Rosa Quotes
48 quotes by 39 authors
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In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the…
— Jesse Jackson
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People look at me like I should have been like Malcolm X or Martin Luther King or Rosa Parks. I should have seen life like…
— Rodney King
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Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality. Her greatest contribution…
— Marc Morial
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I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire…
— Ted Nugent
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I was raised in Arizona, and I went to public school, and the extent of my knowledge of the civil-rights movement was the story of…
— Emma Stone
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Unlike Rosa, I can see no divine purpose behind the tangle of this existence, no ordering hand. It is all a mystery, or more accurately,…
— Brady Udall
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Nobody can claim the name of Pedro, nobody is Rosa or MarÃa, all of us are dust or sand, all of us are rain under…
— Pablo Neruda
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There was something unmistakably exultant about the mess that Rosa had made. Her bedroom-studio was at once the canvas, journal, museum, and midden of her…
— Michael Chabon
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Were you raised in a barn? You don't just walk into someone's house." Ash laughed. "I have an open invitation to enter whenever I'm here."…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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There was the gate next, which she(Liesel)clung to. A gang of tears trudged from her eyes as she held on and refused to go inside.…
— Markus Zusak
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I'm a licensed private investigator and have been for quite a while. I'm a lone wolf, unmarried, getting middle-aged, and not rich. I've been in…
— Raymond Chandler
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Mrs. Gautier, I hear there are places online where you can sell children for a good price. Nick is still young enough, he should fetch…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Rosa Hubermann was sitting on the edge of the bed with her husband's accordion tied to her chest. Her fingers hovered above the keys. She…
— Markus Zusak
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Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly.
— Jay-Z
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An attribute of Rosa Hubermann, she was a good woman for a crisis.
— Markus Zusak
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I had always imagined Rosa Parks as a stately woman with a bold temperament, someone who could easily stand up to a busload of glowering…
— Susan Cain
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Cultivo una rosa blanca, En julio como en enero, Para el amigo sincero Que me da su mano franca. Y para el cruel que me…
— Jose Marti
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From the days of Spartacus, Weishophf, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon, Rosa Luxenburg, and Ema Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing. This conspiracy played…
— Winston Churchill
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When your heart speaks to you about what you need to do to sustain life on this planet, listen to it, make a difference, and…
— Bernie Siegel
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The first thing I do when I wake up is take a cup of tea, a cup of coffee, and vitamins, and then I look…
— Stefano Gabbana
Who Wrote These Rosa Quotes
39 authors contributed a total of 48 Rosa Quotes, led by these top contributors: