Break Quote by Hank Aaron Download Open image “Some people resented the fact I was trying to break a white man's record.” — Hank Aaron ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Break Man People Trying White
There was this wave of people who were upset that I was possibly married to a white man. — Jodie Turner-Smith Copy Share Image
I was conscious of the fact that it could be to my disadvantage to marry a white guy - that some folks would hold… — Susan Rice Copy Share Image
I made a conscious effort to make a record that would affect people in a good way rather than the last one, which affected… — Daniel Johns Copy Share Image
Whites would accuse you of causing trouble when all you were doing was acting like a normal human being instead of cringing. — Rosa Parks Copy Share Image
I found it to be kind of ironic, because I’m white, therefore I’m appropriating culture, but then Eminem won it - who’s white and… — Iggy Azalea Copy Share Image
If you ignore somebody's record and only focus on something that happened 25 years ago when all they were doing even then was trying to stand up for a minority group that felt excluded and discriminated against, then I don't - I think that is a distortion of a person's record. I mean, a person's record is full, not just… — Keith Ellison Copy Share
I was the generation who hated the white man, despised him, wanted to shoot him. — John Kani Copy Share Image
I stopped making records because I didn't like the way they were wanting me to record. — Porter Wagoner Copy Share Image
The more painful incidents of racism I chose to forget, to suffer in silence, or use humour to deflect rather than confront. I didn't… — Sam Gyimah Copy Share Image
Sometimes it seems as if I have spent the first half of my life refusing to let white people define me and the second… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life. — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
If White men were not complaining, it would be an indication we weren't succeeding and making the inroads that we are. — Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Copy Share Image
If I knew exactly what I know now and had it to do over, I'd be a switch hitter. No telling what I could… — Hank Aaron Copy Share Image
I think what separates a superstar from the average ballplayer is that he concentrates just a little bit longer. — Hank Aaron Copy Share Image
I've tried a lot of things in the off-season, but the only thing I really know is baseball. — Hank Aaron Copy Share Image
I had many, many, many death threats. I couldn't open letters for a long time, because they all had to be opened by either the FBI or somebody. I couldn't open letters. I had to be escorted. In fact, just recently I went to a funeral, Calvin Wardlaw, who was the detective -- the policeman -- with me for two… — Hank Aaron Copy Share
Last year, I was sort of a kid and I was a little scared, I ain't scared any more. — Hank Aaron Copy Share Image
I played sometimes about as dull as you can play it. I did things the right way, you know. I think I modeled my playing ability after one of the all time greats, Joe DiMaggio. You always found Joe, when he played, you know, he always threw to the right base. He ran, he caught the ball. He did all… — Hank Aaron Copy Share
I thought my chances to make the Braves were better and that they were being fairer to me, paying me more money to play… — Hank Aaron Copy Share Image
I tell young people - including my granddaughter - there is no shortcut in life. You have to take it one step at a… — Hank Aaron Copy Share Image
People were not ready to accept me as a baseball player. The easiest part of that whole thing, chasing the Babe's record, was playing… — Hank Aaron Copy Share Image
Too bad integration didn't come sooner, because there were so many ballplayers that could have made the major leagues. That's why, you look back,… — Hank Aaron Copy Share Image
I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the years have… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
Things are going well in Germany because the economy is booming and as an export-driven nation, we are profiting from the fact that we… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
There were songs that we cut out after we chose the name, because 'Praise Break' turned out to be an underlying concept that I… — Daniel Caesar Copy Share Image
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Must I go bound while you go free Must I love a manwho doesn't love me Must I be born with so little art… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I hadn't worked for a year when I had my Prison Break audition and it was the easiest audition I've ever had. I got… — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
Motor racing's less of a sport these days than a commercial break doing 150 mph. — Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
Much like teaching art to young art students age 10 to 15 or so on, you have to break it down into bite-sized pieces, essential components. You have to - you know, at this point I'm so used to operating within given assumptions about art. But when you're explaining art to art students or people who are new to this… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share
The purpose is to be in gratitude forever. Live with applied consciousness, prosperity will break through the walls, flood you with it. You do… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
To behave creatively in art means behavior with skill; and skill comes from discipline, not derangement. The artist who knows the rules -and proportion… — Burne Hogarth Copy Share Image
