King Quotes

Look at what the Omar of Qatar is doing, for example - the King of Morocco, Jordan, Bahrain. There are reform movements taking place, efforts to broaden the political participation of the populations of the region.

The people under our system, like the king in a monarchy, never dies.

We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.

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

I'd rather be called King than other things I've been called.

All we have to do is to peel the shrines like an onion, and we will be with the king himself.

People look at me like I should have been like Malcolm X or Martin Luther King or Rosa Parks. I should have seen life like that and stay out of trouble, and don't do this and don't do that. But it's hard to live up to some people's expectations.

When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

My father was king of the guidebooks and our holidays were always planned, taking us from a great gallery to an ace cafe to a beautiful view. And as an actor, I loathe improvisation because there's no structure and no one knows what's going on.

Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.

The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

The King and Queen made the rounds after the film. We were told how we were to respond, and we were in a semi circle in the lounge area of the cinema, they came around after the King, the Queen and both Princesses.

I guess if one set of my books was selling like Stephen King's, and the other wasn't selling at all, editors would want me to do the ones that sold like Stephen King's. But they seem to be willing to let me pick what I want to do next.

It's important to me that on 'Family Feud' I could kiss all the people. It sounds crazy but when I first came here Petula Clark was on a show with Nat King Cole and he kissed her on the cheek and eighty-one stations in the South canceled him. I kissed black women daily and nightly on 'Family Feud' and the world didn't come to an end, did it?

He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar.

We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.'

Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books.

I considered Nat King Cole to be a friend and, in many ways, a mentor. He always had words of profound advice.

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Jim Crow was king... and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive.

I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for.

A person like Carole King could make up something, change it, and actually improve it.

The Mohawks have on all occasions shown their zeal and loyalty to the Great King; yet they have been very badly treated by his people.

There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed.

David wasn't thinking of being king when he was tending sheep; he was just doing what God sat before him.

With the players Madden is definitely king and that's probably why it's been one of the top selling games all these years and will probably continue to be.

Well, first of all, I was asked by Ross Perot on a telephone call in March of 1992 if, since he had committed on the Larry King Show to becoming a candidate for president, to get on all 50 ballots.

The Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict. The Los Angeles riots were caused by rioters.