Franklin Quotes
173 Franklin quotes by 148 unique authors
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Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues.
— Gaylord Nelson
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The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we appreciated them to be when…
— Gaylord Nelson
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Facts are facts: No president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the Great Depression inherited a worse economy, bigger job losses or deeper problems from his…
— Martin O'Malley
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Being in L.A., it was really hard to find a country writer and producer. I eventually - years of searching - found this guy, Dan…
— Sasha Pieterse
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I am so saddened by the loss of our dear friend, Bonnie Franklin. She was just full of light and love. Bonnie will be very…
— Mackenzie Phillips
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I've been getting into different gospel artists; Aretha Franklin is someone I've been listening to a lot of.
— Jonny Lang
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I know I'm not going to sing like Aretha Franklin or Elvis Presley or any of those people.
— George Thorogood
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The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it is very hard to revere them.
— Ken Livingstone
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To me, Arnold was a pioneer in the spirit of Thomas Edison or Benjamin Franklin, while Tiger is a pioneer in the spirit of Bill…
— Mark McCormack
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I think one of the lessons of the Depression - and this is something that Franklin Roosevelt demonstrated - was that when orthodoxy fails, then…
— Ben Bernanke
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If Obama's vision of the public sector is socialism, then so too were the visions of Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John…
— Jeff Greenfield
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Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's 'Courant,' it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing…
— Eric Alterman
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She's got her God and she's got good wine, Aretha Franklin, and Patsy Cline.
— Trisha Yearwood
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Since Social Security was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to ensure economic security for American workers, poverty among American seniors has dramatically…
— Steve Israel
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Her [Rosalind Franklin] devotion to research showed itself at its finest in the last months of her life. Although stricken with an illness which she…
— John Desmond Bernal
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People say I'm the white Aretha Franklin. I wish I was her.
— Joss Stone
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The muse of music isn't just from Greek mythology, but living in people like the Beatles, Chuck Berry, Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin.
— Ernie Isley
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In 1736, Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette printed an apology for its irregular appearence because its printer was "with the Press, labouring for the publick Good, to…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom, a musician who came from an incredibly Christian background, but there was a lot of love, which is really…
— Beth Ditto
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I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed…
— Rahm Emanuel
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The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's.
— Marianne Faithfull
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Historically, when Americans don't know what to do next, they go to Paris. Benjamin Franklin is like: 'What am I going to do now? I'll…
— Craig Ferguson
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The truth is that since the first book, I have wanted to emulate Benjamin Franklin and put together a healthy, wealthy and wise trilogy and…
— Tim Ferriss
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I want to sing like Aretha Franklin. Before her I wanted the technical ability of Ella Fitzgerald.
— Lena Horne
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Being around people like Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack, all these greats, I was taught to listen and observe.
— Whitney Houston
Who Wrote These Franklin Quotes
148 authors contributed a total of 173 Franklin Quotes, led by these top contributors: