Color Quotes - Page 30

• I am held to answer for the crime of color when I was not consulted in the matter. Had I been consulted in the matter and my future fully described, I think I should have objected to being born in this gospel land.

  James T. Rapier

  Thinking, Should Have, Land

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• The Society is based on that great bottom law of human right, that nothing but crime can forfeit liberty. That no condition of birth, no shade of color, no mere misfortune of circumstances, can annul that birthright charter, which God has bequeathed to every being upon whom he has stamped his own image, by making him a free moral agent, and that he who robs his fellow man of this tramples upon right, subverts justice, outrages humanity, unsettles the foundation of human safety, and sacrilegiously assumes the prerogative of God.

  Theodore Dwight Weld

  Men, Law, Justice

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• I was so inspired by Dr. King that in 1956 with my brothers and sisters and first cousins, I was only 16 years old, we went down to the public library trying to check out some books and we were told by the librarian that the library was for whites only and not for colors! It was a public library! I never went back to that public library until July 5th, 1998, by this time I'm in the Congress, for a book signing of my book "Walking with the Wind"

  John Lewis

  Cousin, Brother, Kings

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• There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.There are not more than five primary colors, yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen.There are not more than five cardinal tastes, yet combinations of them yield more flavors than can ever be tasted.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Yield

  Sun Tzu (2017). “The Art Of War - The Oldest Military Treatise in the World”, p.55, Youcanprint

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• The Moon is essentially gray - no color - looks like plaster of paris - soft of gray sand.

  Jim Lovell

  Airplane, Moon, Paris

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• I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head. It's like a color movie. First I 'see' where I want it to finish, nice and white and sitting up high on the bright green grass. Then the scene quickly changes and I 'see' the ball going there: its path, trajectory, and shape, even its behavior on landing. Then there is this sort of fadeout, and the next scene shows me making the kind of swing that will turn the previous images to reality.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Nice, Golf, Reality

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• In lantern-light My yellow Chrysanthemums Lost all their color

  Yosa Buson

  Fall, Light, Yellow

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• The international community cannot accept that whole communities are marginalized because of the color of their skin. People of African descent are among those most affected by racism. Too often, they face denial of basic rights such as access to quality health services and education. Such fundamental wrongs have a long and terrible history.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Rights, Race, Long

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• America has joined forces with the Allied Powers, and what we have of blood and treasure are yours. Therefore it is that with loving pride we drape the colors in tribute of respect to this citizen of your great republic. And here and now, in the presence of the illustrious dead, we pledge our hearts and our honor in carrying this war to a successful issue. Lafayette, we are here.

  Charles E. Stanton

  Military, War, Heart

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• I see that the flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Military, Enemy, Troops

  Douglas MacArthur's address to Colonel George M. Jones and the 503rd Regimental Combat Team who recaptured Corregidor (March 2, 1945) as quoted in "Bureau of Navigation News Bulletin", 1945.

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• In the end, color combinations come down to our personal preferences, which we must discover through observation and experiment.

  Monty Don

  Beauty, Design, Combination

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• If the earth is man's extended body, to be loved and respected as one's own body, those who do no greening of themselves will hardly bring about the greening of America. The idea of 'greening' involves color, flowering, freshness of spring, and, above all, respect for what is organic and vegetative as distinct from the mechanical and metallic.

  Alan Watts

  Friendship, Spring, Men

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• What I need most of all is color, always, always.

  Claude Monet

  Garden, Needs

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• Monet's garden must be included with his works, because he combined the magic of an adaptation of nature with the work of a painter of light. An extension of the studio into the openair, with color tones lavishly spread out on all sides to exercise the eye with seductive vibrations, from which a feverishly aroused retina expects unquenchable joy.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Eye, Exercise, Garden

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• It was the hour in which objects lose the consistency of shadow that accompanies them during the night and gradually reacquire colors, but seem to cross meanwhile an uncertain limbo, faintly touched, just breathed on by light; the hour in which one is least certain of the world's existence.

  Italo Calvino

  Morning, Night, Light

  Italo Calvino (2012). “The Nonexistent Knight”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm halfway around the world with dozens of bags, feeling like all 4 members of Color Me Badd.

  Drake

  Humble, Feelings, World

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• Don't let your character change color with your environment. Find out who you are and let it stay it's true color.

  Rachel Scott

  Life, Character, Environment

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• America is not like a blanket- one piece of unbroken cloth. America is more like a quilt- many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven together by a common thread.

  Jesse Jackson

  Quilts, Common Threads, America

  1984 Launching his 'rainbow coalition' at the Democratic National Convention, San Francisco, 17 Jul.

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• How does a pansy, for example, select the ingredients from soil to get the right colors for the flower? Now there's a great miracle. I think there's a supreme power behind all of this. I see it in nature.

  Clyde Tombaugh

  Nature, Flower, Thinking

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• He [Tinky Winky] is purple - the gay-pride color, and his antenna is shaped like a triangle - the gay pride symbol.

  Jerry Falwell

  Stupid, Silly, Pride

  "Parents Alert: Tinky Winky Comes Out of the Closet". National Liberty Journal, February 1999.

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• How blazing and alive the past is. The color of the wallpaper in the bedroom you had as a girl. It's not so much that you've lost your memory, more like you're submerged in it, like you're living in the brightly vivid underwater world of the past.

  Jackie Kay

  Girl, Memories, Past

  Jackie Kay (2012). “Red Dust Road: Picador Classic”, p.54, Pan Macmillan

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• Orange is the color of the sun. It is vital and a good color generally, indicating thoughtfulness and consideration of others.

  Edgar Cayce

  Nature, Orange, Sun

  Edgar Cayce (1986). “The Edgar Cayce Collection: Four Volumes in One”, Random House Value Publishing

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• There is indeed no such thing in life as absolute darkness; one's eyes revolt and hasten to fill the vacuum by floating in sparks, dream patterns, figures whimsical and figures grotesque, shifting and clad in complementary colors, to appease the indignant cups and rods of the retina.

  Gelett Burgess

  Dream, Eye, Things In Life

  Gelett Burgess (1916). “The Romance of the Commonplace”

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• ...Basketball doesn't care what color your skin is. It doesn't care what language you speak or what religion you practice. It doesn't care if you're big or small, fast or slow. It just asks you to play, to complete, to lose with dignity, to win humility.

  Jim Calhoun

  Basketball, Humility, Winning

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• The Army has carried the American... ideal to its logical conclusion... Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on the grounds of ability.

  Tom Lehrer

  Funny, Military, Army

  "Introduction to 'It Makes a Fellow Proud to be a Soldier'". CD Audio "An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer", March 20-21, 1959.

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