True line Quotes

I cannot salute the flag;

I know that I am a black man in a white world.

In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919,

I know that I never had it made.

I counted everything.

I counted the steps to the road,

the steps up to church,

the number of dishes and silverware I washed...

anything that could be counted,

I did.

We are all

born ignorant

but one must work hard

to remain stupid

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

Peace cannot be kept by force;

it can only be achieved by understanding.

To keep the body in good health is a duty…

otherwise we shall not be able to keep

our mind strong and clear.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us

dreamers and indolent...

It is good to begin life poor;

it is good to begin life rich

these are wholesome;

but to begin it prospectively rich!

The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

The language of friendship

is not words but meanings.

I never went to school more than six months in my life,

but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections,

I remember how,

when a mere child,

I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me

in a way I could not understand.

I will honor Christmas

in my heart, and

try to keep it

all the year.

Where there is

righteousness in the heart,

there is harmony in the house;

when there is

harmony in the house,

there is order in the nation;

when there is

order in the nation,

there is peace in the world.

Pressure is an opportunity to show what you’re made of.

Music is a reflection of the struggles and triumphs of life.

It is with your aid, as the people,

that I think we shall be able to preserve

not the country, for the country will preserve itself,

but the institutions of the country

those institutions which have made us free,

intelligent and happy the most free, the most intelligent,

and the happiest people on the globe.

If women want any rights more than they’ve got,

why don’t they take them?

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want,

drink what you don't like,

and do what you'd rather not.

Happiness is a butterfly,

which when pursued,

is always just beyond

your grasp, but which,

if you will sit down quietly,

may alight upon you.

Someone’s sitting in the shade today

because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

The highest art is always the most religious,

and the greatest artist is always a devout person.