Kings Quotes · Page 46

I think Judy Blume, Stephen King, and Dean Koontz are the three authors responsible for my being where I am today. I…

— James Dashner

The King's 28 letters have been described by scholars as the world's best alphabet and the most scientific system of writing.

— Jared Diamond

I considered Nat King Cole to be a friend and, in many ways, a mentor. He always had words of profound advice.

— Diahann Carroll

For the fate of Charles the first, hath only made kings more subtle — not more just.

— Thomas Paine

My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the '60s, and he's very much for women's rights.

— Tori Amos

The King can do no wrong; he cannot constitutionally be supposed capable of injustice.

— John Nichol

I've gone both ways. I do as I please. I am too f**king curious to sit here and not try when I…

— Michelle Rodriguez

Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition.

— Aldous Huxley

Up rose the wild old winter-king, And shook his beard of snow; "I hear the first young hard-bell ring, 'Tis time for…

— Charles Godfrey Leland

I went on to write my graduate thesis on the ["Montgomery Story"] comic book itself. It was the first long-form history that…

— Andrew Aydin

Yes; my brother Bobby used to distribute records at King Records. I had a job there, too, packing records up and shipping…

— Donald Dunn

I didn't think about being king,” he said, his voice hoarse. Eddis stared. “Your capacity to land yourself in a mess because…

— Megan Whalen Turner

The patriots of 1776 had far more to fear from Benedict Arnold than they did King George. An enemy easily identified is…

— Chuck Baldwin

For decades, this great leader, often at Dr. King's side, was denied his rightful place in history because he was openly gay.…

— Barack Obama

If you put together all the Christians in the world, with their Emperors and their Kings, the whole of these Christians, -…

— Marco Polo

And in the racial climate of this country today, it is anybody's guess which of the 'extremes' in approach to the black…

— Malcolm X

Hey, this is Europe. We took it from nobody; we won it from the bare soil that the ice left. The bones…

— Ken MacLeod

O time, swift robber of all created things, how many kings, how many nations hast thou undone, and how many changes of…

— Leonardo da Vinci

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. ...What is interesting is brought forward as if it had…

— George Santayana

I think that Billie (Jean King) and Zina (Garrison), they have a whole lot of experience. Even if I don't quite agree…

— Venus Williams

For centuries before Google, MIT, and IDEO, modern hotbeds of innovation, we struggled to explain any kind of creation, from the universe…

— Scott Berkun

I used to ask myself why American universities are financed through endowments. Now I know: During the early days of America, the…

— Zhang Xin

When a monarchy gradually transforms itself into a republic, the executive power there preserves titles, honors, respect, and even money long after…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

If our Lord ascends up to Heaven, ascend with Him. Be one of those angels who escort Him, or one of those…

— Gregory of Nazianzus

I am more afraid of making a fault in my Latin than of the Kings of Spain, France, Scotland, the whole House…

— Elizabeth I

For playing a man to a square to which it cannot be legally moved, the adversary, at his option, may require him…

— Howard Staunton

The lyrics were my sarcastic way of realizing you can't be the king of the hill all the time.

— Hayley Williams

Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time.

— Henry Louis Gates

Beyoncé built her f–king foundation from the bottom. I think that’s the exact career every female artist wants to have.

— Rita Ora

Roses don't always grow in the courtyard of kings, they can also grow in the backyard of beggars.

— Anu Malik

Only In America can a renowned and devoted terrorism supporter like Peter King be the arbiter of national security and treason.

— Glenn Greenwald

Kings kill; clowns don't; therefore the clowns of the kings are more valuable than the kings!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

For a beggar to live at court is not so much as the King to dwell with him in his cottage.

— William Gurnall

Cesare persuaded King Louis to lend him an entire army to defeat me. I'm flattered.

— Bartolomeo d'Alviano

Look to Africa, when a black king shall be crowned for the day of deliverance is at hand!

— Marcus Garvey

You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the Grim Reaper.

— Robert Alton Harris

It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.

— Solomon

I make more money with Don King stealing from me than 100 percent from other promoters.

— Jack Newfield

I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed.

— Bob Dylan

That's where Dr. [Martin Luther] King is mixed up. His goals should be the solution of the problem of the black man…

— Malcolm X