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He was ahead of his time, ... He showed African-Americans how they could be part of the landscape of this country.


Earl Graves

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MAXINE WATERS I think he was very ahead of his time in his thinking because he could see what we were doing to Mot...
ALICE BILLINGS If you claim to be ahead of time, please check the clock. If the clock shows time, then either you a...
APURVA GAGLANI I don't even know how he could form his mouth to say that. (Freeman) showed how backwards he is. Obv...
CONRAD WORRILL His history of exploiting African-Americans means he is going to have to prove himself.
BARRY SAUNDERS He was really far ahead of his time. He saw something that was out there.
TED KENNEDY Ibsen wrote a kind of Times best seller; he wasn't 100 years ahead of his time -- he was 10 years ah...
LEE BREUER Cuban-Americans view him as part of the administration, and said if he really believed what he was s...
DARIO MORENO I love Benny Hill. He one of my favourites of aaall time. Like, the way Benny did it, he was just am...
SNOOP DOGG The punishment a person usually gets for being ahead of his time is suffering.
APURVA GAGLANI Whatever he could do to keep busy and be a part of the team. He did whatever needed to be done. He e...
JOE GORDILLO He is putting the good of country and party ahead of his own personal ambitions.
CHUCK GRASSLEY He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen an...
CORMAC MCCARTHY innuendos' that Rehnquist was insensitive to African Americans. None of that was manifested in any o...
ANDREW NAPOLITANO 'innuendos' that Rehnquist was insensitive to African Americans. None of that was manifested in any ...
ANDREW NAPOLITANO You couldn't find anything bad to say about him. You couldn't criticize his coaching. He was superb....
RICK MAJERUS He was dominant, and we told him, when he gets ahead of hitters, he's going to be dominant. He was a...
MIKE LIEBDZINSKI The commitment to literacy was constant on the part of African Americans. And the percentages of lit...
DAVID LEVERING LEWIS People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this c...
BOB COUSY I think (Burton) is a great picker, and he was ahead of his time,
JEFF COOK This was our first visit to an African country and South African conditions of detention could certa...
LEILA ZERROUGUI He recognized this was an important niche, but I would also argue that he saw himself as contributin...
LONNIE BUNCH Germany was his favorite place to live, he said, because, even as a child, he could tell how much th...
IMBOLO MBUE He was a big-time political operator. After he was pushed out of the country, his influence has dwin...
MASHA LIPMAN I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part ...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Dane convinced me that he was up to becoming our head coach by his résumé, which was amazing, and ...
MARK POPE Brandon Morris pitched exceptionally well. He showed a great deal of maturity and showed why he has ...
DARIN HENDRICKSON This was probably one of his better games. He has struggled throughout most of the season, but unlik...
DAVE LONG Earl was a great storyteller, and he could tell them both in Spanish and English. He had the biggest...
FRANK QUILICI He was definitely ahead of his age, way ahead of his age. He was a very driven young man at an early...
DAVE LUNDEY I was optimistic, because I saw how he touched them, how they were inspired by him and his success. ...
PETE MCDANIEL She was the wish of his life. He didn’t know how else to say it. He didn’t even know that he cou...
C.J. CARLYON He always knew that he would have to wait for a long time. That's why he tried to create a role for ...
INGRID SEWARD His dad was a real confidant. He was a real Rock of Gibraltar. I think part of their conversation wa...
DAN HARRIS He could be ahead of schedule, but we're not bringing him back ahead of schedule.
MIKE D'ANTONI How could he convey to someone who'd never even met her the way she always smelled like rain, or how...
JODI PICOULT While this is part of his job, he still takes time to do everything that he can before he returns to...
DON MCCLURE He made the South Seas a great part of his life. Clearly this story comes out of the books he read a...
DAVID THOMSON African Americans are one of the oldest ethnic groups in this country. We been here since the beginn...
TA-NEHISI COATES Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.
POPE JOHN PAUL II Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry a...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimate...
POPE JOHN PAUL II I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly moth...
POPE JOHN PAUL II The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a pro...
POPE JOHN PAUL II From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
POPE JOHN PAUL II An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
POPE JOHN PAUL II Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
POPE JOHN PAUL II The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, on...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressi...
POPE JOHN PAUL II The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not d...
POPE JOHN PAUL II To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law e...
POPE JOHN PAUL II You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day t...
POPE JOHN PAUL II The future starts today, not tomorrow.
POPE JOHN PAUL II The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
POPE JOHN PAUL II Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and b...
POPE JOHN PAUL II The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to re...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.
POPE JOHN PAUL II Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, ther...
POPE JOHN PAUL II There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you...
POPE JOHN PAUL II I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
POPE JOHN PAUL II He showed just how tough he was tonight. You could see a few times where he was really fatigued, but...
DAVE ROSE He was listening. I could see in his eyes he was recording everything. Mentally, he was so far ahead...
GRANT WASHBURN I think it changed the game. I think he was way ahead of his time. He caught the country by surprise...
JAY WRIGHT I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in l...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD He not only saw pictures of African art in books; he was exposed to African art from many of the for...
MARILYN MARTIN At this time of the year, pitching is ahead of hitting. Timing is the biggest thing -- his swing pla...
CHAD EPPERSON He was supposed to be, yes. That was part of the conditions of his release.
JACQUELINE CHAPUT It just showed me the type of person he is, that he was glad that he was here and whatever he could ...
BARRY ALVAREZ Even though he was inside the house, I could still hear Vlad’s sardonic mutter of “Where’s a t...
JEANIENE FROST A major part of his job was deciding when warnings could be ignored, when they could be dealt with a...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE When he gets up there they go this old guy's gonna pitch to me, ha ha, they kind of make fun of him ...
JACKIE BROWN He reminds me of how Maurice did that. He showed he deserves to be the Olympic champion, now he's th...
JOHN SMITH When he was in third grade, even the average person could tell he wasn't some guy just shot-putting ...
JEFF BROHM Duran is a mythological figure in Latin America. He grew up in a time of turbulence because Panama w...
EDGAR RAMIREZ He wants the country to succeed and he wants this Republican majority to govern. And it's his sense ...
DAVID DREIER Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute ...
CASSANDRA WILSON He wanted to care, and he could not care. For he had gone away and he could never come back any more...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I think he was being pressured to pitch for his country. I think the pressure is what made this guy ...
JOE LONGO It's a fine line between success and failure. You need to be ahead of the curve ... just not too far...
GREG KAVANDER The scars of others should teach us caution.
ST. JEROME They talk like angels but they live like men.
ST. JEROME Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not...
SAINT AUGUSTINE The most High approveth not the gifts of the wicked.
SAINT PATRICK I see that already in this present world I am exalted above measure by the Lord. And I was not worth...
SAINT PATRICK He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presen...
SAINT PATRICK I was freeborn according to the flesh; I am born of a father who was a decurion, but I sold my noble...
SAINT PATRICK I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquir...
SAINT PATRICK The Lord discovered to me a sense of my unbelief that, though late, I should remember my transgressi...
SAINT PATRICK Let who will scoff and revile - I will not remain silent; neither will I conceal the signs and wonde...
SAINT PATRICK I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, bec...
SAINT PATRICK I have a Creator who knew all things, even before they were made - even me, his poor little child.
SAINT PATRICK I have vowed to my God to teach the heathen, though I be despised by some.
SAINT PATRICK

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EARL G. GRAVES We keep going back, stronger, not weaker, because we will not allow rejection to beat us down. I...
EARL G. GRAVES We have been fighting for solutions that will spur economic growth and create jobs for all Americans...
SAM GRAVES Part of any solution to get our economy going should include steps to free up our small businesses b...
SAM GRAVES Growing up on a family farm, I know firsthand the challenges of running a small business... challeng...
SAM GRAVES Small businesses win as they get more contracts; workers win as small businesses create jobs; and ta...
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SAM GRAVES Saying that you are advocating on behalf of small business does not grant a license to spend at will...
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SAM GRAVES Kansas City is one of the most convenient airports in the nation.
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SAM GRAVES Government does not create jobs, but it can help set the table for economic growth with the right po...
SAM GRAVES A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending pro...
SAM GRAVES Trade agreements are important because they open up new marketplaces to small businesses, which ulti...
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SAM GRAVES Our priorities are out of whack. We spend too much to protect birds and fish at the expense of peopl...
SAM GRAVES The recession's high unemployment rates may have encouraged people to start sole proprietorships...
SAM GRAVES If we don't enforce visa laws, we basically have open borders.
SAM GRAVES Small companies need capital to invest, expand, and create jobs. And the economy needs a healthy sma...
SAM GRAVES Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a cro...
SAM GRAVES Bringing buyers and sellers together through a single platform is not a new idea - most of us know a...
SAM GRAVES Small business is America's engine of job creation.
SAM GRAVES I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world-to pronounce and to make notations of its e...
MORRIS GRAVES When we stop running up huge budget deficits and start acting responsibly in Washington, we will pro...
SAM GRAVES I used a kind of gray-green early on in my practice for painting steel, to make it look more like it...
MICHAEL GRAVES It's unfortunate. The kids wanted it real bad É we had our opportunities. They m...
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AL GRAVES I have a great group of kids. This hurts us for conference contention, but we can still go out there...
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ADAM GRAVES What a man sows, that shall he and his relations reap.
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SAM GRAVES I understand that the nature of politics sometimes involves fending off frivolous, anonymous allegat...
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ROBERT GRAVES Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet tryin...
ROBERT GRAVES As you are woman, so be lovely:As you are lovely, so be various,Merciful as constant, constant as va...
ROBERT GRAVES No escape, / No such thing; to dream of new dimensions, / Cheating checkmate by painting the king's ...
ROBERT GRAVES Across two counties he can hear / And catch your words before you speak. / The woodlouse or the magg...
ROBERT GRAVES To bring the dead to life / Is no great magic. / Few are wholly dead: / Blow on a dead man's embers ...
ROBERT GRAVES You reading over my shoulder, peering beneath / My writing arm.
ROBERT GRAVES In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.
ROBERT GRAVES Kill if you must, but never hate: Man is but grass and hate is blight, The sun will scorch you soon ...
ROBERT GRAVES I was last in Rome in AD 540 when it was full of Goths and their heavy horses. It has changed a grea...
ROBERT GRAVES I think its good that Columbia State recruits our players. This gives them a chance to continue thei...
CHRIS GRAVES As we enter into our third year supporting the Make-A-Wish Foundation, I am confident the kindness a...
GARY GRAVES To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation o...
ROBERT GRAVES If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.
ROBERT GRAVES Christ of his gentleness, / Thirsting and hungering / Walked in the wilderness; / Soft words of grac...
ROBERT GRAVES The shift is that Lexus, like the vehicles, is behaving differently, more progressively, in working ...
CHRISTOPHER GRAVES I feel like a baseball player again. I was physically prepared before I came to Spring Training this...
DANNY GRAVES We forget cruelty and past betrayal, Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall
ROBERT GRAVES I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities ...
MORRIS GRAVES Death is either an incredible ending to a story or, more often than not if you ask the right questio...
ALEX GRAVES When the EPA says that property owners, farmers, and livestock producers must stomach higher costs, ...
SAM GRAVES Time and time again, the Obama Administration has shown the American people it's willing to abus...
TOM GRAVES To resist the social pressure now put even on one's leisure time, requires a tougher upbringing and ...
ROBERT GRAVES In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.
MICHAEL GRAVES There's always the pressure on the director of how to transition from one scene to another, espe...
ALEX GRAVES The urge to act became the overriding force in my life. It thrilled me. There's a moment with ac...
RUPERT GRAVES As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they ...
SAM GRAVES