Elijah Kelley quote: "Growing up in Georgia, it was sort of the last place to jump on the bandwagon of the integrated frontier. I have aunts and uncles and grandparents that experienced the 'whites only' and segregated schools."

The biggest difference between L.A. and my hometown in Georgia is when Georgia goes to sleep, L.A. w...
ELIJAH KELLEY

I'd love to do Broadway. It's funny. I love it, but I've never actually seen an actual B...
ELIJAH KELLEY

I want to be known as a triple threat. I have aspirations to win an Oscar and a Grammy, and I also w...
ELIJAH KELLEY

I saw 'Hairspray' at the Pantages in L.A. It came to the Pantages right before I did the mov...
ELIJAH KELLEY

John Travolta, I don't think anybody would not jump at a chance to work with a guy like him beca...
ELIJAH KELLEY

'Party Up' is like 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' crossed with 'House Party.'...
ELIJAH KELLEY

I did everything in high school - I played tennis, I played basketball, I was in chorus, I was in th...
ELIJAH KELLEY

I have a growing resume, but it's because I'm very selective. There are a lot of actors in m...
ELIJAH KELLEY

I can dance - I can dance a little bit. I can move. I don't - I'm not a - I don't procla...
ELIJAH KELLEY

When I graduated from high school, my mom and dad were saying I needed to go to college, but I said ...
ELIJAH KELLEY

I grew up in a really small town: LaGrange, Georgia. There weren't a lot of creative outlets the...
ELIJAH KELLEY

In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.
ELIJAH WOOD

The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor's degr...
ELIJAH CUMMINGS

I'm not a star!!! A star is nothing but a ball of gas!!!
ELIJAH WOOD

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.
ELIJAH WOOD

I definitely don't look my age. So I actively look for roles that will help people change their ...
ELIJAH WOOD

African-American women account for 67 percent of all newly diagnosed female AIDS cases.
ELIJAH CUMMINGS

By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutc...
ELIJAH CUMMINGS

I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.
ELIJAH WOOD

Anything is possible with the power of positive thinking
ELIJAH FARMER

Without the darkness the light would be lonely, without hate, true love could never be tangible, wit...
ELIJAH GERMAIN

Why be two faced when you only have one
ELIJAH JONES

You're saying to the people of the United States that you all made no mistakes. I've got to go back ...
ELIJAH CUMMINGS

We need to act as fast as we can to create that diplomatic resolution so that we will not have this ...
ELIJAH CUMMINGS

We cannot win this race by doing the same things we've been doing, ... I thank Howard Dean for makin...
ELIJAH CUMMINGS

I had expected an expression of regret or apology from Congressman Watt in the subsequent days after...
ELIJAH CUMMINGS

Men, women and children, our fellow countrymen have now gone days - days - without food and far too ...
ELIJAH CUMMINGS

To the president of the United States, I simply say that God cannot be pleased with our response,
ELIJAH CUMMINGS

Many of these Americans who now are struggling to survive are Americans of color. We cannot allow it...
ELIJAH CUMMINGS

[Two members who have seen the records, Reps. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., and Elijah Cummings, D-Md., sa...
ELIJAH CUMMINGS

[Fueling momentum for the legislation has been a feeling that Palmeiro's suspension was an affront t...
ELIJAH CUMMINGS

I heard him say that. I remember that a number of people got kind of upset and kind of just drifted ...
ELIJAH CUMMINGS

The picture was being painted that things were not as bad as they appeared to be
ELIJAH CUMMINGS

I'm very concerned and very upset that anybody who would issue such a statement would be in the lead...
ELIJAH CUMMINGS

It seems as if there are some police who believe that it is their job to not only arrest, but to con...
ELIJAH CUMMINGS

If I'm a regular citizen and I'm looking at this and I've got the top flight people in the drug war ...
ELIJAH CUMMINGS

though many may disagree with the war, ... Toccara was pursing her dream.
ELIJAH CUMMINGS

We cannot allow it to be said by history that the difference between those who lived and those who d...
ELIJAH CUMMINGS

The Relationship Between God And I Is Beyond Human Comprehension, Therefore, Pay No Attention To Any...
ELIJAH ONYENMERIOGU

You just assume that you have some anan, ana, ananonimity, anonymity? Yeah, anonimity.
ELIJAH WOOD

There's a real purity in New Zealand that doesn't exist in the states. It's actually not...
ELIJAH WOOD

Blues was the rap of the 1920s and 1930s. It was a new popular style that so-called respectable peop...
ELIJAH WALD

I don't know that I necessarily feel more comfortable in the context of smaller films, but I tend to...
ELIJAH WOOD

I'm not a star!!! A star is notthing but a ball of gas!!!
ELIJAH WOOD

On a superficial level, I like girls with dark hair - I'm a sucker for that.
ELIJAH WOOD

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,
ELIJAH WOOD

I'm gonna keep it in the fridge. You know. Its a food item.
ELIJAH WOOD

That's all right. You can call me Frodo. Go on, Dave, it's okay.
ELIJAH WOOD

So much time is wasted on trying to be better than others.
ELIJAH WOOD

Dream the impossible because dreams do come true.
ELIJAH WOOD

In the absense of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.
ELIJAH WOOD

I think there were a few things that really interested me. One was that I didn't know a lot about ho...
ELIJAH WOOD

The idea of developing something from the ground up and ultimately seeing it through to production a...
ELIJAH WOOD

Green Street Hooligans,
ELIJAH WOOD

It's a film called 'Bobby,' ... It's about the day that Robert Kennedy was shot at the Ambassador Ho...
ELIJAH WOOD

Of all the films I've worked on, that is among my favorites. It's an incredibly beautiful film. (Lev...
ELIJAH WOOD

He's kind of this empty vessel of a character, ... His awkward sensibilities, his neuroses, I loved ...
ELIJAH WOOD

But everybody there knew 'Lord of the Rings,' ... It's really amazing.
ELIJAH WOOD

Getting away from Frodo comes up a lot,
ELIJAH WOOD

'LOTR' was a landmark experience in my career, ... And it's where I helped to define myself as a hum...
ELIJAH WOOD

I'm proud of Dominic. We're good friends.
ELIJAH WOOD

This festival is amazing. I've wanted to come here for so long, and to be here for just a night is t...
ELIJAH WOOD

'Those eyes!' ... I've heard that my whole life. I'm actually quite blind. I wear contacts.
ELIJAH WOOD

[Watching a fellow actor direct for the first time was] an education ... I feel that for the past 16...
ELIJAH WOOD

The story ends up being a journey of self-discovery.
ELIJAH WOOD

I actually got a crush on Anne Heche when I worked with her on Huckleberry Finn. It didn't work out.
ELIJAH WOOD

You know, it's been a long time since that dance,
ELIJAH WOOD

At the base, it's about a man from America who doesn't quite fit in, with the comedy that entails. E...
ELIJAH WOOD

It was kind of unique and great to have two films coming out within a week. It certainly was a diffe...
ELIJAH WOOD

In some ways that's more gratifying, it requires more of your own energy and your own input, and eve...
ELIJAH WOOD

If you cut off your arm instead of going 'spurt, spurt, spurt' wouldn't it, like, go nuts? Or would ...
ELIJAH WOOD

There's a real purity in New Zealand that doesn't exist in the states. It's actually not an easy thi...
ELIJAH WOOD

I talk to Dom all the time, but he still won't tell me any of the good plot twists for next season's...
ELIJAH WOOD

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to...
ELIJAH WOOD

I'm a fruit.
ELIJAH WOOD

It had a profound impact on me as a human being, and I did a lot of growing within that, so that wil...
ELIJAH WOOD

Feature the good culture to never be like the vulture that doesn't have a good posture in the pictur...
ELIJAH ONYENMERIOGU

Hello! I'm Elijah Wood, and i'm a looser!
ELIJAH WOOD

Those who foresee a dull,dark future, foresee a duller, darker self.
ELIJAH VAUGHT

Normally, my first impression would have been this is not good. But I've come around.
ELIJAH CUMMINGS

We cannot allow it to be said by history that the difference between those who lived and those who d...
ELIJAH CUMMINGS

The Congressional Black Caucus is deeply disappointed that the president's actions this week with re...
ELIJAH CUMMINGS

We believe 300 to 400 troops going in there, along with our allies, could bring about the peace. The...
ELIJAH CUMMINGS

a distinguished leader who championed the rights of all Americans.
ELIJAH CUMMINGS

Wink, wink! Nudge, nudge!
ELIJAH WOOD

You can build a tree, if you plant a seed.
ELIJAH VAUGHT

It is right to write and say what is right at the right time
ELIJAH ONYENMERIOGU

The moment you cross the border of your country to another, nature will blow you the breeze of revol...
ELIJAH ONYENMERIOGU

I definitely don't look my age, ... So I actively look for roles that will help people change their ...
ELIJAH WOOD

I do think there was an active choice to do something small, as simple as it may sound, just so I di...
ELIJAH WOOD

Lord of the Rings ... Bobby.
ELIJAH WOOD

It was a wonderful project to work on, and a very different character for me.
ELIJAH WOOD

I loved the story of these three characters [Wood's American Jonathan, his Ukrainian interpreter Ale...
ELIJAH WOOD

I really have the greatest time at these events because I am a fan first, I am a gamer, I am a film ...
ELIJAH WOOD

Oh, it's pretty consistent,
ELIJAH WOOD

The Good Son.
ELIJAH WOOD

I credit my mom [Debbie] for creating a solid family base, ... She gave me a strong sense of reality...
ELIJAH WOOD

He had a very clear vision of what he wanted to do artistically, visually, ... I wanted to be part o...
ELIJAH WOOD

Not just a benchmark in my career, but a benchmark in my life,
ELIJAH WOOD

I'm scared to death of doing it, because I love him (Iggy Pop) so much and I respect the music so mu...
ELIJAH WOOD

I watched the Lost series in the US and it's great.
ELIJAH WOOD

I loved the story, the comedy and how emotional it becomes. It was also an opportunity to do somethi...
ELIJAH WOOD

I'll play a character who is getting married to a woman to avoid the draft. Ultimately they fall in ...
ELIJAH WOOD

an amazing thing to . . . have that kind of impact on people.
ELIJAH WOOD

I had a woman breakdown and cry when she met me which was difficult to deal with because immediately...
ELIJAH WOOD

My God! Middle Earth does exist!
ELIJAH WOOD

I'm kind of insane when it comes to music, a little obsessed.
ELIJAH WOOD

It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil ...
ELIJAH CUMMINGS

It's fantastic, are you kidding? To sort of be part of this project from the ground up, from the scr...
ELIJAH WOOD

Understanding is the antidote against antagonism in every relationship.
ELIJAH ONYENMERIOGU

The worst kind of lying I've ever done is keeping things from people.
ELIJAH WOOD

Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that...
ELIJAH CUMMINGS

After disco, there really was a change. Generally, there were no more straight-up-Southern blues-roo...
ELIJAH WALD

Nowadays in the black community, you'll find older people interested in the blues simply because it'...
ELIJAH WALD

We're urging governments to stop getting these old aircraft.
ELIJAH HINGOSSO

We've witnessed accidents in countries with conflict, like Congo, Angola and Sudan. Many of these fl...
ELIJAH HINGOSSO

It's just like home down there [at Pitt]. It's like a home away from home. They treat me like family...
ELIJAH FIELDS

It didn't really matter what position. I'm open to anything, but I want to mainly play wide receiver...
ELIJAH FIELDS

Pitt was a home away from home. I felt comfortable there. I've got a good relationship with all the ...
ELIJAH FIELDS

I took advantage of it. I expected to come here and show what I could do. I just have to keep workin...
ELIJAH DUKES

See, the thing is, I'm not only training for the Devil Rays, I'm training for the other teams, too. ...
ELIJAH DUKES

You watch [the ball] out of their hand and you pretty much tell whether it's going to be a good pitc...
ELIJAH DUKES

My first three years, I'm swinging at anything regardless of where it's at -- inside, outside, [it] ...
ELIJAH DUKES

I mean it's just like all the hard work is starting to pay off now. I'm taking pitches and I'm looki...
ELIJAH DUKES

I don't carry over. Like if I drop a ball in the outfield, I won't carry it over to the plate. Or if...
ELIJAH DUKES

I just go out there and try to do my job every day. [I] just try to work hard and do the little thin...
ELIJAH DUKES

I learned that you can be a good ballplayer but if the spot is occupied and everybody comes out and ...
ELIJAH DUKES

I expected to come here and show what I could do. I took advantage of it.
ELIJAH DUKES

That's real important, because I need to get my body going to get ready to play every day. I'd rathe...
ELIJAH DUKES

The young black man is on a dangerous trajectory. We need to come up with ideas on how to resolve th...
ELIJAH ANDERSON

We are trying to put this demographic in the national spotlight. This conference will address the pr...
ELIJAH ANDERSON

The young men we're talking about have been affected by all kinds of sources including historical ra...
ELIJAH ANDERSON

We came together. We had been playing as individuals and coach (Blair) Albright was getting mad at u...
ELIJAH ALLEN

Coach Hill built a relationship with me from an early age. He taught me things that went beyond the ...
ELIJAH ALLEN

In the same vein as these events, National Minority Health Month also serves as a reminder of how mu...
ELIJAH CUMMINGS

Typically diagnosed during childhood and adolescent years, juvenile diabetes, also referred to as Ty...
ELIJAH CUMMINGS

Their effort to place the women upon the same industrial level with themselves in order that all may...
FLORENCE KELLEY

This was just one of many times God has spared me.
JACK KELLEY

Rather than hearing from the city council president, you'd hear from sources all across the coun...
JACK KELLEY

I've never fabricated or plagiarized anything.
JACK KELLEY

The people who knew me and knew my work and trusted me, they knew then as they do now that I've ...
JACK KELLEY

I never saw myself as being ambitious, I saw myself as being in love with the profession. I'm a ...
JACK KELLEY

JFK used to say the bishops and the cardinals were all Republicans, but the nuns were Democrats! I s...
KITTY KELLEY

II grew up in Australia, but I'm not from there originally. Like, my dad's South American, s...
NATHALIE KELLEY

When you play a character, there's always a part of you. Like, you always bring out a side of yo...
NATHALIE KELLEY

I'm such a girl because all the guys go for cars because of their engines or something like that...
NATHALIE KELLEY

I feel that 'Tokoyo Drift' blew people away because not many people had high expectations fo...
NATHALIE KELLEY

My wife and I met right down the street. Our single, 'Just a Kiss' is kind of about that mom...
CHARLES KELLEY

In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak a...
FLORENCE KELLEY

Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of t...
FLORENCE KELLEY

My fourteen-year-old sister Lara is a brat. Unfortunately, no one sees it but me. To everyone else, ...
KELLEY ARMSTRONG

Something hit the floor with a crack. Nate turned and looked down to see his cell phone on the floor...
KELLEY ARMSTRONG

Simon whispered to me, “But is everything okay?”
“No,” Tori said. “I kidnapped her an...
KELLEY ARMSTRONG

Bright lights cast dark shadows when shone from only one direction.
DAVID KELLEY

This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and ...
FLORENCE KELLEY

The very fact that women now form about one-fifth of the employes in manufacture and commerce in thi...
FLORENCE KELLEY

Both Kennedy and Obama exuded a dash of glamour in their roles as commander-in-chief and became the ...
KITTY KELLEY

John F. Kennedy brought style and charisma to the White House and a first family that captivated the...
KITTY KELLEY

It wasn't until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own wor...
KELLEY ARMSTRONG

It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bod...
FLORENCE KELLEY

Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to ensure fair pay for women in the workplace. In addi...
KITTY KELLEY

In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself bette...
FLORENCE KELLEY

Star Trek is perhaps the best thing that ever happened to me, in a career sense.
DEFOREST KELLEY

I m up at 5 in the morning and in bed by 10 in the evening.
DEFOREST KELLEY

What I truly miss the most is having sufficient time to do all the things that need to be done aroun...
DEFOREST KELLEY

I have considered myself a mature actor.
DEFOREST KELLEY

I had fallen in love with California.
DEFOREST KELLEY

My father started me singing in church.
DEFOREST KELLEY

I have no aspiration whatsoever to be the next great leading man.
DEFOREST KELLEY

I am still seeking to become firmly established as an actor.
DEFOREST KELLEY

It was a perfectly average well- adjusted childhood, not a bit unlike that of millions of other indi...
DEFOREST KELLEY

You see, I was the son of a baptist minister.
DEFOREST KELLEY

I once aged 90 years old in one episode.
DEFOREST KELLEY

I refuse to be crude and selfish in any way.
DEFOREST KELLEY

I have been exposed to a great amount of temptation throughout the course of my career.
DEFOREST KELLEY

Star Trek has brought so much of what I want within my grasp.
DEFOREST KELLEY

I have deep feelings for the welfare and comfort of others.
DEFOREST KELLEY

My ambition is peace and perfection.
DEFOREST KELLEY

I ran around with the other youngsters, hunting, fishing and raising tadpoles and all the rest.
DEFOREST KELLEY

The most important influence in my childhood was my father.
DEFOREST KELLEY

The workingmen have perceived that women are in the field of industry to stay; and they see, too, th...
FLORENCE KELLEY

The rumors of Frank Sinatra's violence and his ties to organized crime were such that journalist...
KITTY KELLEY

I walked over to the paper and bent as the pencil began scribbling across it.
You look OK. ...
KELLEY ARMSTRONG

Growing up in Georgia, it was sort of the last place to jump on the bandwagon of the integrated frontier. I have aunts and uncles and grandparents that experienced the 'whites only' and segregated schools.

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Growing up in Georgia, it was sort of the last place to jump on the bandwagon of the integrated frontier. I have aunts and uncles and grandparents that experienced the 'whites only' and segregated schools.

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