#quest

Beautiful? It's all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest... beautiful, no. Amusing, yes. ↗

— Josephine Baker

#beautiful #born #good #i #i was born

The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor - all conductors are white - ask a Negro woman to get up and take a seat farther back in order to make a place for a white man. I have also seen white men requested to leave the Negro section of the car. ↗

— Ray Stannard Baker

#ask #atlanta #back #car #conductor

Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape. ↗

— Ray Stannard Baker

#back #every #gets #later #lynching

In the beginning I thought, and still think, he did great good in giving support and encouragement to this movement. But I did not believe then, and have never believed since, that these ills can be settled by partisan political methods. They are moral and economic questions. ↗

— Ray Stannard Baker

#believe #believed #did #economic #encouragement

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth. ↗

— Natalie Clifford Barney

#old #question #years #young #youth

As mayor of Milwaukee, I've had many developers come and many businesses come and have asked for financial assistance from the city, and my questions have always been: how many jobs are we talking about and are these family-supporting jobs. ↗

— Tom Barrett

#always #asked #assistance #been #businesses

Whenever I do a book, I'm usually guided by a question or something that I'm trying to tease out. ↗

— Lynda Barry

#guided #i #i do #out #question

The question of how the eye works - that is, what happens when a photon of light first impinges on the retina - simply could not be answered at that time. ↗

— Michael Behe

#could #eye #first #happens #how

To tell you the truth, it's a complex piece, so I can't really answer your question at present. ↗

— Paul Darrow

#complex #i #piece #present #question

So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman, and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the way, and I found that he knew my father well, and remembered his tragic death in Salt Creek Valley. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#became #creek #death #fast #father