Skin Quotes

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Character, Live, Children

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Character, Color, Content

Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person.
Amanda Peet

Beauty, Beautiful, Fun

The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.
Mark Twain

Society, Person, Made

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.
Mark Twain

Between, Difference, Takes

The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.
Marcus Garvey

Black, Rather, Greatness

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Samuel Ullman

May, Give, Living

Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.
John F. Kennedy

Long, Before, Place

It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man.
John Lennon

Long, Woman, Matter

Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
Che Guevara

Different, Call, Prove

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.
Frederick Buechner

Peace, Knowledge, Live

My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I'm still a virgin in a lot of ways. I'm not used to being shot down for no reason.
Will Smith

Music, Movies, Hard

On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.
Erma Bombeck

Sun, Off, Ourselves

If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.
Robert Kennedy

Change, Live, Him

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?
Michelangelo

Beautiful, Cannot, Fact

I have a skin disorder that destroys the pigmentation of my skin, it's something that I cannot help, OK?
Michael Jackson

Help, Cannot, Ok

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Family, Enough, Won

Anybody could say anything they want about me, and it literally never penetrates my skin.
Ron White

Anybody, Penetrates, Literally

The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Mind, Care, After

I love you more than my own skin.
Frida Kahlo

It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core.
Phyllis Diller

Beauty, Good, Deep

Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
Ambrose Bierce

Hope, Person, Give

Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Douglas MacArthur

Give, Soul, Enthusiasm

I think women should start to embrace their age. What's the alternative to getting older? You die. I can't change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy.
Olivia Munn

Life, Change, Age

I'm a big believer in that if you focus on good skin care, you really won't need a lot of makeup.
Demi Moore

Good, Care, Focus

Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.
Redd Foxx

Beauty, Deep, May

Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit.
Jennifer Lopez

Beauty, Mind, Important

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Time, May, Thought

It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.
Bruce Springsteen

Sad, Friend, Stand

Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick-ass red lipstick.
Gwyneth Paltrow

Beauty, Lipstick, Red

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