Chartacter Quotes

I looked up my family tree and found out

I was the sap.

Nobody made a greater mistake than

he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

If music be the food of love,

play on.

The leading rule for the lawyer,

as for the man of every calling,

is diligence.

Truth will ultimately prevail where

there is pains to bring it to light.

Life is not measured by the breaths we take,

but by the moments that take our breath away.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

I'm a pretty nice dude.

I have fun,

and people take it the wrong way.

Nothing is impossible,

the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball,

I can only marvel at the many black players

who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because

they had nowhere else to go.

My mother was my first country,

the first place I ever lived.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre,

but they are more deadly in the long run.

Before I would hurt a child,

I would slit my wrists.

If you want to achieve

greatness stop asking

for permission.

There is a time for everything,

and a season for every purpose under heaven.

Each time a man stands up for an ideal,

or acts to improve the lot of others,

he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana

is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl;

we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg

than by smashing it.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid,

and I think a great deal of that grew out of

the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

I want to do films and have my name mentioned

next to Wes Anderson and Quentin Tarantino.

I don't want my name mentioned next to other rappers at all.

I've heard there are troubles of more than one kind;

some come from ahead,

and some come from behind.

But I've brought a big bat.

I'm all ready, you see,

now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!