Levar Burton Famous Quotes

It's not about division. It's not about politics. My concern is how do we come together? ~ LeVar Burton

I get most of my news updates from electronic and social media. ~ LeVar Burton

I'm enormously proud of the fact that Star Trek has really not just sparked an interest, but encouraged, a few generations of people to go into the sciences. ~ LeVar Burton

Jim Carrey can do anything he wants, right? There are guys like that. I'm not one of those guys, so my career has been cobbled together with what the universe has put in front of me. ~ LeVar Burton

I grew up with the one of the most famous fathers in the world in the 1960s and '70s. He passed away in 1984, and as time went on, people didn't know him. That blew me away. ~ Kate Burton

This wired generation is kind of cool. ~ LeVar Burton

It is no longer appropriate for me as an American to sit by and expect my government to get it done. ~ LeVar Burton

We want a book to be a book. We'll have all the interactive bells and whistles but our intent is to engage young people in reading, not to show them a movie. ~ LeVar Burton

I think reading is part of the birthright of the human being ~ LeVar Burton

Libraries do one thing that no other institution does and that's provide access to all. ~ LeVar Burton

I fly my geek flag proudly. Absolutely. ~ LeVar Burton

If we marry educational technology with quality, enriching content, that's a circle of win. ~ LeVar Burton

I genuinely believe we have an opportunity to revolutionize how we educate our children. ~ LeVar Burton

In a society that functions optimally, those who can should naturally want to provide for those who can't. That's how it's designed to work. I truly believe we're here to take care of one another. ~ LeVar Burton

The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed. ~ LeVar Burton

You can break down anything for a child, and you have to know what your child is ready for and what your child is not. ~ LeVar Burton

I'm excited to see how current and future technologies revolutionize the way we learn. ~ LeVar Burton

It's definitely true that there are a lot of the devices we used on 'Star Trek,' that came out the imagination of the writers, and the creators that are actually in the world today. ~ LeVar Burton

After many years of training myself, strong emotions are now a trigger for me to look at something. I think that all emotions are triggers for us to grow in our level of consciousness. ~ LeVar Burton

All literature is political. ~ LeVar Burton

Human beings are the laziest creatures in the history of creation. We would rather not do anything if we could avoid it. ~ LeVar Burton

I'm a firm believer and always have been that there aren't all that many things that you should not express to children in an age-appropriate manner, and as a parent, that is your job - to be discerning as to whether or not your child can handle the information, provided you have the ability to express yourself in that age-appropriate way. ~ LeVar Burton

Most of my ambitions were seeded at St. John's. My time there was some of the best time I have spent on Earth thus far. ~ Burton Cummings

GOD - the importance of invisible over tangible ~ Jessie Burton

I also employed the world-famous Hemingway Defense. Although never clearly articulated (it would not be manly to do so), the Hemingway Defense goes something like this: as a writer, I am a very sensitive fellow, but I am also a man, and real men don't give in to their sensitivities. Only sissy-men do that. Therefore I drink. How else can I face the existential horror of it all and continue to work? ~ Stephen King

I had, by then, done my share of reading on Philadelphia, so I knew that, in another time, when the Task was here in Philadelphia, the city had fallen victim to a fever. And among the men who combatted this fever was Benjamin Rush, a famous doctor, which is hard to countenance given the theory he put forth in defense of the city. Colored people were immune to the fever, he told Philadelphia, and more than immune, their very presence could alter the air itself, sucking up the scourge and holding it captive in our fetid black bodies. And so tasking men were brought in by the hundreds on the alleged black magic of our bodies. They all died. And when the city began to fill with their corpses, its masters searched for a space far from the whites who were felled by the disease. And they chose a patch of land where no one lived, and tossed us into pits. Years later, after the fever had been forgotten, after the war had birthed this new country, they built rows and rows of well-appointed houses right on top of those people, and and named a square for their liberating general. It struck me that even here, in the free North, the luxuries of this world were built right on top of us. ~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

I don't want to be rich and I don't want to be famous. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

My house was built by a partnership called Desire and Ignorance; they often work together, and always with disastrous consequences. It's surprising they aren't more talked of in the press. They are great survivors but incompetent builders. Desire is famous only for pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain, while Ignorance casts a veil over all his unexamined assumptions and makes wrong ones every hour. Together, they created the psychological reality where I live. Hardly a surprise, therefore, if it's unfit for purpose! ~ Simon Parke

I had a drug problem. I'd go to parties, take a leak, and there was cocaine right there. I was 25 when it started, rich, famous, and retired. ~ Sugar Ray Leonard

Of course there have been times I regretted being the kid in 'E.T.' My world went completely crazy. I was that stupid kind of famous, where you can't go anywhere. ~ Henry Thomas

One needs to be either more brave or more good, because if courage is lacking goodness can substitute, while cowardice is the deficiency of both. ~ Neel Burton

I view investing as a method of purchasing assets to gain profit in the form of reasonably predictable income (dividends, interest, or rentals) and /or appreciation over the long term. ~ Burton G. Malkiel

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? ~ Robert H. Schuller

I think anyone who is famous is a moron if they're on Twitter. It's just stupid. ~ George Clooney

Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life. ~ Michael Morpurgo

He developed his revolutionary philosophy, with its grounding not in the Bible or ancient writers but in human reason, and became famous and infamous for it. ~ Russell Shorto

GIRL'S STORY #7: THE HARD-TO-PLEASE MOMMA

Momma, I got a B, the daughter said.
Who got an A? Momma answered.
Momma, I showed in the track meet.
Who placed? Momma answered.
Momma, I placed in the track meet.
Who won? Momma answered.
The daughter was chosen Homecoming Queen, the daughter ran all the way home, Momma, Momma, the most wonderful thing happened, I was chosen attendant to the Homecoming Queen.
Who's Queen? Momma answered.
I am, said the daughter. ~ Gabrielle Burton