James Weldon Johnson - Thought Quotes

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I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.

James Weldon Johnson

Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town.

James Weldon Johnson

My love for my children makes me glad that I am what I am, and keeps me from desiring to be otherwise; and yet, when I sometimes open a little box in which I still keep my fast yellowing manuscripts, the only tangible remnants of a vanished dream, a dead ambition, a sacrificed talent, I cannot repress the thought, that after all I have chosen the lesser part, that I have sold my birthright for a mess of pottage

James Weldon Johnson

With his head in his hands,
God thought and thought,
Till he thought: I'll make me a man!

James Weldon Johnson

Without a thought of fear — Man never had The faith in God That he has in an engineer!

James Weldon Johnson