Harriet Tubman Quotes

I've done a lot of that kind of work before, anyway, and I was in good hands.

Security is an attempt to try to make the universe static so that we feel safe.

I know exactly what I'm doing on the ice, and I'm in my element.

I like predictability because I know what I'm getting into.

I'm a safety - I play free, strong, whatever you ask me to play.

We are living in a world where everything is based on security.

As a high wire walker, I do not allow myself to 'leave the wire' during a performance.

You are as safe with me as you would be in the Bank of England.

I like definitive things.

I'm going to have to be impressed and feel confident in the people I'm handing a book to - or I'm not going to do it. Once you hand it to them, you're out. You have no control over it.

I never played with a runner in my entire life, even in schools, because only I know where the ball is going and how hard, when I hit the ball, something my runner will never know about.

I don't get in a position to be frightened. I don't do anything dangerous, and I always pay my bills.

I think I coulda landed on a dime. I really do.

Security has come from being successful.

Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good.

I know exactly what I'm doing when I'm doing a trick. I really hate it when I fail.

We all want certainty.

What has the North to do with slavery? What have we to do with it, indeed! when it encircles us like the air we breathe -- as invisible but as ever near us -- when it makes our laws, controls our interests, appoints our rulers, sets a price upon our heads, demands the sacrifice of our free utterance, disfranchises in one half the States the citizens when the Constitution has made free every where--when it makes Religion its pander, and the Church its sanctuary!

The Great Guarantee; and the only sufficient Guarantee

Steady.

You cannot be too certain of anything unless you have it in hand.

I am the law. I am over the slave owners that used to be over me. I am their mayor.

You have placed fame in my hands and I assure you my hands will not tremble.

After the Civil war, everybody in retrospect claimed to be an abolitionist. It’s amazing that slavery survived so long when there were so many abolitionists.

I had crossed the line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom, I was a stranger in a strange land, and my home after all was down in the old cabin quarter, with the old folks, and my brothers and sisters. But to this solemn resolution I came; I was free, and they should be free also; I would make a home for them in the North, and the Lord helping me, I would bring them all there.