Top 9 Quotes by Allen Johnson

People often remain in the dark, not due to lack of light but of failure to open their eyes.

People often remain in the dark, not due to lack of light but of failure to open their eyes.

Eye, Dark, Light

We want to live a simple life, ... I want to emphasize I'm not an environmentalist who goes to church. I want my principal identity as a Christian to be someone who follows Jesus. I want to work for peace and justice, care for God's environment, be a good neighbor and friend and live the right life.

Allen Johnson

Friendship, Christian, Jesus

Very rarely do you have a perfect race, and it's about overcoming your mistakes in the race and remaining composed.

Allen Johnson

Mistake, Race, Perfect

You just get injured more often. You take time off, you come back, you get injured again and you never get in shape.

Allen Johnson

Shapes, Getting In Shape, Take Time

It's about stepping up on the big stage. The athlete who can do that is goig to do well.

Allen Johnson

Athlete, Track, Bigs

At noon, on the Fourth of July, 1826, while the Liberty Bell was again sounding its old message to the people of Philadelphia, the soul of Thomas Jefferson passed on; and a few hours later John Adams entered into rest, with the name of his old friend upon his lips.

Allen Johnson

July, Names, Philadelphia

Allen Johnson, Edward Samuel Corwin (1926). “The age of Jefferson and Marshall: Part 1: Jefferson and his colleagues, by Allen Johnson. Part 2: John Marshall and the Constitution, by Edward S. Crowin”

A mind devoid of prepossessions is likely to be devoid of all mental furniture. And the historian who thinks that he can clean his mind as he would a slate with a wet sponge, is ignorant of the simplest facts of mental life.

Allen Johnson

Thinking, History, Ignorant