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life,

we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in.

In baseball or out,

we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality

we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven.

Leisure is the mother of philosophy.

Years ago I went into my laboratory and said,

'Dear Mr. Creator, please tell me what the universe was made for?'

The Great Creator answered,

'You want to know too much for that little mind of yours.

Ask for something more your size, little man.'

I can accept failure,

everyone fails at something.

But I can’t accept not trying.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten

what one has learned in school.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

Diversification is protection against ignorance.

You learn from mistakes,

but you don’t repeat them.

You’re my boy,

Blue!

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.

Heroism on command, senseless violence,

and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism

how passionately I hate them!

Nothing is at last sacred but

the integrity of your own mind.

Every film should have its own world,

a logic and feel to it that expands beyond the story itself.

Fan the sinking flame

of hilarity with the

wing of friendship;

and pass the rosy wine.

We must accept finite

disappointment, but never

lose infinite hope.

Training is everything.

The peach was once a bitter almond;

cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship,

I am disposed to endulge the professors of,

Christianity in the church,

that road to heaven which to them,

shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.

Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge

among the people.