Quotes by Sarah Churchwell - Page 1

There is nothing that 'Sesame Street' can't teach you, if you let it.
Sarah Churchwell /
Sesame Street
Streets
Teach
Sesame
Copy Quote
Facts might be false if they challenge the conviction of a mind already made up.
Sarah Churchwell /
Challenges
Might
Mind
Copy Quote
History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things.
Sarah Churchwell /
Facts
Identity
Mistake
Prone
Solid
Copy Quote
Expression and thought are inextricably linked: crude language permits only crude thinking.
Sarah Churchwell /
Crude
Linked
Inextricably
Permits
Copy Quote
Art cannot, perhaps, impose order on life—but it teaches us to admire even the unruliest of revelations.
Sarah Churchwell /
Art
Order
Revelations
Copy Quote
People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion.
Sarah Churchwell /
Entitlement
People
Proportion
Want
Rapidly
Copy Quote
If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary.
Sarah Churchwell /
Guests
Memories
Party
Blurred
Drunken
Fragmentary
Guest
List
Memory
Tendency
Copy Quote
Textbooks are no longer given to schoolchildren; they're too expensive. So they're given to the teachers, who probably need them more.
Sarah Churchwell /
Expensive
Textbooks
Teachers
Schoolchildren
Copy Quote
Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not disappear, neither did the economic system it upheld.
Sarah Churchwell /
Abolish
Disappear
Racism
Slavery
Way
Economic System
Effect
Neither
Upheld
Copy Quote
History resembles a guest list in that sense of the invited and the gatecrashers: the people for whom we have been waiting, and those whose presence takes us unawares.
Sarah Churchwell /
Invited
Waiting
Guest
List
Presence
Resembles
Copy Quote
Music - not just the lyrics, but the music itself - expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration, channeling these energies and creating an outlet for them.
Sarah Churchwell /
Channeling
Confused
Envy
Frustration
Lust
Passion
Energies
Expresses
Outlet
Passions
Copy Quote
'Sesame Street' was a pioneering educational T.V. show, intended to help underprivileged children. But even those of us middle-class kids spoilt for pedagogical choice couldn't get enough of it.
Sarah Churchwell /
Educational
Pioneering
Sesame Street
Spoilt
Underprivileged
Intended
Sesame
Copy Quote
Top-up fees mean that universities are increasingly under pressure to confer degrees upon students, who perceive the degree as a commodity they've purchased. Failure doesn't enter into anyone's calculations.
Sarah Churchwell /
Calculations
Commodity
Fees
Perceive
Degree
Increasingly
Purchased
Universities
Copy Quote
In all likelihood, the only thing extraordinary about Tiger Woods was his golf: he had extraordinary coordination and extraordinary discipline - on the course, at any rate. That discipline was the source of his power.
Sarah Churchwell /
Coordination
Discipline
Extraordinary
Golf
Likelihood
Rate
Woods
The Only Thing
Tiger
Tiger Woods
Copy Quote
In one sense, Obama's point couldn't be clearer: race is a distraction from class-based inequities. And if we dismiss working-class resentment as camouflaged racism, we will continue to be distracted by the spectre of race.
Sarah Churchwell /
Racism
Resentment
Spectre
Working Class
Clearer
Dismiss
Copy Quote
Pop music provides not just the soundtrack to our lives, as the cliche goes; it releases our emotions and helps us to articulate them. This is why music is so important to adolescents, who are struggling with questions of identity and self-expression.
Sarah Churchwell /
Expression
Identity
Our Lives
Pop Music
Release
Self
Self Expression
Struggle
Adolescent
Questions
Articulate
Helps
Provides
Soundtrack
Struggling
Copy Quote
The legacy of slavery comes from the sustained political, legal and economic effort to link permanently an entire group of people to poverty - and to mystify that systematic disenfranchisement by making up something called race, which could serve as a distraction.
Sarah Churchwell /
Legal
Distraction
Legacy
Making Up
Poverty
Slavery
Systematic
Link
Permanently
Sustained
Copy Quote
Fitzgerald could sense that America was poised on the edge of a vast transformation, and wrote a novel bridging his moment and ours. The Great Gatsby made manifest precisely what Fitzgerald’s contemporaries couldn’t bear to see, and thus it is not only the Jazz Age novel par excellence, but also the harbinger of its decline and fall.
Sarah Churchwell /
America
Excellence
Fall
Copy Quote

Related Authors

Yogi Berra
Baseball Manager
Tuesday, May 12, 1925
Tuesday, Sep 22, 2015
Robin Williams
Actor
Saturday, Jul 21, 1951
Monday, Aug 11, 2014
Billy Graham
Evangelist
Thursday, Nov 07, 1918
Rodney Dangerfield
Comedian
Tuesday, Nov 22, 1921
Tuesday, Oct 05, 2004
Aldous Huxley
Writer
Thursday, Jul 26, 1894
Friday, Nov 22, 1963
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Poet
Wednesday, Oct 21, 1772
Friday, Jul 25, 1834
Helen Keller
Author
Sunday, Jun 27, 1880
Saturday, Jun 01, 1968
Ronald Reagan
40Th US President
Monday, Feb 06, 1911
Saturday, Jun 05, 2004
Thomas Aquinas
Priest
Tuesday, Jan 28, 1225
Wednesday, Mar 07, 1274
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Writer
Thursday, Aug 28, 1749
Thursday, Mar 22, 1832
Edgar Allan Poe
Author
Thursday, Jan 19, 1809
Sunday, Oct 07, 1849
Billy Graham
Professional Wrestler
Monday, Jun 07, 1943
Marcus Aurelius
Roman Emperor
Saturday, Apr 26, 0121
Friday, Mar 17, 0180
Sun Tzu
Strategist
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
W. Edwards Deming
Statistician
Sunday, Oct 14, 1900
Monday, Dec 20, 1993

View All Quotes

Top Authors

Edgar Allan Poe
Author
Thursday, Jan 19, 1809
Sunday, Oct 07, 1849
Elon Musk
Investor
Monday, Jun 28, 1971
Thomas Jefferson
3Rd US President
Saturday, Apr 13, 1743
Tuesday, Jul 04, 1826
John Keats
Poet
Saturday, Oct 31, 1795
Friday, Feb 23, 1821
Epictetus
Philosopher
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philologist
Tuesday, Oct 15, 1844
Saturday, Aug 25, 1900
Socrates
Philosopher
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Maya Angelou
Author
Wednesday, Apr 04, 1928
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Chanakya
Teacher
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Nelson Mandela
Former President Of South Africa
Thursday, Jul 18, 1918
Thursday, Dec 05, 2013
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Poet
Wednesday, Oct 21, 1772
Friday, Jul 25, 1834
Jordan Peterson
Psychologist
Ernest Hemingway
Author
Friday, Jul 21, 1899
Sunday, Jul 02, 1961
Aristotle
Philosopher
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Peter Drucker
Author
Friday, Nov 19, 1909
Friday, Nov 11, 2005

View All Authors

Sarah Churchwell Quotes - Page 1

Picture Quotes Maker

Related Authors

Popular Topic Tags

Top Authors

Share This Page

Stay Connected

Picture Quotes Maker

Related Authors

Popular Topic Tags

Top Authors

Share This Page