“Just as the Huns under their king Attila created for themselves a thousand years ago a name which men still respect, you should give the name of German such cause to be remembered in China that no Chinaman will dare look a German in the face.” MenGivingShouldYearsLooksStillsFacesNamesCausesKingsThousandYears AgoDareChinaRememberedThousand Years Author:Wilhelm II
“I made a picture called Super Mario Bros., and my six-year-old son at the time - he's now 18 - he said, 'Dad I think you're probably a pretty good actor, but why did you play that terrible guy King Koopa in Super Mario Bros?' And I said, 'Well Henry, I did that so you could have shoes,' and he said, 'Dad, I don't need shoes that badly.'” ThinkingNeedsYearsWellsMadeSaidPlayGuyActorsSonKingsDadTerribleSixShoesGood ActorsSix Year OldsBrosMarioSuper Mario Author:Dennis Hopper
“My grammar school graduating class in 1941 had a little party for 13 or 14 year-old kids. [Trumpeter] King Kolax's band played for the party and Gene Ammons was playing tenor saxophone with the band. And that's when I said, "That's it!" Just like that, tunnelvision ever since.” YearsLittlesSaidKidsSchoolPartyClassKingsBandGraduatesGenesGrammarSaxophoneTenorsGrammar SchoolGraduating Class Author:Johnny Griffin
“I know Busta Rhymes for about a year now and we did a song together and we got an album together which is called "Godzilla vs. King Kong", which is going to be me and Busta. That was really the first time we rocked together on stage.” KnowsYearsFirstsTogetherSongStageKingsFirst TimeAlbumsRhymeGodzillaKing Kong Author:Bone Crusher
“Martin Luther King was only an activist for 13 years and every year he changed and every year he became more radical. By the end he was calling for revolution. People don't know this because they go to too many prayer breakfasts on his birthday.” PeopleKnowsYearsEndsPrayerChangedRevolutionKingsCallingRadicalActivistBreakfastLuther Author:Bill Ayers
“I think what a lot of people don't realize is how much being the leader of this movement weighed upon him. After all, he [Dr. Martin Luter King] was only 39 years-old when he was assassinated, and only 36 during the Selma campaign. He always seemed older than he actually was, and I believe part of that had to do with just how much life he had to live in order to lead this movement.” PeopleThinkingYearsBelieveOrderI BelieveRealizingLeaderMovementKingsCampaignsDrs Author:David Oyelowo
“For many years, I believed racism in America was dead and that opportunity existed for all. My beliefs were shaken when the Rodney King officers were acquitted.” YearsAmericaOpportunityBeliefKingsRacismOfficersRacism In America Author:John Hope Bryant
“McDonald's offers a king's ransom to any hip-hop artist who is able to put Big Mac into a song. MTV - and more to the point, Viacom - is succeeding in extending a teenage life to twenty-nine or even thirty-one years old. It is about extending this market and removing any intelligent substance in the music.” YearsBigsAbleArtistSongKingsOffersSucceedTwentiesIntelligentHip HopNineHipsSubstanceThirtyHopsTeenageMcdonaldsMacsExtendingMtvRansomHip Hop ArtistTeenage LifeBig Mac Author:Chuck D
“You know, I'm allowed to f--king date, I haven't seen this guy in three years. We're in the middle of a divorce. For a woman, she has to wait. For a man, who cares? That's what it's painted as.” KnowsMenYearsCareGuyThreeWaitingMiddleHavensKingsDivorceThree YearsWho CaresThis Guy Author:Khloe Kardashian
“I want to make movies just like "King Kong." You know, dinosaurs, big gorillas - it's everything that a nine year-old boy would fall in love with.” KnowsWantYearsBigsFallBoysKingsFalling In LoveNineDinosaursNine YearsGorillasKing Kong Author:Peter Jackson
“Will I have to explain to my daughter that her brother is gonna make more money doing the exact same job because he's a man? If they both played sports since they were three years old, they both worked just as hard, but because he's a boy, they're gonna give him more money? Like, how am I gonna explain that to her? In tennis we've had great pioneers that paved the way - including Venus [Williams], who fought so hard for Wimbledon to pay women the same prize money they pay men, and Billie Jean King, who is one of the main reasons Title IX exists.” IfsMenWayGivingYearsHardReasonJobsThreeSportsPayBoysBrotherKingsDaughterIncludingTitlesTennisPrizeMy DaughterThree YearsMore MoneyPioneersVenusThree Year OldsWimbledonPrize Money Author:Serena Williams
“The other cool thing is, even with Jessica [Johnson], or Daredevil, I had taken a break from those characters for a while in the comics, so I can enjoy the shows without the agita. I completely love the Daredevil show. I feel no physical connection to it, because it was 10 years ago since I wrote that comic, so I can just enjoy it. And when people connect it in a positive way to me, I go, "Well, that's very f - king flattering!"” PeopleWayFeelsYearsWellsI CanCharacterShowsEnjoyBreakTakenKingsYears AgoConnectionsComicJohnsonFlatteringCool ThingsJessicaDaredevil Author:Brian Michael Bendis
“I was a 12 year old kid in Northern Idaho listening to Billie Holiday and Lena Horne and Sarah Vaughan and Nat King Cole. This whole genre of music is a part of who I am.” YearsWholeKidsListeningKingsMusic IsWho I AmGenreHolidayIdahoGenres Of Music Author:Cheyenne Jackson
“One of the books that has guided me in the last ten years of my life to help me to be that leader is the Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh's Being Peace. He's a Vietnamese monk. He was nominated for a Peace Prize by Dr. Martin Luther King.” YearsBookHelpingLastsLeaderKingsTenBuddhistHelp MePrizeDrsMonkLutherVietnameseDr Martin Luther KingThich Nhat HanhBuddhist Monk Author:Sandra Cisneros
“I heard of Martin Luther King Jr. when I was 15 years old. I heard of Rosa Parks. And I met Dr. King in 1958 at the age of 18. I met Rosa Parks ... But to pick up a fun comic book - some people used to call them "funny books" - to pick this little book up, it sold for 10 cents, 12 pages or 14 pages? 14 pages I digested. And it inspired me. And I said to myself, "If the people of Montgomery can do this, maybe I can do something. Maybe I can make a contribution."” PeopleIfsYearsLittlesSaidI CanBookAgeUsedFunCan DoHeardKingsMetsPagesPicksInspiredComicParksContributionCentsComic BookDrsLutherCan Do SomethingRosaMontgomeryFunny Book Author:John Lewis
“I changed my major to English and I went off to Fort Collins. And within the first couple of weeks, I noticed that they were having auditions for a production in their theater department. They were going to stage Jean Anouilh's Becket, which was a film I loved, with Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton. So I went down and auditioned, and I got the role. I got the Peter O'Toole part. So here I was, a 19-year-old playing King Henry.” YearsFirstsFilmRolesWeekStageChangedCoupleKingsMajorsTheaterDown AndProductionsDepartmentPeterAuditionsFortsKing Henry Author:Keith Carradine
“There exists in the world today, and has existed for thousands of years, a body of enlightened humans united in what might be termed, an Order of the Quest. It is composed of those whose intellectual and spiritual perceptions have revealed to them that civilisation has a secret Destiny... The outcome of this 'secret destiny' is a World Order ruled by a king with supernatural powers[the antichrist]. This king was descended of a divine race; that is, he belonged to the Order of the Illumined; for those who come to a state of wisdom then belong to a family of heroes-perfected human beings.” WorldYearsHumansStatesBodyMightTodaySpiritualOrderHuman BeingsUnitedSecretRaceDestinyDivineKingsHeroPerceptionIntellectualOutcomesEnlightenedQuestsWorld TodayCivilisationWorld OrderAntichristSupernatural Powers Author:Manly Hall
“I think it is worse [in 2015] for a mid-list author such as myself. You either have to sell like Stephen King or go with the small presses where there is no money. I was lucky to have been in the right place and time for many years.” ThinkingYearsHas BeensKingsLuckySellsPressesListsRight PlaceNo MoneyPlace And Time Author:W. P. Kinsella
“Saul Bellow has that character in Henderson the Rain King say: "I want, I want, I want!"9 I remember reading this passage years ago and thinking, yes, that's the human.” ThinkingWantYearsHumansCharacterRememberReadingKingsRainYears AgoPassages Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“I mean the prime case that you can look at is Martin Luther King, who was only an activist for 13 years. But every year, he became deeper, more concerned, connecting more issues.” YearsLooksMeanCasesIssuesKingsConcernedDeeperPrimeActivistConnectingLuther Author:Bill Ayers
“If you read Martin Luther King speeches and sermons in the last two years of his life - you might want to - when I read these to my students, they think it's Malcom X because it's so radical. And if you read nothing else - if your viewers read nothing else - then the April 4, 1967, speech at Riverside Church called "Beyond Vietnam," that's where he says the greatest purveyor of violence on earth is my country. And he connects the triplets of evil, racism, militarism, and materialism, and that connection makes him a radical.” IfsThinkingWantYearsTwoCountryMightEarthLastsEvilChurchViolenceStudentsKingsSpeechRacismConnectionsRadicalTwo YearsMaterialismVietnamViewersSermonsLutherAprilMilitarismKings SpeechTripletRiverside Author:Bill Ayers
“We want to use cash. The reason we haven't used our cash two years ago, we just didn't find things that were that attractive. But when people talk about cash being king, it's not king if it just sits there and never does anything. There are times when cash buys more than other times, and this is one of the other times when it buys a fair amount more, so we use it.” PeopleIfsWantYearsDoeTwoReasonUseUsedHavensAmountKingsFairsYears AgoAttractiveTwo YearsCashTwo Years Ago Author:Warren Buffett
“10 years ago the black man knew what his condition was. And today, because of the world revolution that's taking place all over this earth, the black man would be fighting for what he knows is his by right, but the movement on the part of [Martin Luther] King and the others had done nothing but slow down the militancy that is inherent in the nature of the black man.” KnowsMenWorldYearsDoneWould BeTodayEarthFightingBlackConditionsMovementRevolutionKingsYears AgoInherentSlow DownLutherMilitancy Author:Malcolm X
“Now the goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who has brutalized them for four hundred years.” MenGivingYearsGoalChanceWhiteFourKingsHundredRestaurantsDrsWhite ManLutherDr Martin Luther King Author:Malcolm X
“The goal of Martin Luther King is to get the Negroes to forgive the people the people who have brutalized them for four hundred years, by lulling them to sleep and making them forget what those whites have done to them, but the masses of black people today don't go for what Martin Luther King is putting down.” PeopleYearsDoneTodayGoalBlackSleepForgetFourKingsMassHundredForgivingBlack PeopleLuther Author:Malcolm X
“I ran into Stephen King once in New York a few years ago and outside the Carlyle and he said, "You're in the pink." Which sounded so Stephen King. He's doing well I think after his accident and all of that, years and years ago.” ThinkingYearsWellsSaidNew YorkKingsYears AgoAccidentsRan Author:Kathy Bates
“[The Book of the Law]was lost for so many years. And then Josiah decided to celebrate Passover. The text says that "The Passover sacrifice had not been offered in that way ... during the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah" [2 Kings 23:22]. What do you mean? Not in the days of David and Solomon? Never before? And what of the days of the prophets? What happened? That's what I'm anguishing over. If the Book of the Law could be forgotten for so many years, who knows what was done to it during those years? Maybe it was lost later, too.” IfsKnowsWayYearsMeanBookDoneLawLostHappenedSacrificeKingsDecidedForgottenIsraelCelebrateProphetSolomonJudah Author:Elie Wiesel
“I think that for many of us, the years of the Civil Rights movements - Martin Luther King, Bobby Kennedy running for president in 1968 to end the war and so forth - these were defining moment in terms of trying to hold government accountable and have a level of responsibility and truth-telling.” ThinkingTryingYearsWarEndsMomentsGovernmentRunningPresidentTermLevelsResponsibilityRightsMovementKingsCivil RightsTelling The TruthDefiningLutherCivil Rights MovementDefining MomentsBobby Kennedy Author:John F. Kerry
“I was born in '58, so the riot in Detroit in 1967 was a memorable introduction to the issue of race and how race made a difference in American society. And then the next year, of course, Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. And the Detroit Tigers winning the World Series. All of that made a huge impression on my growing mind.” WorldYearsMindMadeCoursesNextWinningBornDifferencesRaceIssuesGrowingHugeKingsSeriesImpressionMemorableTigersLutherIntroductionNext YearRiotDetroitAssassinationAmerican SocietyWorld Series Author:Michael Eric Dyson
“Remember, we're talking [in The Black Power Mixtape] about 1967, the year before [Martin Luther] King's assassination. We're talking about the emergence of black power, which is a discussion King mentioned in his last book, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? We're talking about the meaning of black power and the possibility that it alienated our supporters, both white and black.” YearsBookLastsRememberBlackCommunityWhiteTalkingPossibilityKingsChaosDiscussionSupporterLutherAssassinationEmergenceBlack PowerMixtapes Author:Danny Glover
“For example, it was this pack of wolves that sparked off the Rodney King affair a few years ago in Los Angeles. Let us consider the situation: a person videos Rodney King being beaten up by the cops. That person then sends in the footage to the TV station. Within hours riots flare up in the city!” YearsPersonsHoursCitiesSituationExampleTvsKingsYears AgoAffairVideoStationsLos AngelesCopPacksBeatenRiotFlareFlare UpPacks Of Wolves Author:Paul Virilio
“I think Martin Luther King would always keep track of collective insurgencies among poor and working people. He was concerned about the treatment of Jews in the Soviet Union, for example. He would have closely followed the Arab Spring. And certainly he would be very critical of the massive surveillance state that has emerged in America in the last five to 10 years. He would have approved of the movements trying to gain some accountability in U.S. foreign policy, such as drones being (used) on innocent people. I think he would march against drones.” PeopleThinkingTryingYearsStatesWould BeLastsAmericaUsedPoorFivePolicyExampleMovementKingsSpringGainsConcernedUnionsTrackJewCriticalInnocentCollectivesTreatmentAccountabilityMarchMassiveSovietForeign PolicySoviet UnionLutherSurveillanceApprovedDronesArab SpringInsurgencySurveillance State Author:Cornel West
“One thing that I'd just remind young people of is that when John Lewis, who's a member of Congress today, defied George Wallace and led the march from Selma to Montgomery, he was 23 years old. Martin Luther King was the old man in the bunch, and he was 35, so young people need to know that they've always been an important part of our society, have always been at the forefront of pushing for a more just America, and we can't be successful without the impatience, the vigor that young people bring to the fight for social justice.” PeopleKnowsMenNeedsYearsImportantTodayAmericaYoungFightingSocialJusticeSuccessfulOne ThingKingsMembersSocial JusticeCongressBunchBeing SuccessfulOur SocietyPushingMarchOld ManLutherImpatienceVigorMontgomeryGeorge Wallace Author:Keith Ellison
“I got messed up between my fight with Ken Norton and my fight with Larry Holmes; I got messed up with alcohol. I needed at least a year more experience, with three or four more fights before I fought Holmes. But I couldn't get any fights. Don King had all the contenders, and unless I signed myself over to him, I couldn't get a fight.” YearsFightingThreeFourKingsNeededAlcoholLarryHolmesMessed Up Author:Gerry Cooney
“It is wrong to take an 18-year-old boy or girl and arm them with machine guns and make them the almighty king of some little Arab village. No young man, and no old man either, should have so much power over the life and death of so many helpless individuals. It is corrupting. It sometimes provokes desperate, savage and indiscriminate violence among the occupied.” MenShouldYearsLittlesSometimesYoungGirlIndividualBoysViolenceArmsKingsGunShould HaveMachinesYoung ManDesperateLife And DeathOld ManVillageAlmightySavagesHelplessProvokingMachine Guns Author:Amos Oz
“The good news is that there is strong movement in this direction of shifting from domination systems to partnership systems. Over the past several hundred years, one progressive movement after another has challenged traditions of domination - from the 18th century "rights of man" movement challenging the "divinely ordained right" of kings to rule their "subjects" to today's environmental movement challenging the once hallowed "conquest of nature."” MenYearsTodayPastStrongChallengesRightsSubjectsCenturyMovementKingsNewsHundredTraditionEnvironmentalProgressivePartnershipGood NewsConquestDominationShiftingOver The Past18th CenturyYear OneProgressive Movement Author:Riane Eisler
“A decade passed between King's assassination and my birth, but the older I get, the more acutely aware I become that 10 years is nothing.” YearsBirthKingsDecadesAssassination Author:Nate Powell
“[My mother told me] stories about Nat King Cole, and Miles Davis, and seeing pictures in later years with band leaders like Alvino Ray.” YearsStoriesMotherLeaderSeeingKingsBandMilesRays Author:Jon Gordon
“It's such a unique story. Book of Joshua in the Bible wasn't always my favorite book, by the way. Only some ago did I realize that this book covers a seven-year period in the history of ancient Israel in which they literally went undefeated.They did have one setback, but outside of that, they defeated over 30 kings. They recaptured the Promised Land. They did what their ancestors said they could not.” WayYearsSaidBookStoriesRealizingLandKingsPeriodsUniqueSevenAncientMy FavoriteIsraelAncestorDefeatedSeven YearsSetbackPromised LandFavorite BookUndefeatedBook CoversStory Book Author:Max Lucado
“It is extreme arrogance for one to think he is the only one who can govern his country and nobody else can do it. We're all human. After 10, 15 years you get tired, you run out of steam and ideas, you have to give a chance to somebody else. And whether you yourself are inclined to stay on, all those around you are pushing you to stay on for what they will gain. One has to have the strength of character to say the time has come to move on...unless you are a king.” ThinkingGivingYearsHumansIdeasCountryCharacterRunningMovingCan DoChanceKingsGainsTiredExtremesArrogancePushingSteamStrength Of Character Author:Kofi Annan
“As far as my single selections, over the years it's been a very essential part of my survival tactic, but I have no problem being able to jump on records with whoever people think is the rawest rapper in the game or number one or King or whatever they wanna name themselves, to be honest with you. It doesn't affect me, 'cause that's what I come from; I'm comfortable in that zone. But I don't wanna make hood music, I don't wanna make street music, I want to make world music, global music, international music.” PeopleThinkingWorldWantYearsProblemAbleGamesNamesCausesNumbersRecordsStreetsHonestKingsEssentialsComfortableSurvivalInternationalBeing HonestZoneRapperSelectionNo ProblemTacticsHoodWorld Music Author:Pitbull
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.” YearsSoulSpiritualNationsSocialChangeMoneyMilitaryKingsProgramInjusticeDefenseCivil RightsRadicalUpliftingJailMore MoneyDoomVietnam WarPeace WarPeace And JusticeMilitarismInspirational MilitaryWar CrimesEconomic JusticeBreaking SilenceKings SpeechSpiritual DeathSoul ForceSocial ProgramsMilitary SpendingEvils Of WarLesser KnownMilitary Discipline Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The ideals and principles for which Martin Luther King Jr. fought have never been forgotten and are as relevant today as they were 40 years ago.” YearsTodayPrinciplesKingsIdealsYears AgoForgottenRelevantDrs Author:George Lucas
“In my office in Jerusalem, there's an ancient seal. It's a signet ring of a Jewish official from the time of the Bible. The seal was found right next to the Western Wall, and it dates back 2,700 years, to the time of King Hezekiah. Now, there's a name of the Jewish official inscribed on the ring in Hebrew. His name was Netanyahu.” YearsNextFoundNamesWallKingsOfficeWesternAncientRingsOfficialsSealsJerusalemHebrew Author:Benjamin Netanyahu
“Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.” YearsDreamAmericaOpportunityNationsProgressBirthKingsRealizationLutherAnniversary Author:Adam Schiff
“I am 73 years old. I've seen everything. I've met the kings, the queens, the presidents, I've been around the world. I have one thing that I would like to do: to try to reach peace.” WorldTryingYearsPresidentOne ThingKingsMetsAround The WorldQueens Author:Ariel Sharon
“But, I would say when I was four years old and I was at the Alan King Tennis Tournament and I was hitting with all the pros that would come to town. They would get me on the court or take notice and that stayed with me.” YearsSportsFourKingsTownsCourtTennisFour YearsHittingTournaments Author:Andre Agassi
“In the years since his murder, we have transformed King into a kind of innocuous black Santa Claus.” YearsKindBlackKingsMurderTransformedSantaSanta Claus Book:Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story Source: Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story
“No single man makes history. History cannot be seen, just as one cannot see grass growing. Wars and revolutions, kings and Robespierres, are history's organic agents, its yeast. But revolutions are made by fanatical men of action with one-track mind, geniuses in their ability to confine themselves to a limited field. They overturn the old order in a few hours or days, the whole upheaval takes a few weeks or at most years, but the fanatical spirit that inspired the upheavals is worshiped for decades thereafter, for centuries.” MenYearsMindMadeWarWholeActionSpiritOrderHoursAbilityGrowingWeekCenturyFieldsRevolutionGeniusKingsInspiredTrackDecadesAgentsGrassUpheavalSingle ManYeastGrass Growing Author:Boris Pasternak