All Quotes

“You may do that. (on being threatened with arrest for failing to move from her seat) “You’re Under Arrest”: Rosa Parks’ Disobedience Against Racism , 2022”

“People always said that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty”

“Parks Recalls Bus Boycott, Excerpts from an interview with Lynn Neary”

“Thank you very much. I honor my late husband Raymond Parks, other Freedom Fighters, men of goodwill who could not be here. I'm also honored by young men who respect me and have invited me as an elder. Raymond, or Parks as I called him, was an activist in the Scottsboro Boys case, voter registration, and a role model for youth. As a self”

“Rosa Parks: Her simple act of protest galvanized America's civil rights revolution,”

“I'd see the bus pass every day... But to me, that was a way of life; we had no choice but to accept what was the custom. The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world. Quoted in The Story Behind the Bus .  Rosa Parks Bus . The Henry Ford. Retrieved on 2008”

“Standing Up for Freedom,”

“God has always given me the strength to say what is right... I had the strength of God and my ancestors with me. Quoted in The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks , by Jeanne Theoharis”

“From my upbringing and the Bible I learned people should stand up for rights just as the children of Israel stood up to the Pharaoh. Quoted in The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks , by Jeanne Theoharis”

“Women of the Hall: Rosa Parks,”

“Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated. in answer to her father, who accused her of making science her religion, as related by Brenda Maddox (2003).  Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA‎ . Perennial. p. 61. ISBN 0060985089 .”

“What’s the use of doing all this work if we don't get some fun out of this? As quoted by Aaron Klug , interview , 17 June 2005 [1]”

“The results suggest a helical structure (which must be very closely packed) containing 2, 3 or 4 co‐axial nucleic acid chains per helical unit, and having the phosphate groups near the outside. Notes from November 1951 about Franklin's electron microscopy imaging of DNA, which led to Watson & Crick's publication of the structure of DNA by sixteen months. As quoted in How Rosalind Franklin Discovered the Helical Structure of DNA: Experiments in Diffraction (in The Physics Teacher 49, 140 (2011); doi: 10.1119/1.3555496), quoting Rosalind Franklin and DNA (2000), page 15.”

“Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.”

“The important thing is not to stop questioning.”

“In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall come nearer to success.”

“The structure of DNA is the most important discovery in biology since Darwin's theory of evolution.”

“We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.”

“The important thing is not to stop questioning, and never lose a holy curiosity.”

“I seek a form that my style cannot discover, a bud of thought that wants to be a rose. Prosas Profanas y Otros Poemas (Profane Hymns and Other Poems) . I Seek a Form (1896).”

“Dichoso el árbol, que es apenas sensitivo, y más la piedra dura porque esa ya no siente, pues no hay dolor más grande que el dolor de ser vivo, ni mayor pesadumbre que la vida consciente. Blessed is the almost insensitive tree, more blessed is the hard stone that doesn't feel, for no pain is greater than the pain of being alive, and no sorrow more intense than conscious life.”

“Cantos de vida y esperanza (1901), "Lo fatal"”

“Quoted in Chambers Dictionary of Quotations (1997), p. 305.”

“I am not on a bed of roses”

“The tree is happy because it is scarcely sentient; the hard rock is happier still, it feels nothing: there is no pain as great as being alive, no burden heavier than that of conscious life. Fatalidad (Fatality) .”

“Pity for him who one day looks upon his inward sphinx and questions it. He is lost. Pity for Him Who One Day .”

“From before I knew how to read, my parents had me memorize poems by Ruben Dario, the great Nicaraguan poet who founded the modernist movement that transformed the Spanish language and whose work I recited with pleasure to whoever was naïve enough to ask me to do so. The rhythm of Dario’s poems fascinated me. Often”

“In Spanish, we have a tradition of open”

“Telephone, pedal washbasin, white refrigerators gleaming with Ripolin [French paint], bidet, small phonograph.. ..objects of authentic and pure poetry (MPC p. 11).. ..The Parthenon was not built as a ruin. It was built on a new surface without patina, like our automobiles. / we will not always bear on our shoulders the weight of our father's corpse. Quote, 1920's; MPC p. 13; as quoted in Dali and Me , Catherine Millet ,”

“Just now I'm painting a beautiful woman, smiling, burnt to a crisp, with feathers of all colors, held up by a small die of burning marble; the die is in turn held up by a little puff of smoke, churned and quite; in the sky there are asses with parrot”