#we

Our village was built on the Ohio River, and was a halting place on this great national road, then the only avenue of traffic between the South and the North. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#between #built #great #halting #national

Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#between #calm #chimney #commonest #corner

TO preach a sermon or edit a newspaper were the two things in life which I always felt I could do with credit to myself and benefit to the world, if I only had the chance. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#benefit #chance #could #credit #edit

Most orgies that you go to, I have found, most of it is sad. All that wildness, all those laughs were like the shining silver and gold paper on packages, but there was nothing inside. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#go #gold #i #inside #laughs

May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#caught #legally #married #may #prison

We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#assassination #could #him #king #pay

Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers? ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#barriers #better #child #erect #fewer

And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things. ↗

— Viola Davis

#did #extraordinary #extraordinary things #fascinating #help

I think that's something that people feel that I do really well; I don't mind it, because ultimately I think the characters I play move people, and who wouldn't want to move people? ↗

— Viola Davis

#characters #feel #i #i do #i think

In life, you know, they do this in focus groups; if you were in such and such circumstance, what would you do? Well, you never know what you're going do unless you're faced with it. ↗

— Viola Davis

#faced #focus #focus groups #going #groups