John Clarke quote: "I learned that no matter how old you are in the world, you can always help someone. I had to get out there and help. I didn't want to be living in the street, so I'll get out there and pick some oranges or something, help my mother out and show her love."

Liberty begets license.
JOHN CLARKE

Consider not what may do, but what it will become you to do.
JOHN CLARKE

Here is a fine field for talent.
JOHN CLARKE

Nothing is more obnoxious than a low person raised to a high position.
JOHN CLARKE

Nature has placed his own happiness in each man's hands, if he only knew how to use it.
JOHN CLARKE

They are raised on high that their fall may be the greater.
JOHN CLARKE

The best manners are stained by haughtiness.
JOHN CLARKE

He who seeks to terrify others is more in fear himself.
JOHN CLARKE

A far greater warfare lies hidden under this assumed peace.
JOHN CLARKE

Power call achieve more by gentle means than by violence.
JOHN CLARKE

Alas, by what trivial causes is greatness overthrown!
JOHN CLARKE

When poverty comes in at doors, love leaps out at windows.
JOHN CLARKE

Home is home, though it be never so homely.
JOHN CLARKE

I will not make fish one and flesh of another.
JOHN CLARKE

Who is more busy than he who hath least to do?
JOHN CLARKE

Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns.
JOHN CLARKE

Fair words butter no parsnips.
JOHN CLARKE

After John received his degree, he joined DSV, a venture capital firm in Princeton, and when I had m...
JOHN CLARKE

I loved the orchestra from the beginning, ... In addition to allowing me to play, it soon evolved in...
JOHN CLARKE

My mom wanted us to be the best we could be
JOHN CLARKE

I can't move out quickly enough,
JOHN CLARKE

It's the closest I've ever come. I'm hoping it is.
JOHN CLARKE

This is an area of interest for us. The idea of global brands is always attractive for us and we hav...
JOHN CLARKE

It's a natural progression from Matchbox to your first car at 16 -- always thinking bigger, better a...
JOHN CLARKE

God sends you joy, for sorrow will come fast enough
JOHN CLARKE

When poverty comes in at doors, love leaps out at windows
JOHN CLARKE

Pen and ink is wit's plough
JOHN CLARKE

Greenways are paths where the natural and human landscapes coincide.
JOHN CLARKE

In everything I have done here, I've been in the company of great women who devote themselves to bet...
JOHN CLARKE

A lot of us who live up here are just appalled anybody would think about using the mountains to solv...
JOHN CLARKE

To be a good goalkeeper you have to learn every aspect of the game. You have to know everyone else's...
JOHN CLARKE

It's an absolute disgrace,
JOHN CLARKE

It's the idea of mixing uses in close proximity, so you can get to the store from your house on foot...
JOHN CLARKE

The rise of African nations concurrent with the spread of the Nation of Islam and the civil rights m...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE

When Marcus Garvey died in 1940, the role of the British Empire was already being challenged by Indi...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE

The Europeans not only colonialized most of the world, they began to colonialize information about t...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE

The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legi...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE

In order to have a charismatic leader, you have to have a charismatic program. Because if you have a...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE

In the United States, the Supreme Court's decision of 1954, outlawing segregation in school syst...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, the United States would enter, in a formal way,...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE

What I have learned is that a whole lot of people with degrees don't know a damn thing, and a lo...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE

We have been educated into believing someone else's concept of the deity, and someone else's...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE

Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conqueror...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE

History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell th...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE

I question the political judgement of those who would have the nerve to paint Christ white with his ...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE

The role of religions in the domination and destruction of African civilizations was ruthless... Isl...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE

Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE

Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbe...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE

I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at ...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE

Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly ed...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE

The first light of human consciousness and the world's first civilizations were in Africa.
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE

Malcolm X found the language that communicated across the board, from college professor to floor swe...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE

Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE

A people's relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its moth...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE

To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppresse...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can te...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE

The people and the cultures of what is known as Africa are older than the word 'Africa.' Acc...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE

I understood that my family was rich in love but would probably never own the land my father, John, ...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE

She was not a white woman. She was not a Greek... Until the emergence of the doctrine of white super...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE

As the eldest son of an Alabama sharecropper family, I was constantly troubled by a collage of North...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE

Africa and its people are the most written about and the least understood of all of the world's ...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE

My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagina...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE

Anytime you turn on your own concept of God, you are no longer a free man. No one needs to put chain...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE

When the early Europeans first met Africans, at the crossroads of history, it was a respectful meeti...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE

Anytime someone says your God is ugly and you release your God and join their God, there is no hope ...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE

I caddied for Dwight Eisenhower and Omar Bradley long before they became generals or president, for ...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE

It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, ...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE

Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammad's message made a whole lot of people feel whole again, human being...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE

All the working-class people could feel a Malcolm X. They could hear Malcolm X, and two weeks later ...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE

Had Elijah Muhammad tried to introduce an orthodox form of Arab-oriented Islam, I doubt if he would ...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE

My loving sister Mary has always shared the pain and pleasure of my heartbeat in a unique and specia...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE

When I was able to go to school in my early years, my third grade teacher, Ms. Harris, convinced me ...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE

I am a nationalist, and a Pan-Africanist, first and foremost. I was well grounded in history before ...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE

There was a time when all dark-skinned people were called Ethiopians, for the Greeks referred to Afr...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE

In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their p...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE

There are some long silences in Scandinavian and some Japanese films, when the audience knows action...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE

My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first b...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE

History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell th...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE

Racists will always call you a racist when you identify their racism. To love yourself now - is a fo...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE

I only debate my equals. All others, I teach.
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE

My father has been the real anchor of the family. He's the one who has always encouraged my moth...
YVETTE CLARKE

I would put myself towards left of center.
YVETTE CLARKE

It was August 28th, 1963, and the greatest civil rights coalition in modern history had descended up...
YVETTE CLARKE

Only Congress has the authority to adequately and holistically address our broken immigration system...
YVETTE CLARKE

Good Dems are good Dems. They want a representative that really reflects their values.
YVETTE CLARKE

I have to earn re-election. That's the way I see it.
YVETTE CLARKE

We examine and highlight the history of the African descendants in America, and know that each and e...
YVETTE CLARKE

I hope that the opening of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial will be a life-altering experien...
YVETTE CLARKE

Even after facing jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. courageously and boldly spoke out against racial ine...
YVETTE CLARKE

There is no doubt that Stop-and-Frisk does not yield the desired results, and it is apparent that it...
YVETTE CLARKE

My mother taught me how to apply my own makeup at 13 years old, and the most important lesson I lear...
EMILIA CLARKE

My dad took me for an audition once, to show me, 'OK, you want to be a child actor, this is what...
EMILIA CLARKE

After my last audition for 'Game of Thrones,' they said, 'Congratulations, princess.'...
EMILIA CLARKE

I went on iTunes and looked at versions of Christmas songs. Everyone has done them!
VINCE CLARKE

I used to do all my programming on a BBC computer. It was limited to 16 tracks, and you used the key...
VINCE CLARKE

When we start to write for a new record, we never really know what we're doing. We don't com...
VINCE CLARKE

I'm a lover of songs.
VINCE CLARKE

I started writing songs at age 15.
VINCE CLARKE

When I was 20, I thought anyone in the music business over 25 is past it. Then at 30, you think anyo...
VINCE CLARKE

I'm actually doing a show. from my shed. on the internet. but it won't be music or anything,...
VINCE CLARKE

Collaboration is no longer painful - or precious.
VINCE CLARKE

With a track like 'White Christmas,' everybody has done that song in every format you can im...
VINCE CLARKE

I was offered and accepted a part in 'A Few Best Men,' and then the Australian actor's u...
NOEL CLARKE

The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the...
ADAM CLARKE

Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connectio...
ADAM CLARKE

The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Pr...
ADAM CLARKE

And hence he must be invisible; for a spirit cannot be seen by the eye of man: nor is there any thin...
ADAM CLARKE

As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took t...
ADAM CLARKE

He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
ADAM CLARKE

But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is...
ADAM CLARKE

Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to...
ADAM CLARKE

Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he...
ADAM CLARKE

To be filled with God is a great thing, to be filled with the fullness of God is still greater; to b...
ADAM CLARKE

However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
ADAM CLARKE

Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value...
ADAM CLARKE

Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
ADAM CLARKE

If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not...
ADAM CLARKE

It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have writ...
ADAM CLARKE

Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - pa...
ADAM CLARKE

It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.
ADAM CLARKE

Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
ADAM CLARKE

Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infanc...
ADAM CLARKE

The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts;...
ADAM CLARKE

If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts...
ADAM CLARKE

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
ADAM CLARKE

We believe that with inflation rising rapidly, and concerns among the hawks that it will be harder t...
ALAN CLARKE

Services performance was encouraging especially given the glimmers of hope on the domestic demand si...
ALAN CLARKE

The rise in output prices confirms signs... that firms are clawing back some pricing power.
ALAN CLARKE

As ever, the input price data is an energy story, and the fall in the sterling price of oil in the l...
ALAN CLARKE

Overall, this reinforces signs that we have seen the worst news on UK activity.
ALAN CLARKE

The worst news on UK inflation is yet to come. The probability of a further rate cut is clearly redu...
ALAN CLARKE

Speculation that we will see deep interest rates is overdone. In the context of the widely anticipat...
ALAN CLARKE

Clearly the departure of the most hawkish member of the committee suggests a risk of a marginally mo...
ALAN CLARKE

We're disappointed that our proposal didn't go through, but we're ecstatic in the fact that they did...
ALAN CLARKE

I've been through the entire list of Polar problems. I knew it would be hard, but it's harde...
LEWIS CLARKE

As a revelation from God, they have stood the test of many ages; and as such maintained their ground...
ADAM CLARKE

[With 5 fabrics to choose from, consumers have the ability to buy inexpensive and lightweight cover ...
ADAM CLARKE

If they wanted their shit stirred, then stirred their shit was jolly well going to be.
STEPHEN CLARKE

Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange.
Strange frowned. He seeme...
SUSANNA CLARKE

Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest cou...
KENNETH CLARKE

We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.
BOBBY CLARKE

Sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped t...
BROCK CLARKE

I really like sometimes to do action pictures; I get a really big kick out of doing those.
STANLEY CLARKE

Only by acknowledging the success and sacrifice made by those who came before us can we fully unders...
YVETTE CLARKE

When I first discovered for myself the Celtic Twilight and read the earlier poems of Yeats and other...
AUSTIN CLARKE

In 1968, America was a wounded nation. The wounds were moral ones; the Vietnam War and three summers...
THURSTON CLARKE

Being a mother of two myself - and two small girls - I think that single parenting is hard.
SARAH CLARKE

I was 13 when I developed the classic symptoms of a person who gets diabetes: a lot of weight loss, ...
BOBBY CLARKE

My mother taught me to cleanse, tone, and moisturize twice a day, so I always do that - I could be p...
EMILIA CLARKE

American naturalism is what my indulgent actor side loves: a bit of Tennessee Williams, a bit of Cli...
EMILIA CLARKE

Before Truman Capote, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously.
GERALD CLARKE

There are no captions on red-carpet photos that say, 'This girl trained for two weeks, she went ...
EMILIA CLARKE

After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a n...
STANLEY CLARKE

This gentleman here, Michael Hussey, is just an absolute freak.
MICHAEL CLARKE

I don't think Capote loved Smith. But he did make a deep connection. It upset some people, becau...
GERALD CLARKE

My father was a sheep shearer, so I grew up in a caravan; we'd go around from shearing shed to s...
JASON CLARKE

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
ARTHUR CLARKE

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
ARTHUR CLARKE

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen ...
ARTHUR CLARKE

The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st ce...
ARTHUR CLARKE

This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since ...
ARTHUR CLARKE

Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the s...
ARTHUR CLARKE

Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phras...
ARTHUR CLARKE

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
ARTHUR CLARKE

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroo...
ARTHUR CLARKE

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
ARTHUR CLARKE

Most of the region's markets are trading off a bit, which is to be expected. The strength you've see...
ANDREW CLARKE

At the moment, it seems that a there is a huge wave of money coming in from overseas, and investors ...
ANDREW CLARKE

What matters is that this bloke is happy; he loves life and he appears to love Melbourne. His glass ...
ANDREW CLARKE

But there should be a lot of buying support at 15,800.
ANDREW CLARKE

It concentrates much more on the sociological aspects connected to environmental changes.
ANDREW CLARKE

Everyone has the Christmas blues. Investors are now concerned the US economy may be about to slow do...
ANDREW CLARKE

we just had our football bible study group in here. I've been leading it for the last three years.
ANDREW CLARKE

They came through with that, so I had another whole off-season to recover and rehab, but here I am s...
ANDREW CLARKE

They said a year or 15 months and I brushed it off,
ANDREW CLARKE

You can lean back and they'll catch so you can only go so far, ... I leaned back and it collapsed.
ANDREW CLARKE

All the plumbing fixtures are original and intact. The house has four fireplaces with each displayin...
BILL CLARKE

It's a glorious old home, very much in excellent condition.
BILL CLARKE

We're looking for the access.
BILL CLARKE

We are having our second review by the city for our site plan. We expect to be able to pull building...
BILL CLARKE

It will contain a multitude of restaurants, and an entertainment and lifestyle district, things we a...
BILL CLARKE

We're satisfied with it. It's a temporary solution for a year. It will give us some time while the t...
BILL CLARKE

In Naples you have 5th Avenue, and you have Coconut Grove in Miami. We want to put Cape Coral on the...
BILL CLARKE

The push button wall plates are still there. They are copper and have the black and white push butto...
BILL CLARKE

I tell stories. I kind of stumbled on that by trying to combine Jane Austen and magic.
SUSANNA CLARKE

When I'm on stage, I feel very much at home - within a theater, within an ensemble - so this ent...
EMILIA CLARKE

Matthew being a constant attendant on our Lord, his history is an account of what he saw and heard; ...
ADAM CLARKE

A deep, black grief gripped Robert Kennedy in the months following his brother's assassination. ...
THURSTON CLARKE

Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.
ADAM CLARKE

It takes us many years to learn that the passion for justice and the welfare of all, once it has bee...
AUSTIN CLARKE

Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for th...
ADAM CLARKE

His theory was that non-fiction could be as artful as fiction.
GERALD CLARKE

I'm really old-fashioned. An Epsom salt bath, that's genuinely better than any massage.
EMILIA CLARKE

I think it's important that we have a new batch of British film-makers that aren't doing the...
NOEL CLARKE

Bass players are always the intellectual kind, but nobody knows it.
STANLEY CLARKE

I actually don't get massages very much. But Epsom salt baths are better than any massage.
EMILIA CLARKE

This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating h...
ADAM CLARKE

We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans h...
YVETTE CLARKE

I've been adding to it whenever I can. I've been in over 100 shows and I think the car is finally ju...
BRIAN CLARKE

I learned that no matter how old you are in the world, you can always help someone. I had to get out there and help. I didn't want to be living in the street, so I'll get out there and pick some oranges or something, help my mother out and show her love.

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John Clarke

I learned that no matter how old you are in the world, you can always help someone. I had to get out there and help. I didn't want to be living in the street, so I'll get out there and pick some oranges or something, help my mother out and show her love.

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