Al Washington quote: "They ripped my helmet off and punched me in the face when I was in the pile. The offensive guy ran the wrong route and the quarterback threw deep, right to me."

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AL WASHINGTON

You're either treated special or you're not given a chance. As a black football player, some profess...
AL WASHINGTON

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, b...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

I think generalizations of any sort are dangerous. I'll say, if that is the case - right now it&...
KERRY WASHINGTON

What I would like to be remembered for is that Walter Washington changed the spirit of the people of...
WALTER WASHINGTON

Mine has been a concern for the people, a concern to maintain stability, a concern to get people wor...
WALTER WASHINGTON

Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal...
WASHINGTON IRVING

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
WASHINGTON IRVING

There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad ...
WASHINGTON IRVING

There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in tra...
WASHINGTON IRVING

The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
WASHINGTON IRVING

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
WASHINGTON IRVING

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
WASHINGTON IRVING

There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad dayligh...
WASHINGTON IRVING

Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.
WASHINGTON ALLSTON

Never judge a work of art by its defects.
WASHINGTON ALLSTON

The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
WASHINGTON ALLSTON

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of a...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dis...
MARTHA WASHINGTON

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances...
MARTHA WASHINGTON

I live a very dull life here... indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
MARTHA WASHINGTON

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly...
WASHINGTON IRVING

Everything is not black-and-white. I'm really interested in the gray area - not justifying it, n...
ISAIAH WASHINGTON

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your prepa...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before i...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; with...
DENZEL WASHINGTON

It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Should the States reject this excellent Constitution, the probability is, an opportunity will never ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

If in the opinion of the People, the distribution or modification of the Constitutional powers be in...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly forsee that nothing but ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

You will therefore send me none but Natives, and Men of some property, if you have them.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

To morrow being the day set apart by the Honorable Congress for public Thanksgiving and Praise; and ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in h...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

We should never despair, our Situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, s...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

No People can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand, which conducts the Affairs of me...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoy...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Enjoin this upon the Officers, and let them inculcate, and press home to the Soldiery, the Necessity...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppre...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

To admit then a right in the House of Representatives to demand, and to have as a matter of course, ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free Country should inspire caution in t...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

For if Men are to be precluded from offering their Sentiments on a matter, which may involve the mos...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

For happily the government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

I have beheld no day since the commencement of hostilities that I have thought her liberties in such...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be draw...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

I'm not a film buff. I don't watch a lot of movies.
DENZEL WASHINGTON

The liberality of sentiment toward each other, which marks every political and religious denominat...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shr...
WASHINGTON IRVING

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
WASHINGTON IRVING

A woman's life is a history of the affections.
WASHINGTON IRVING

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them you...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Justice is the firm and continuous desire to render to everyone that which is his due
GEORGE WASHINGTON

The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability ...
WASHINGTON IRVING

The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pr...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

To point out the importance of circumspection in your conduct, it may be proper to observe that a go...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, Oh, I don'...
DENZEL WASHINGTON

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence -- it is force.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.
WASHINGTON IRVING

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is ent...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contendi...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumst...
MARTHA WASHINGTON

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their...
WASHINGTON IRVING

I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no busi...
WASHINGTON IRVING

It is well, I die hard, but I am not afraid to go.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with cons...
WASHINGTON IRVING

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my...
DENZEL WASHINGTON

They who drink beer will think beer.
WASHINGTON IRVING

My Mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my Mother. I attribute all my s...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity t...
WASHINGTON IRVING

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
WASHINGTON IRVING

In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinio...
WASHINGTON IRVING

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil ...
WASHINGTON IRVING

'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.
WASHINGTON IRVING

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience
GEORGE WASHINGTON

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in traveli...
WASHINGTON IRVING

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better be alone...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be suppla...
WASHINGTON IRVING

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we...
WASHINGTON IRVING

There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
WASHINGTON IRVING

It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
WASHINGTON IRVING

Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wis...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

The great British Library -- one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern a...
WASHINGTON IRVING

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with other...
WASHINGTON IRVING

Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No -- no, your lea...
WASHINGTON IRVING

I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than b...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
WASHINGTON IRVING

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more elo...
WASHINGTON IRVING

Yet, still, from either beach, The voice of blood shall reach, More audible than speech, ...
WASHINGTON ALLSTON

'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

To be prepared for War is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the Constitution to a man who will bu...
CRAIG WASHINGTON

As I sat on a sunny bank On Christmas day in the morning I spied three ships come sailing in.
WASHINGTON IRVING

I anticipate with pleasing expectations that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without a...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad dayl...
WASHINGTON IRVING

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispo...
MARTHA WASHINGTON

Avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigoro...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them you...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Written about Washington after his death by another of the founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson: His m...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

To err is natural; to rectify error is glory.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

In his address of 19 September 1796, given as he prepared to leave office, President George Washingt...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving the peace.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

I die hard but am not afraid to go.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

I am for free commerce with all nations; political connection with none; and little or no diplomatic...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who wo...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon
GEORGE WASHINGTON

As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselve...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

An army of asses led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by an ass
GEORGE WASHINGTON

"The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just p...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that action, not words, are the true c...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity befo...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

When it was reported to General Washington that the army was frequently indulging in swearing, he im...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

One of his officers, Henry Lee, summed up contemporary public opinion of Washington: First in war, f...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the plac...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Following his brief inaugural address to the Congress, President George Washington and his party wal...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Our country's honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

When I contemplate the interposition of Providence, as it was visibly manifested, in guiding us thro...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my succe...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity tak...
WASHINGTON IRVING

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

His very faults smack of the raciness of his good qualities.
WASHINGTON IRVING

Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men, any more than fine feathers make fine birds. A plai...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a f...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposi...
MARTHA WASHINGTON

There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with other...
WASHINGTON IRVING

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

It is better to be alone than in bad company.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

I'm here not just as an actress but as a woman, an African-American, a granddaughter of Ellis Is...
KERRY WASHINGTON

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proporti...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we...
WASHINGTON IRVING

I think sometimes in life we want to ignore the problems of society and just think about the good. I...
KERRY WASHINGTON

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan ado...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

I have an amazing social media manager, Allison Peters, who is one of my closest friends since child...
KERRY WASHINGTON

My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is wor...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
MARTHA WASHINGTON

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned...
MARTHA WASHINGTON

You have to grab moments when they happen. I like to improvise and ad lib.
DENZEL WASHINGTON

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitution...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literatu...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaught...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

I work hard for the audience. It's entertainment. I don't need validation.
DENZEL WASHINGTON

When people protest and are upset with a movie, it becomes a big hit. They hated Passion of The Chri...
DENZEL WASHINGTON

I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and th...
DENZEL WASHINGTON

Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it.
DENZEL WASHINGTON

My ultimate life dream project is my kids. My family.
DENZEL WASHINGTON

If you don't trust the pilot, don't go.
DENZEL WASHINGTON

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.
DENZEL WASHINGTON

The last few years I've been saying I was ready to quit. It wasn't that interesting to me. N...
DENZEL WASHINGTON

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque...
DENZEL WASHINGTON

It's simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home...
DENZEL WASHINGTON

The time to worrying about flying is when you're on the ground. When you're up in the air, i...
DENZEL WASHINGTON

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my...
DENZEL WASHINGTON

The poorest people are the sweetest people.
DENZEL WASHINGTON

If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into t...
DENZEL WASHINGTON

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don't just be mad at him or her.
DENZEL WASHINGTON

In any profession it gets to be a grind.
DENZEL WASHINGTON

When I was a child I thought I saw an angel. It had wings and kinda looked like my sister. I opened ...
DENZEL WASHINGTON

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.
DENZEL WASHINGTON

I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical backgro...
DENZEL WASHINGTON

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.
DENZEL WASHINGTON

I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frigh...
DENZEL WASHINGTON

You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it.
DENZEL WASHINGTON

I think a role model is a mentor - someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.
DENZEL WASHINGTON

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it.
DENZEL WASHINGTON

It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supp...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoy...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity...
WASHINGTON IRVING

I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get...
DENZEL WASHINGTON

Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away a...
WASHINGTON IRVING

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them you...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husband...
WASHINGTON IRVING

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Eu...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

They ripped my helmet off and punched me in the face when I was in the pile. The offensive guy ran the wrong route and the quarterback threw deep, right to me.

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