Derek Walcott Quotes

My relationship to Britain is of no consequence.

Derek Walcott

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• I wasn't rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn't a relationship of respect and communication, they were usually the opposite; kids go to the other extreme.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Kids
  • Friends
  • Parents

• It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what your relationship is to who you're playing and then letting go, just being there.

  

  Frances Conroy
  • Time
  • Character
  • Relationship

• I'm so happy to be in a committed relationship.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Happy
  • Relationship

• When two people in an intimate-couple relationship look at their interactions as opportunities to learn about themselves instead of change each other, they are infusing their relationship with the energy of spiritual partnership.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • People
  • Energy
  • Change

• I am from the age of magazines, so the Internet is terrifying to me. But I am learning.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Age
  • Learning
  • Internet

• My parents divorced when I was very, very young, but they maintained an incredibly amicable relationship. They were great partners, they were great parents, and they were great friends throughout my whole life until I was about 25, at which point they realized that they could relinquish; they could call it and move on.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Life
  • Great
  • Friends

• For being in a relationship or to be linked up with somebody, you need to have time. I hang out with my friends just at my leisure, but there's no time to get into any link up.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Up
  • Time
  • Friends

• I've written a few songs that have to do with being in a relationship, the bad and the good.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Relationship

• My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Good
  • Great
  • Parents

• It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn't want the question raised, 'What's your relationship with Daniel Ellsberg?' And not one of them wrote me a letter because they didn't want a letter of theirs to show up in my trash - which the FBI had been going through.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • Up
  • Good
  • Relationship

• Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • God
  • Man
  • Relationship

• When you have an author and an auteur, it's a difficult and challenging relationship.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • You
  • Relationship
  • Difficult

• It's important in a relationship to have moments when you do your own thing.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Important
  • You
  • Relationship

• When your maturity is derived from circumstantial factors other than faith, your level of maturity would continue to fluctuate rather than being stable. This is why I am enabled to maintain a balance and stable approach to the challenges that come my way every day. I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • People
  • God
  • Why

• For me, I'm not a jealous person. That's just not my thing. You have to have trust in your relationship.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Relationship
  • Person
  • Jealous

• You know when you have a good relationship with someone when you are just perfectly happy to be quiet and just hang out and do nothing.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Relationship

• Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Words
  • Relationship
  • Poetry

• Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Great
  • Children
  • Relationship

• I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans.

  

  Bill Walton
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Team

• I think that 'Prayers' is a really interesting one because we wrote it well before the border crisis was happening, and in that first verse, I was actually writing about the experience of me and my wife's relationship and finding someone who you feel safe with and you relate to and can ponder existence with.

  

  Benji Madden Good Charlotte
  • Relationship
  • Existence
  • Crisis

• My grandma had a kids' clothing store for over 30 years called Shannon and Company, and my sisters and I used to go and work there in the summers.

  

  Kourtney Kardashian
  • Work
  • Kids
  • Grandma

• Hollow commitments to action in the future are insufficient. Deferring difficult issues must not be tolerated. Our children and grandchildren expect us to speak and act decisively.

  

  Jenny Shipley
  • Children
  • Future
  • Action

• I knew I loved music, and I knew that I could feel music. So, I knew I had rhythm.

  

  Amy Purdy
  • Music

• My relationship to Britain is of no consequence.

  

  Derek Walcott
  • Relationship