J. J. Johnson Quotes

Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations: building cities for people to live in.

Future complications in the strings between the cans. But no prints can come from fingers, if machines become our hands.

When you are faced with an important decision, be sure that your choice will lead you nearer to Christ.

In the long term, it is desirable that the human race, faced with the prospect of extinction on Earth, should prepare an escape route for itself to another inhabitable planet.

I've been having an affair, but I still believe in family values.

It seems to me that maybe pretty much always means no. So dont tell me, I might just let it go.

I made a lot of mistakes out of the ring, but I never made any in it.

You better hope you’re not alone.

To many, Heathrow in August is a paradigm of Hell.

Slow down, everyone. You're moving too fast.

All caught up in the trends, well the truth began to bend.

For me this is the vital litmus test: no intellectual society can flourish where a Jew feels even slightly uneasy.

Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.

You look at all the great players that they've had and the potential of playing in Yankee Stadium.

I had a great time with baseball growing up. I was lucky to grow up with it and to learn.

I think that if everybody changed and tried to make their music political, it'd be kind of a bummer.

We don't propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up any government in the Western Hemisphere.

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

Conservation is ethically sound. It is rooted in our love of the land, our respect for the rights of others, our devotion to the rule of law.

For the first time in our history it is possible to conquer poverty.

There can no longer be anyone too poor to vote.

Every man of any education would rather be called a rascal, than accused of deficiency in the graces.

The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and enlarge his talents.

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

Of those to whom much is given, much is asked.

The question we do not see when we are young is whether we own pride or are owned by it.

New gods arise when they are needed.

What is sanity, after all, except the control of madness?

The woods seemed all answer and healing and more than enough to live for.

Everything drops away, comes to be unimportant in the dark. It's like sleep almost. A freedom from self, from ugliness.

You can't be a little bit saintly any more than you can be a little bit pregnant.

He who cares only for himself in youth will be a very niggard in manhood, and a wretched miser in old age.

...where legitimate opportunities are closed, illegitimate opportunities are seized. Whatever opens opportunity and hope will help to prevent crime and foster responsibility.

John Henry Lloyd is the man I gave the credit to for polishing my skills. He taught me how to play third base and how to protect myself. John taught me more baseball than anyone else.

Extremism is the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue.

Be careful. Everything you say, every single day, may be recorded in your students’ hearts forever.

Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

Any man who's not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.

It's too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it, they'll probably just piss it all away.

How lucky we are to have such a treasure of memories.

Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store.

We must change to master change.

John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.

Boys, it is just like the Alamo. Somebody should have by God helped those Texans. I'm going to Vietnam.

Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

I just prefer wood. I like the smell. To me, it's a lot cheaper than electric or gas, and it's more convenient. It's just a better heat to me.

You've got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you've got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

My role model was my grandfather. He instilled in me the feeling that no matter how successful you are you have a responsibility to help others.