Made It Quotes - Page 19

• All the time, I'm afraid the thing that happened that made it all right for my mother to kill my sister could happen again. I don't know what it is, I don't know who it is, but maybe there is something else terrible enough to make her do it again. I need to know what that thing might be, but I don't want to. Whatever it is, it comes from outside this house, outside the yard, and it can come right on in the yard if it wants to. So I never leave this house and I watch over the yard, so it can't happen again and my mother won't have to kill me too.

  Toni Morrison

  Mother, House, Yards

  "Beloved". Book by Toni Morrison, 1987.

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• Smokin' at the Half Note is the absolute greatest jazz-guitar album ever made. It is also the record that taught me how to play.

  Pat Metheny

  Guitar, Play, Albums

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• Anyhow, I don't think Don King's a very good man. But then again, I doubt that a good man *could* succeed in his business. I'm sure boxing was a dirty sport before he came around. He may have just made it moreso. So that's about all I've got to say about him.

  Muhammad Ali

  Sports, Kings, Dirty

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• There was concern whether SCI FI would want the show back with all the recent changes. But now, the changes have made it feel fresh, like starting over.

  Michael Shanks

  Air, Starting Over, Want

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• Feeling at peace, however fragilely, made it easy to slip into the visionary end of the dark-sight. The rose shadows said that they loved the sun, but that they also loved the dark, where their roots grew through the lightless mystery of the earth. The roses said: You do not have to choose.

  Robin McKinley

  Dark, Roots, Sight

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• "And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5′ 11". So I just picked baseball."

  Willie Mays

  Inspirational, Basketball, Baseball

  "What It Takes: Willie Mays". Interview with Alice Winkler, learningenglish.voanews.com. August 25, 2017.

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• If [God] has made it a law in the nature of man to pursue his own happiness, He has left him free in the choice of place as well as mode, and we may safely call on the whole body of English jurists to produce the map on which nature has traced for each individual the geographical line which she forbids him to cross in pursuit of happiness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Men, Law

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• I have myself, for many years, made it a practice to read through the Bible once ever year.... My custom is, to read four to five chapters every morning immediately after rising from my bed. I employs about an hour of my time.

  John Quincy Adams

  Morning, Years, Practice

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• It is not a question of starting. The start has been made. It's a question of what's to be done from now on.

  B. F. Skinner

  Done, Starting, Made

  B. F. Skinner (1974). “Walden Two”, p.257, Hackett Publishing

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• Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.

  Les Baxter

  Song, Imagination, Challenges

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• We ask why there's violence in our school but we've systematically removed God from our schools. Should we be so surprised that schools have become such a place of carnage? Because we've made it a place where we don't want to talk about eternity, life, what responsibility means, accountability.

  Mike Huckabee

  School, Mean, Responsibility

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• The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Fire, Suffering

  Thomas Carlyle (1898). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.184

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• Harry Potter achieved a very special act of actual magic: it made it completely acceptable for an adult to carry around, read and enjoy a childrens book.

  Maureen Johnson

  Book, Magic, Special

  "Let JK Rowling's magic dispel prejudice about her 'proper adult novel'" by Maureen Johnson, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2012.

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• [Mr. Gifford] made it much his business to deliver the people of God from all those false and unsound rests that by nature we are prone to make and take to our souls. He pressed us to take special heed that we took not up any truth upon trust - as from this or that, or any other man or men - but to cry mightily to God that He would convince us of the reality thereof, and set us down therein by his own Spirit in the holy word.

  John Bunyan

  Reality, Men, Convince Us

  John Bunyan (1862). “The Whole Works of John Bunyan ...: Reprinted from the Author's Own Editions”, p.20

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• My first American ancestor, gentlemen, was an Indian-an early Indian. Your ancestors skinned him alive, and I am an orphan. All those Salem witches were ancestors of mine. Your people made it tropical for them. . . . The first slave brought into New England out of Africa was an ancestor of mine-for I am a mixed breed, an infinitely shaded and exquisite Mongrel.

  Mark Twain

  People, Gentleman, Alive

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• I used to think that people who regarded everyone benignly were a mite simple or oblivious or just plain lax-until I tried it myself. Then I realized that they made it only look easy. Even the Berditchever Rebbe, revered as a man who could strike a rock and bring forth a stream, was continually honing his intentions. "Until I remove the thread of hatred from my heart," he said of his daily meditations, "I am, in my own eyes, as if I did not exist."

  Marc Ian Barasch

  Heart, Eye, Simple

  Marc Ian Barasch (2010). “The Compassionate Life: Walking the Path of Kindness”, p.114, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.

  St. Jerome

  Christian, Blood, Church

  St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.362, Jazzybee Verlag

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• How much would our churches be transformed if each of us made it a practice to thank God for others and then to tell those others what it is about them that we thank God for?

  D. A. Carson

  Christian, Practice, Thank God

  D. A. Carson (1992). “A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers”, p.87, Baker Academic

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• American Muse, whose strong and diverse heart So many men have tried to understand But only made it smaller with their art, Because you are as various as your land.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Art, Strong, Men

  STEPHEN VINCENT BENET (1928). “JOHN BROWN'S BODY”

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• But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.

  Madeleine Albright

  Leadership, Believe, Different

  "I loved what I did" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2003.

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• We're thanking God. Without him, we wouldn't have made it.

  George Harris

  God, Thank God, Made

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• They love the fact you made it, but hate the fact you got it.
  The stairway to heaven is packed...I'm in the lobby.
  Too scared to go to sleep, cause most times I often doubt my dreams.

  Big K.R.I.T.

  Dream, Hate, Rap

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• Oh am I late? No, I already graduated
  And you can live through anything if Magic made it
  They say I talk with so much emphasis
  Ooh they so sensitive

  Kanye West

  Hip Hop, Magic, Sensitive

  Song: Can't Tell Me Nothing, Album: Graduation, 2007

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• The threat from Iran is, of course, their stated objective to destroy our strong ally Israel. That's a threat, a serious threat. It's a threat to world peace; it's a threat, in essence, to a strong alliance. I made it clear, I'll make it clear again, that we will use military might to protect our ally, Israel.

  George W. Bush

  Strong, Military, Israel

  "Reports Raise Possibility of U.S. Strike on Iran". "All Things Considered" with Debbie Elliott, www.npr.org. April 9, 2006.

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• People like to focus on a narrow stereotype, like if we didn't have football then we wouldn't have made it, ... The reality is, there are a lot of football players like me who came out of the middle class.

  Jonathan Vilma

  Football, Player, Reality

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