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Desmond Tutu Quote: “The minute you got the Nobel…”

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it – oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

October 27, 2021 1931, Desmond Tutu, October 7, Quotes by Leaders, South African

Bill Nye Quote: “I’ve got no problem with anybody’s…”

I’ve got no problem with anybody’s religion. But if you go claiming the Earth is only 10,000 years old, that’s just wrong.

October 6, 2021 1955, American, Bill Nye, November 27, Quotes by Educators

Sojourner Truth Quote: “If women want any rights more…”

If women want any rights more than they’s got, why don’t they just take them, and not be talking about it.

October 4, 2021 1787, American, November 18, Quotes by Activists, Sojourner Truth

David McCullough Quote: “With the Truman book, I wrote…”

With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his tracks in the war. When I got there, there was a certain satisfaction in finding I had it right – it does look like that.

October 4, 2021 1933, American, David McCullough, July 7, Quotes by Historians

Henrik Ibsen Quote: “I’m afraid for all those who’ll…”

I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

September 29, 2021 1828, Henrik Ibsen, March 20, Norwegian, Quotes by Poets

Robert Hass Quote: “I got interested in the question…”

I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don’t read books.

September 25, 2021 1941, American, March 1, Quotes by Poets, Robert Hass

Simon Armitage Quote: “I’d got to a point where…”

I’d got to a point where I wanted a break.

September 13, 2021 1963, British, May 26, Quotes by Poets, Simon Armitage

Harriet Tubman Quote: “In my dreams and visions, I…”

In my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fields, and lovely flowers, and beautiful white ladies, who stretched out their arms to me over the line, but I couldn’t reach them no-how. I always fell before I got to the line.

September 4, 2021 1820, American, Harriet Tubman, Quotes by Activists

Bill Nye Quote: “Everybody who’s a physician, who makes…”

Everybody who’s a physician, who makes vaccines, who wants to find the cure for cancer. Everybody who wants to do any medical good for humankind got the passion for that before he or she was 10.

August 19, 2021 1955, American, Bill Nye, November 27, Quotes by Educators

Sylvia Ashton-Warner Quote: “I’ve got to relearn what I…”

I’ve got to relearn what I was supposed to have learned.

August 13, 2021 1908, December 17, New Zealander, Quotes by Educators, Sylvia Ashton-Warner

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