A Quote by Rosa Parks

If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.

Rosa Parks

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Children Down Freedom Sit Stand Stand Up Up

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Rosa Parks
American - Activist
February 4, 1913 - October 24, 2005

Mr Churchill, to what do you attribute your success in life? Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit down when you can lie down.

Winston Churchill

Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down, and never sit down when you can lie down.

Paul Johnson

When we stand up and we sing O Canada, we pledge to stand on guard for thee. If that doesn't include our water, we might as well sit down and give up.

Rick Mercer

Don’t stand up when you can sit down and don’t sit down when you can lie down.

Kenneth Branagh

I remember someone said to me, "Never stand up when you can sit down, never sit down when you can lie down, never lie down when you can be asleep." Those are bits of advice that I haven't taken, really. I've done the opposite of them, but they have stayed with me.

Michael Sheen

I'm onstage for an hour.I do an hour of stand-up. Actually, I do 10 minutes standing up and 50 minutes sitting in a chair. Oh, occasionally, I stand up again to do a dance or put over a song. But mostly I sit down. A great invention, sitting down.

George Burns

Improv requires your audience to be informed about what improv is. With stand-up, anybody can sit down and watch stand-up and laugh at jokes.

Kurt Braunohler

It is in the American tradition to stand up for one's rights--even if the new way to stand up for one's rights is to sit down.

John F. Kennedy

It's almost as easy to stand up as it is to sit down.

Charles Lindbergh

Stand up, speak out, and be bold. Screw political correctness. Never let them tell you to sit down and shut up.

Sarah Palin

I became a stand-up comedienne because I had a sit-down husband.

Phyllis Diller

Stand-up isn't something I just sit down and start writing - it's ideas you come up with in the shower, while you're driving, waiting in line.

Chris Hardwick

Be one of the crowd? It went against everything a wizard stood for, and a wizard would not stand for anything if he could sit down for it, but even sitting down, you had to stand out.

Terry Pratchett

Kids don't say, "Wait." They say, "Wait up, hey wait up!" Because when you're little, your life is up. The future is up. Everything you want is up. "Hold up. Shut up! Mum, I'll clean up. Let me stay up!" Parents, of course, are just the opposite. Everything is down. "Just calm down. Slow down. Come down here! Sit down. Put... that... down."