King Quotes

Stephen King consummately honors several traditions with his rare paperback original, 'Joyland.' He addresses the novel of carny life and sideshows, where the midway serves as microcosm, such as in those famous books by Ray Bradbury, Charles Finney and William Lindsay Gresham.

~ Paul Di Filippo

My earliest memory is nursing and struggling to see the colored lights making up the map of the world, the famous backdrop for Larry King's TV show. There's an 'I-want-to-do-all-things-at-once' kind of theme to it.

~ Ronan Farrow

In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king's death or upon the identity of his successor.

~ Gore Vidal

Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried the American flag.

~ Adrian Cronauer

In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.

~ Raoul Vaneigem

Just as Jews in the U.S. joined Martin Luther King, I'm sure hundreds of thousands of Jews will join the struggle for civil equality in Israel.

~ Ayman Odeh

The MLK Shabbat Suppers focused on the theme of educational inequity, which Dr. King considered inextricably linked to the struggle for equality and justice.

~ Lynn Schusterman

Of course Stephen King doesn't believe in teen novels. I've started to suspect he doesn't even believe in teenagers.

~ Robin Wasserman

I've always been drawn to the Edwardian period in England. To me, it seems like such a fascinating time, when the British Empire was at the height of its powers and the strict mores of the Victorian age were dissipating into the decadence of King Edward's reign.

~ Kevin Kwan

The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness.

~ Heinrich Mann

Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn't have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact.

~ Anthony Holden

King Charles II liked women's company and well as making love to them.

~ Antonia Fraser

A true king is neither husband nor father he considers his throne and nothing else.

~ Pierre Corneille

The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years.

~ Malcolm X

I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.

~ Thomas More

Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King's daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.

~ Joan Of Arc

In politics, Joseph Smith was something of a radical. He preached, instead of democracy, a version of theocratic rule within a framework given by his own prophetic leadership. At Nauvoo, Smith affected a Napoleonic uniform and made himself into a general and quasi king of the polity he had constituted.

~ Noah Feldman

We are increasingly offered a diet in which sensation, not story, is king.

~ Beeban Kidron

I was born into the world as the king of truth for the salvation of the world.

~ Buddha

I am the herald of the Great King.

~ Francis Of Assisi

I know every fight could be my last fight, and if that happens, that's not just a health issue, but I'll be knocked off that king's stool.

~ Anthony Joshua

If Congress can move President's Day, Columbus Day and, alas, Martin Luther King's Birthday celebration for the convenience of shoppers, shouldn't they at least consider moving Election Day for the convenience of voters?

~ Andrew Young

Does Martin Luther King really want his birthday commercialized?

~ Jidenna

When Gingrich attacked CNN's John King for bringing up his alleged proposal of an open marriage to his second wife, Gingrich accused him of lowering the level of discourse in a presidential debate, suggesting that such a discussion is unworthy of consideration by voters.

~ Robert Dallek

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

~ Joseph Brodsky

No film has captivated my imagination more than 'King Kong.' I'm making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old.

~ Peter Jackson

Art thou the King of the Jews?

~ Pontius Pilate

A teardrop on earth summons the King of heaven.

~ Charles R. Swindoll

The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. made me very, very sad, and I mourned and I cried like many of our citizens did.

~ John Lewis

When I was about 6, my cousin was very active in a Filipino repertory company, doing musicals and plays. Her aunt was one of the founders of the company, and she told my mom that there were these auditions for 'The King and I,' and that they needed kids. I auditioned, got in and the love affair started from there and just kept going.

~ Lea Salonga

I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.

~ Andrew Jackson

When I first drove my car down Sunset Strip, I nearly crashed my car gazing at the monolithic ads of various celebrities. They are bigger than King Kong, and more frightening.

~ Rebecca Pidgeon

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.

~ Morgan Freeman

Yes, I think it's really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assassination, was re-conceptualizing the civil rights movement and moving toward a sort of coalitional relationship with the trade union movement.

~ Angela Davis

Maya Angelou was the voice of three generations. Her poetry spanned our journey, chronicled our hearts and documented our struggles as we moved from the orations of Martin Luther King to the presidency of Barack Obama.

~ Donna Brazile

Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.

~ Karen Decrow

King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.

~ Constance Baker Motley

God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.

~ Orson Pratt

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

~ Denis Diderot