One Drop Quotes

47 quotes by 41 authors

In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black. — Henry Louis Gates
There's a thing called the 'One Drop' theory in African-American culture, which is if you have one drop of black blood in you, you're black. — Keegan-Michael Key
For one drop calls another down, till we are drowned in seas of grief. — Isaac Watts
Jesus Lord, kind Pelican, Cleanse my filth with Thy blood, One drop of which can save The whole world from all its sin — Thomas Aquinas
Sometimes a single battle decides everything and sometimes, too, the slightest circumstance decides the issue of a battle. There is a moment in every battle… — Napoleon Bonaparte
Any man having one drop of the seed of Cane in him Cannot hold the priesthood ... I will say it now in the name… — Brigham Young
In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black. In Brazil, it's almost as if one drop of white ancestry makes you white. — Henry Louis Gates
My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops? — David Mitchell
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of… — Khalil Gibran
For God's sake, be economical with your lamps and candles! not a gallon you burn, but at least one drop of man's blood was spilled… — Herman Melville
He who has talent in him must be purer in soul than anyone else. Another will be forgiven much, but to him it will not… — Nikolai Gogol
That's all it takes, one drop of fear to curdle love into hate. — James M. Cain
Because time is a drop in the ocean, and you cannot measure off one drop against another to see which one is bigger, which one… — Elif Safak
A cup brimful of sweetness cannot spill even one drop of bitter water, no matter how suddenly jarred. — Amy Carmichael
Hatred is always a sin, my mother told me. Remember that. One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discolor everything like a… — Alice Munro
Let the fairy tale begin on a winter's morning, then, with one drop of blood newly-fallen on the ivory snow: a drop as bright as… — Ellen Kushner
One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water. — Victor Hugo
This Blood that but one drop of has the power to win all the world forgiveness of its world of sin. — Thomas Aquinas
I cannot bear the responsibility for one drop of blood. — Mohamed ElBaradei
Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean. — Ryunosuke Satoro

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