Mordecai Wyatt Johnson quote: "The Negro people of America... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of their trials they have manifested a simple faith, a grateful heart, a cheerful spirit, and an undivided loyalty ."

When the Negro cries with pain from his deep hurt and lays his petition for elemental justice before...
MORDECAI WYATT JOHNSON

Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative.
MORDECAI WYATT JOHNSON

Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide c...
MORDECAI WYATT JOHNSON

The time is past when Christians in America can take a long spoon and hand the gospel to the black m...
MORDECAI W. JOHNSON

Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of tim...
MORDECAI RICHLER

Damn damn damn.
MORDECAI RICHLER

In a nutshell, I am not unaware of my failings. Neither am I a stranger to irony.
MORDECAI RICHLER

Better my right hand should have been cut off. Go know I was setting in motion events that would lea...
MORDECAI RICHLER

Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials.
MORDECAI RICHLER

Dad played with me a great deal, as dads should do, and our chief sport was baseball. He bought me a...
MORDECAI BROWN

Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of tim...
MORDECAI RICHLER

Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of...
MORDECAI RICHLER

Bad days my memory functions no better than an out-of-focus kaleidoscope, but other days me recall i...
MORDECAI RICHLER

Obviously the raven with the unquenchable itch was at it again, playing tricks on the world and its ...
MORDECAI RICHLER

Remember this, Griffin. The revolution eats its own. Capitalism recreates itself.
MORDECAI RICHLER

But the truth is, nothing delights me more than a biography of one of the truly great that proves he...
MORDECAI RICHLER

In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn.
MORDECAI RICHLER

C'è stato un tempo in cui osavo sognare che Miriam e io, superati i
novanta, saremmo spirati i...
MORDECAI RICHLER

Oh, dio mio, se fossi un angelo del Signore segnerei con una croce le porte di casa dei miei figli, ...
MORDECAI RICHLER

...and then I began to drift, fighting tears. I used to come here with Miriam. Miriam, my heart's de...
MORDECAI RICHLER

Credevo che per Barney esistessi solo tu. Almeno questo è quello che dicono tutti. Senti, ambasciat...
MORDECAI RICHLER

Ai miei tempi quando una donna diventava una star del cinema doveva girare in occhiali da sole e fou...
MORDECAI RICHLER

You're convinced that anybody who meets you for the first time will consider you a shit, so you take...
MORDECAI RICHLER

Do you think she'd mind if, after the dinner, I slipped out for an hour and maybe caught the third p...
MORDECAI RICHLER

«C'è chi colleziona francobolli, o scatole di fiammiferi» mi ha detto una volta. «Tu collezioni ...
MORDECAI RICHLER

In those olden times you didn't have to be a space scientist to manage the gadget that flicked your ...
MORDECAI RICHLER

...I thought, breaking into a sweat, I'd better call Saul. I owe Kate an apology... Damn damn damn.
MORDECAI RICHLER

The truth is Canada is a cloud-cuckoo-land, an insufferably rich country governed by idiots, its sel...
MORDECAI RICHLER

One final thought. In the years leading up to my trial, whenever I was caught in bumper-to-bumper tr...
MORDECAI RICHLER

All the same, it strikes me as unfair that I still have to defend myself against her moral judgement...
MORDECAI RICHLER

There's no such thing as a superhuman. But the only thing I got to tell you, if you take a dog and k...
MORDECAI RICHLER

And what if Miriam and I were never to be reconciled?
MORDECAI RICHLER

But I hate being a grandfather. It's indecent. In my mind's eye, I'm still twenty-five. Thirty-three...
MORDECAI RICHLER

Following the death of his wife, Sam Johnson wrote to the Reverend Mr. Thomas Warton, "I have ever s...
MORDECAI RICHLER

E' un meccanismo difensivo, sai. Tu sei sicuro che uno che non ti ha mai visto ti considererebbe un ...
MORDECAI RICHLER

When a child is born, I once explained to the kids, some dads lay down bottles of wine for them that...
MORDECAI RICHLER

...if I were an angel of the Lord, I would mark the doors of each of my children's homes with an X, ...
MORDECAI RICHLER

I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, u...
MORDECAI RICHLER

Let me put it this way. Canada is not so much a country as a holding tank filled with the disgruntle...
MORDECAI RICHLER

Without a doubt, it [Canada] is the land God gave to Cain.
MORDECAI RICHLER

I'm rambling again. Wandering off the point. But this is the true story of my wasted life...
MORDECAI RICHLER

Some of the attitudes of Barney are certainly attitudes I share, but not all.
MORDECAI RICHLER

If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much co...
MORDECAI RICHLER

I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it betw...
MORDECAI RICHLER

We live in the country, and I have a huge library there. When we go to London for the winter I never...
MORDECAI RICHLER

These bloody days have broken my heart.
My lust, my youth did them depart,
And blind desir...
THOMAS WYATT

And then may chance thee to repent
The time that thou hast lost and spent
To cause thy lov...
THOMAS WYATT

The Lover Compareth his State to a Ship in Perilous Storm Tossed on the Sea

My galley cha...
THOMAS WYATT

Stand whoso list upon the slipper top
Of court's estates, and let me here rejoice
And use ...
THOMAS WYATT

The fructe of all the servise that I serve
Dispaire doth repe, such haples hap have I ;
Bu...
THOMAS WYATT

I leave off therefore,
Since in a net I seek to hold the wind.
THOMAS WYATT

Whoso List to Hunt

Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind,
But as for me, hela...
THOMAS WYATT

They flee from me that sometime did me seek
With naked foot, stalking in my chamber.
I hav...
THOMAS WYATT

These bloody days have broken my heart.
THOMAS WYATT

Forsake me not till I deserve
Nor hate me not till I offend;
Destroy me not till that I sw...
THOMAS WYATT

Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind,
But as for me, hélas, I may no more.
The vai...
THOMAS WYATT

I find no peace, and all my war is done,
I fear and hope; I burn and freeze like ice;
I fl...
THOMAS WYATT

Noli me tangere, for Caesar's I am /
And wild for to hold, though I seem tame.
THOMAS WYATT

When you're an athlete, you've got the horse blinders on pretty thick. Your exploration of o...
WYATT RUSSELL

A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.
WOODROW WYATT

Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.
WYATT EARP

We are the boat, we are the sea, I sail in you, you sail in me
LORRE WYATT

Woman was taken out of man; not out of his head to top him, nor out of his feet to be trampled under...
WOODROW WYATT

I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to...
ROBERT WYATT

Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.
ROBERT WYATT

There are people I would like to work with. It's a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks ...
ROBERT WYATT

I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in ...
ROBERT WYATT

Wal-Mart plans to open 20 stores in China this year. We could hire up to 150,000 people there to fil...
AMY WYATT

We could hire as many as 150,000 (new employees) in the next five years.
AMY WYATT

Central America is a very strong region. In general, Latin America is a very strong region for us. W...
AMY WYATT

Wal-Mart plans to open 20 stores in China this year.
AMY WYATT

I'll tell what, old Bobbie Williams and Larry Summers did a great job. Bobbie seems to be able to fi...
ALVIN WYATT

Defensively, we're putting a lot of pressure on people.
ALVIN WYATT

It's not the problems you have, but how you react to them that counts.
ALVIN WYATT

We're growing accustomed to him doing the things that he does.
ALVIN WYATT

He was OK. We just didn't get it done. We [changed quarterbacks] for a change of pace.
ALVIN WYATT

We have lots of speed. It's tough to run in those conditions. Once the rain started, it was a bad fi...
ALVIN WYATT

I'm probably the only person loyal to the bone to my alma mater. I don't want to go anywhere. I'm ju...
ALVIN WYATT

Playing against a former coach has nothing to do with it. We do it the same way whether we're playin...
ALVIN WYATT

They're showing improvement. They got better. You can see the difference between the Virginia State ...
ALVIN WYATT

(Russell) did a fantastic job.
ALVIN WYATT

When I was a kid growing up, we had a cherry tree in the backyard, 100 years old. I climbed it, and ...
ANDREW WYATT

Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture.
JAMES WYATT

I think I will let them decide how they want to tackle it.
BROOKE WYATT

I think we have a very strong pool of applicants this year.
BROOKE WYATT

That bar is being set so high, really high in this pool of competitors. You see that all over the da...
BROOKE WYATT

The senior male division is a very strong division.
BROOKE WYATT

We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a ...
ROBERT WYATT

The way we did it was really through trench warfare and really hard work. It wasn't easy, and we had...
BILL WYATT

We thought North Aurora should at least begin the process of exploring tapping into that resource. T...
BILL WYATT

It's always a humbling experience when people say they believe in what you do, what you stand for. I...
BILL WYATT

The bottom line is it's all taxpayers money, and the main thing was to get it done. This was two hea...
BILL WYATT

The new laws reflect the diversity of issues that states must deal with. Some legislatures only meet...
BILL WYATT

I think that pop, and to some extent rock, are like sport and fashion industry in that they're a...
ROBERT WYATT

News coverage is one element among a whole solar system of elements that shapes how people react to ...
CLARENCE WYATT

I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.
ROBERT WYATT

Images of existence is what people defend while searching for a possible fix. Living by the commerci...
WYATT FRAZIER

When a man gets up to speak, people listen, then look. When a woman gets up, people look; then, if t...
WOODROW WYATT

Passion comes from within, but you can find it anywhere.
C.C. WYATT

We're not insulted, ... The Collapse of Toilets in Glasgow.
JONATHAN WYATT

I went on an audition. I walked in the room, and it was Leslie Mann with Judd Apatow. It was intimid...
WYATT RUSSELL

There are many ways of attaining the various levels of human bliss. But one of the highest states of...
JOHN WYATT

It really takes likeable superstars to get the attention of the masses.
JENNIFER WYATT

Lindsay's who we've leaned on all year, and that's a good thing because she's a great player. I didn...
CHRIS WYATT

Frankly I think that's unfair, ... ...I think it's possible to take issue with the content of that f...
CLARENCE WYATT

I was a hockey player. I played hockey forever. That was my life and my job until I got injured, so ...
WYATT RUSSELL

Just mellow, I guess you would say.
JUSTIN WYATT

I was in Toronto with my parents, and my dad took me to an outdoor hockey rink. I was 3 or 4, and I ...
WYATT RUSSELL

Eric works as hard as anyone to improve. It amazes me how hard it is to tackle him. He keeps his leg...
BOBBY WYATT

No country which has cricket as one of its national games has yet gone communist.
WOODROW WYATT

We're proposing a very simple LNG import terminal. We have an option on an 80-acre (32.4-hectare) pi...
ROBERT WYATT

We're proposing a very simple LNG import terminal,
ROBERT WYATT

I'm very pleased with the body of work we presented, ... really an apples to oranges.
ROBERT WYATT

The faces of our students after they realize the enormity of what they have accomplished through the...
ROBERT WYATT

There's no such thing as a perfect site, at least I haven't found one in 30 years.
ROBERT WYATT

Pleasant memories was my receipt for a good time well spent.
WYATT FRAZIER

I didn't know about that but it's nice to hear. I'm just hoping to have a good season.
JUSTIN WYATT

Fast is fine but accuracy is final. You must learn to be slow in a hurry.
WYATT EARP

The calf didn't respond to any manipulation of the foot ? no response from calf, consistently.
JEFF WYATT

I'm not full of malice, but I do dislike Neil Diamond a lot, and I'm sorry that I've don...
ROBERT WYATT

I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest.
ROBERT WYATT

We had a good running game, one of the best I've seen since I've been here. Then we made some big de...
BOBBY WYATT

Let's align our resources where we have demand.
STEVE WYATT

One of the things I try to do is examine how attitudes regarding that conflict have evolved over tim...
CLARENCE WYATT

We possibly wouldn't have survived if it hadn't been for that loan. The support from the city is wha...
BILLY WYATT

We looked a little sluggish. Especially on defense. We were not as aggressive as we have been the la...
BILLY WYATT

A year of growth made a heck of a lot of difference..
BILLY WYATT

That's the nature of journalism. And it's the nature of combat, ... To criticize the media for cover...
CLARENCE WYATT

I think to ignore that piece of work is foolish on any number of levels, ... I think it's a tragic m...
CLARENCE WYATT

But you've got to confront the fact that maybe, when you consistently deny what you feel so others w...
WYATT WEBB

God made woman beautiful and foolish; beautiful, that man might love her; and foolish, that she migh...
WOODROW WYATT

Things break. You can't really plan for an individual pipe where it's going to break, when it's goin...
GREG WYATT

I started by hacking around the back yard in Richmond.
JENNIFER WYATT

There's a huge audience available at the supper-hour period.
STEVE WYATT

Employ oneself upon trifling professional matters which others could do.
JAMES WYATT

There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that m...
ROBERT WYATT

It's as easy as finding the signal (with a wireless modem).
KENNY WYATT

When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer wh...
ROBERT WYATT

The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture.
ROBERT WYATT

We have an option on an 80-acre piece of land but we would probably use only about 35 acres. We woul...
ROBERT WYATT

This is the best defense I've ever been around. We've got great coaches, who are great human beings,...
BUDDY WYATT

It's just the way we prepare and the way we practice. Our practices are intense. We know if we make ...
BUDDY WYATT

We had a good plan. It wasn't really anything different. We just gave them a bunch of different look...
BUDDY WYATT

He's the main target for Vince, so he's obviously got some spunk to him. We've played some other tea...
JUSTIN WYATT

He's fast. He has the size, but he's definitely fast.
JUSTIN WYATT

It always nagged me. I played almost every game hurt. I couldn't do anything about it. I just studie...
JUSTIN WYATT

I woke up and it was just swollen beyond belief. The trainer told me if you want to see Saturday you...
JUSTIN WYATT

He's more natural looking than the others with his footwork and they threw him in the fire and he di...
JUSTIN WYATT

At first I was wondering where the quarterback was throwing the ball.
JUSTIN WYATT

When I was young, with my brothers, we'd make movies all the time, and that was never scripted.
WYATT RUSSELL

This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I ...
ROBERT WYATT

Anybody that lives in America and has parents with a moderate amount of wealth can be spoiled. I see...
WYATT RUSSELL

I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sound...
ROBERT WYATT

The first movie that ever scared me, I feel like it wasn't a scary movie. I feel like it was ...
WYATT RUSSELL

Sometimes there could be a rock sitting there, and say, oh gee it was resting on that rock, but real...
GREG WYATT

A section of pipe split and kind of went around the pipe this way. Typically this is a very stable, ...
GREG WYATT

We're losing work so fast, it's unreal.
JAY WYATT

The strike is a go.
JAY WYATT

To come to the table with that $5 co-pay is not negotiating in good faith.
JAY WYATT

It has become a very hostile working environment. It's like working on a plantation. It's hard to gr...
JAY WYATT

I'm hoping that we don't have to strike. This dispute has gone on long enough, and it needs to be se...
JAY WYATT

If they disagree with that, no matter what the reason is, it's inevitable that we will be going on s...
JAY WYATT

We'll stop operating our buses and working on them, if we don't have an agreement by noon. Hopefully...
JAY WYATT

You can get a sleep study done in a strip mall now without ever meeting with a (qualified) specialis...
JAMES WYATT

The parents get stigmatized as not having control over their kids when they can't get them to school...
JAMES WYATT

These are pretty substantial buildings. We are reasonably confident that we may land two or three ne...
JAMES WYATT

she gets paid to go to school.
JAMES WYATT

Lost are many great commissions by such neglect.
JAMES WYATT

There has been no regular architecture since Sir William Chambers - the public taste corrupted by th...
JAMES WYATT

Visitors get to see up close the objects of the popes that had such great influence on Western civil...
JEFFREY WYATT

We based our decision on the fact that the team we pulled together was extremely experienced with th...
JEFF WYATT

Since the calf doesn't breathe in the uterus, it is totally dependent on the oxygenated blood from t...
JEFF WYATT

We don't know what happens in the wild.
JEFF WYATT

It comes down to your net investment return.
JEANIE WYATT

That's what investors have come to expect.
JEANIE WYATT

Product enhancement is a popular topic in the industry right now with several brands talking about p...
REBECCA WYATT

This definitely gives me more confidence and I'm sure it does for our offense.
WYATT SEXTON

The longer the life the more the offense, the more the offense the more the pain, the more the pain ...
SIR THOMAS WYATT

Patience, though I have not
The thing that I require,
I must of force, God wot,
Forbear my...
SIR THOMAS WYATT

Since in a net I seek to hold the wind.
SIR THOMAS WYATT

Church, in the New Testament sense of the word, is not a meeting we attend, but a group of which we ...
KERI WYATT KENT

We had the best-equipped and we have the best-trained military force on the face of the earth, right...
HARRY M. WYATT III

We need to make sure that we have one another's back and recognize the fact that patriots come i...
HARRY M. WYATT III

Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, i...
JOHNSON

Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely ne...
JOHNSON

He that never thinks can never be wise.
JOHNSON

The true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.
JOHNSON

Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon t...
JOHNSON

To hear complaints is tiresome to the miserable and the happy.
JOHNSON

When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by othe...
JOHNSON

When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complai...
JOHNSON

Laws teach us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it.
JOHNSON

Language is the pedigree of nations.
JOHNSON

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that...
JOHNSON

There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in co...
JOHNSON

If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser.
JOHNSON

No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.
JOHNSON

Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but...
JOHNSON

To have gold is to be in fear, and to want it to be sorrow.
JOHNSON

The Negro people of America... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of their trials they have manifested a simple faith, a grateful heart, a cheerful spirit, and an undivided loyalty .

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Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

The Negro people of America... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of their trials they have manifested a simple faith, a grateful heart, a cheerful spirit, and an undivided loyalty .

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