Speak Quotes

We decided to speak publicly about suicide because we wanted to make a difference in other people's lives.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.

My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak.

Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.

It took me a year to really learn the American lingo. I really feel for people who are coming here and don't speak English at all. It must be hell.

I work with youth offenders in LA, I've heard them speak and see how music manipulates them.

I went from somebody who didn't sing to somebody who didn't speak.

Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination.

They are damn good projects - excellent projects. That goes for all the projects up there. You know some people make fun of people who speak a foreign language, and dumb people criticize something they do not understand, and that is what is going on up there - God damn it!

I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation.

I have no affectation when I speak.

It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities.

We've got to be fair. You can't say a place that has strip joints is sacred ground. We've got to be just. We've got to speak the truth. We've got to have justice for everybody. We're a country of justice for all, not justice for non-Muslims only or some groups and not for others.

I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all other European states are preparing to abolish it as speedily as they can.

The fascists in most Latin American countries tell the people that the reason their wages will not buy as much in the way of goods is because of Yankee imperialism. The fascists in Latin America learn to speak and act like natives.

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.

To speak about notation as the only way that you can guarantee structure of course is already very suspect.

All I ever wanted really, and continue to want out of life, is to give 100 percent to whatever I'm doing and to be committed to whatever I'm doing and then let the results speak for themselves. Also to never take myself or people for granted and always be thankful and grateful to the people who helped me.

Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.

A free people, free to believe as we wish, free to speak our minds, free to raise our children as we see fit, will, make no mistake about it, endure.

In speaking of Jesus, I must speak about Christianity because I do not think it possible or profitable to divide the two.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.