Sixteenth Street Baptist

Famous quotes containing the words sixteenth, street and/or baptist:

    “April is in my mistress’ face,
    And July in her eyes hath place,
    Within her bosom is September,
    But in her heart a cold December.”
    —Unknown. Subject #4: July Subject #5: September Subject #6: December. All Seasons in One. . .

    Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse, The. E. K. Chambers, comp. (1932)

    “When I pass people on the street I want to stop them and say, listen, I got a fella.”
    —Sydney Carroll, U.S. screenwriter, and Robert Rossen. Sarah (Piper Laurie)

    “I am perhaps being a bit facetious but if some of my good Baptist brethren in Georgia had done a little preaching from the pulpit against the K.K.K. in the ‘20s, I would have a little more genuine American respect for their Christianity!”
    —Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)