King Quotes - page 69

It came upon the midnight clear, That glorious song of old, From Angels bending near the earth To touch their harps of gold; "Peace on the earth, good will to man From Heaven's all gracious King." The world in solemn stillness lay To hear the angels sing. (Edmund Sears)
In the Laws of Cnut, it was formally laid down that no one is to bother the King with his complaints, so long as he can get Justice in the Hundred. View quote
Edward Jenks
Every man, noble and simple alike, should hold his land as a pledge of god behaviour. His duties, to King, lord, and neighbour, should be settled once and for all; and, if he failed in them, he should be turned out of his home and left to starve. It was a drastic scheme; but a conqueror holding a conquered country by the force of the sword cannot afford to be squeamish. View quote
Edward Jenks
The desertion of Jesus, by his followers, furnishes an argument in support of the supposition that he attempted to be king of the Jews, rather than that he was a superior being. View quote
Lysander Spooner
I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint. View quote
Ralph Abernathy
I loved Martin Luther King more than a brother. View quote
Ralph Abernathy
I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have. View quote
Ralph Abernathy
Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, with its born-again regression, its pink-and-gold concept of heaven, its literal-mindedness, its rambunctious good cheer... its anti-intellectualism... its puerile hymns... and its faith-healing... are made to order for King Kid America. View quote
Florence King
America is not a democracy, it's an absolute monarchy ruled by King Kid. In a nation of immigrants, the child is automatically more of an American than his parents. Americans regard children as what Mr. Hudson in ''Upstairs, Downstairs'' called ''betters.'' Aping their betters, American adults do their best to turn themselves into children. Puerility exercises droit de seigneur everywhere. View quote
Florence King
To play King Richard to somebody else's Wat Tyler has always been a Tory fancy. View quote
G. M. Young
Our third American Tragedy is Martin Luther King. King was Mario Cuomo and Stevenson another way. Oh, he had some Roosevelt will to power, but Cuomo has a will to power, and Stevenson had a little, maybe more than I'm giving him credit for. He was who you wanted it to be, in a way. Old America. We're singing spirituals again. We're having dreams again. Well, that left mechanization entirely out of the question. There was no Hollywood there. There were no gangsters there. There was no World War II victory there. I hope everyone understands I'm being completely nonracist when I say he was Adlai Stevenson another way. (George W. S. Trow)
But yonder comes the powerful king of day, Rejoicing in the east. View quote
James Thomson (poet)
I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively... writing songs was king. View quote
Jakob Dylan
In 1974, when I started working with the material that became Horses, a lot of our great voices had died. We'd lost Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin, and people like Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. View quote
Patti Smith
Health is the greatest of all possessions; a pale cobbler is better than a sick king. View quote
Isaac Bickerstaffe
All of the guests on 'Faces of America' were deeply moved by what we revealed about their ancestry. We were able to trace the ancestry of Native American writer Louise Erdrich back to 438 A.D. We found that Queen Noor is descended from royalty, and that's before she married King Hussein of Jordan. View quote
Henry Louis Gates
If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race. View quote
Henry Louis Gates
Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or below the poverty line is almost the same. View quote
Henry Louis Gates
The glory of the king of all the kings. You with the golden power on your brows, You kings, I think you know not what you are. First you shall learn yourselves: for neither light Understandeth itself, nor darkness light. View quote
Lascelles Abercrombie
I'm as close to retarded as you can get and still live alone, I'll admit that. If there was an island for retarded people, I would be their king. They would be like "he can cut his own meat, he will lead us!" View quote
Mitch Fatel
We know well the means by which this association of the lord, priest, merchant, judge, soldier, and king founded its domination. It was by the annihilation of all free unions: of village communities, guilds, trades unions, fraternities, and mediæval cities. (Peter Kropotkin)
Why think of anything at all but the pretty, gentle child sitting high upon the white horse! So women holding up their children to see her pass cried blessings on her head, the easy blessings of a crowd, that may turn at any moment to curses. And there were wenches in plenty, who, seeing the little Queen in cloth of gold and the King at her side, handsome Richard, wished themselves, no doubt, in her place. View quote
Hilda Lewis
I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose. View quote
Liam Neeson
A king there was once reigning, Who had a goodly flea, Him loved he without feigning, As his own son were he. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I went to Saudi Arabia in 2010, and spent most of my time in Jeddah and the King Abdullah Economic City. View quote
Dave Eggers