#mans

We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#greatness #mansion #measure #must #up

During my first visit, I was really struck by how deeply religious many Oklahomans are. It is a very conservative state and as somebody who grew up in a very liberal country, it was jarring to me at first. ↗

— Famke Janssen

#country #deeply #during #first #grew

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#i #i think #necessary #romans #should

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#citizen #every #free #free state #greeks

We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective. ↗

— Waylon Jennings

#album #being #called #civil #civil war

If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. ↗

— Billy Joel

#expression #feelings #human #human needs #humanity

But what really excited me was the idea that humans had a tremendous pre-history that went back millions of years. I wanted to go to Africa to find some of these creatures. ↗

— Donald Johanson

#back #creatures #excited #find #go

The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#get #humans #i #individuality #less

The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#american people #any #bowl #bread #comfortable

It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that. ↗

— Diane Kruger

#am #bury #christmas #christmas eve #dead