Top 565 Member Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Member Quotes from famous people such as Burgess Owens, Norman Mailer, Benjamin Franklin Fairless, Groucho Marx, Shane Carruth, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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Dubois was the first black American to graduate from Harvard. He was accepted within the northern white intellectual circles as one of the ‘best of his race.’ As an avowed socialist, he was the only black member of the original 19 wealthy socialist founders of the NAACP.
Burgess Owens
What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.
Norman Mailer
What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.
Benjamin Franklin Fairless
I won’t belong to any organization that would have me as a member.
Groucho Marx
All I know is that as an audience member, I am less and less inclined to go to the theater. But that has to do with content and also because the venues seem to be actively trying to repel people.
Shane Carruth
The name Zahra was to have been lman’s own name at birth, but a senior member of the family changed it to lman at the last minute.
David Bowie
Any actor working a long time should know how a shot is set up, where to place themselves, how to handle the lines. I’m a member of the crew, like the best boy, the electrician. What I’m good at is making eyes at the camera.
Jodie Foster
I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.
L. Neil Smith
Turkey’s a NATO member. If Turkey gets attacked, we have to help defend Turkey.
Wesley Clark
I think there is a direct correlation between interest shown by a member of Congress on these projects and the progress that is made. I think it gives the Superfund effort some credibility, lets citizens know we are serious about these cleanups.
Rodney Frelinghuysen
I’m a member of the US committee o the United Nations.
Betty Hill
I love the levels, the depth, that the character has. He is the only member of the Justice League who cannot take off his costume. He is Cyborg 24/7.
Ray Fisher
It was a presidential election year, and as a member of a consortium of Ivy League radio stations, we participated in ‘network’ coverage of election night.
Andrea Mitchell
I’ve been a National Front member since I was 17, and active supporter for a long time.
Marion Marechal-Le Pen
I grew up in New York City. In elementary school, I was a charter member of the Scribble Scrabble Club, and in high school, my poems were published in an anthology of student poetry.
Gail Carson Levine
The E.U.’s 500 million citizens enjoy the right to live and work in any of the Union’s 27 member states.
Najib Razak
The revelations of the Father and the Son are conveyed through the third member of the Godhead, even the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost is the witness of and messenger for the Father and the Son.
David A. Bednar
I’m a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I’m a member of both countries.
Michael Ondaatje
I was blessed by my parents and my antecedents by a very strong work ethic. I mean, being a Member of Parliament is 24/7, just as much as when you’re actually doing a play. It’s not quite 24/7, but it’s the work that counts.
Glenda Jackson
In ancient African cultures, a young man was not considered a full member of the tribe, an elder, a man. He couldn’t marry and he couldn’t own land until he had killed a lion. It was symbolic.
John Eldredge
As a member of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, I am a firm believer in the American space program.
Randy Forbes
You can be a responsible member of the community besides enriching from it.
Greg Gianforte
I have a family member who was in the foster system briefly, and so I’ve kind of grown up knowing about it myself.
Maia Mitchell
Roger Ballen is pretty much a member of Die Antwoord, it would be safe to say.
Watkin Tudor Jones
I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.
Groucho Marx
In the 1980s, there was no category to stick me in. ‘He sounds too smart’ is what I was hearing. I realized that I had to become a member of the school of what I call ‘ugly acting.’ Which meant I wanted to do what Dustin Hoffman did very successfully: to play character roles, but lead character roles.
Joe Morton
My maternal grandmother – she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
Umberto Eco
After he retired, Dad worked at my uncle’s boat company, a camp for kids, and eventually became County Commissioner for a term. He is known around town, works at the Food Pantry my mother helped start, and is a very serious member of Kiwanis.
Rick Tumlinson
I feel that sometimes, holding yourself as black, saying that is your sole identity, can sometimes stand in your way of being a member of the humanity of man, being a member of the family of the divine.
Giancarlo Esposito
I would go bold: you don’t have to be a member of Congress to be the speaker of the House. I would support someone like Dr. Carson or somebody like that; I think that would be good.
Ron DeSantis
I like to describe myself as a proudly visible member of the most invisible segments of our society – older women.
Cindy Gallop
The House of Lords says I'm not a member of it. My pass

The House of Lords says I’m not a member of it. My passport says I am – get used to it.
Christopher Monckton
One of my goals here in Congress, being the youngest member of the California delegation, is to really try and get the institution to upgrade the way it communicates with its constituents.
Eric Swalwell
I talk about millennials with a healthy dose of humility, as I’m a card-carrying member of Generation X. But I have daily interaction with young people at Dana Perino & Co., through my Minute Mentoring organization, with digital friends on social media, and especially at Fox News.
Dana Perino
As a member of the House Committee on Small Business and because of my own experience as a small business owner, I am appreciative of the impact these small businesses have on our local economies.
Melissa Bean
I was born and raised in Rogers Park in Chicago. My father sold furniture, and my mother was a Chicago public school teacher and proud member of the Chicago Teachers Union for decades.
Jan Schakowsky
What will become compellingly important is absolute clarity of shared purpose and set of principles of conduct sort of institutional genetic code that every member of the organization understands in a common way, and with deep conviction.
Dee Hock
Membership of the United Nations gives every member the right to make a fool of himself, and that is a right of which the Soviet Union in this case has taken full advantage.
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
As a boy, I was a member of a club run by the famous reptile showman Ross Allen, and the club sent its members pseudoscientific papers mimeographed on construction paper with a three-hole punch.
Padgett Powell
My Longhorns are registered and I am a member of the Texas Longhorn Breeders Association.
Janine Turner
Chad Smith is a member of Chickenfoot, and that’s that.
Michael Anthony
I don’t see myself only as a member of the New Orleans community. I see myself as a part of the human community. I see myself as a part of the community that’s trying to put things in the world that add value to people’s lives.
Irvin Mayfield
In the evening, since I have a lot of friends in theater, we might take in a Deaf West production in North Hollywood, or, since I’m a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, they have screenings that are really great.
Tim DeKay
I am, I think the only surviving member of the original Battle Creek church. The church was disbanded, with the exception of thirteen members, in 1870.
John Harvey Kellogg
Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.
Theodore Roosevelt
As a member of Guess Who, I think ‘No Time’ was the best thing we ever did. It was a pivotal song in our career.
Burton Cummings
I feel fortunate to be a part of a football community that includes leaders who recognize the power of sport to make a difference and who, like so many of my coaches, are defined not only by their knowledge but by their ability to bring out the best in every member of their teams.
Ali Krieger
Well, it was alleged that he was a member of the Communist Party.
Ethel Rosenberg
I was a union member in my youth as well and I went on strike, and I don’t think it solved anything. It only made the situation worse for everyone involved.
Michael Gove
I worked as a lawyer; as a member of the teaching staff of a technical college; and then I worked principally as legal adviser to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party.
Hans Frank
A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.
Igor Stravinsky
The Holy Ghost is a personage of Spirit: a separate and distinct member of the Godhead.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
My brother is the youngest member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I wouldn’t let him cut my nails.
Alan King
This project would not only open up venues of cooperation in the oil and gas sector between the member countries but also help bring the people of regional countries together.
Amanullah Khan
My father was a member of the Teamsters Union in California, where he helped to organize better health care for workers. My mother worked for more than 20 years on an assembly line.
Hilda Solis