Pearl Cleage Quotes

When you're young, there's a whole lot of stuff you say you'll never do. Once you get a little older, the list tends to get shorter.

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• We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • School
  • Home
  • Kids

• People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.

  

  Ed Markey
  • People
  • Money
  • Upside Down

• Dishonesty is all about the small acts we can take and then think, 'No, this not real cheating.' So if you think that the main mechanism is rationalization, then what you come up with, and that's what we find, is that we're basically trying to balance feeling good about ourselves.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • Up
  • Good
  • Real

• Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • American
  • English
  • Literature

• I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Myself
  • Player
  • Imagination

• Martin Luther King was a leader for all Americans on our own professed values.

  

  Taylor Branch
  • King
  • Leader
  • Values

• The Qur'an, throughout all of its verses, aims mainly to establish and confirm four basic, universal truths: the existence and Oneness of the Maker of the universe; Prophethood; bodily Resurrection; and worship and justice.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Universe
  • Justice
  • Existence

• I am a Westerner of Westerners!

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Westerner

• I saw that my image was changing or fading. One of the reasons for taking a break from clubs was to be missed-not forgotten.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Break
  • Forgotten
  • Changing

• The beautiful thing is that ageism just doesn't exist on 'EastEnders.' The show saved me.

  

  Barbara Windsor
  • Beautiful
  • Me
  • Show

• I'd feel guilty just doing gags.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Feel
  • Doing
  • Guilty

• Since the dawn of recorded music, every generation has felt shocked by the musical tastes of the next.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Music
  • Generation
  • Dawn

• I always say spend more on classics, like a good pair of leather trousers, an amazing tailored jacket, or a classic handbag. Then you can just mix your everyday tops from the high street.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Good
  • High
  • Amazing

• I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Attention
  • Child
  • Teenager

• I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at all to the local people. But now, finance has become just as important to them as it is to us, and this is a change maybe not for the better.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • People
  • Important
  • Money

• The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.

  

  Ed Markey
  • War
  • Terrorism
  • Engage

• There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Good
  • Rules
  • Some

• If I could drink only one wine, it would be Champagne.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Wine
  • Drink
  • Champagne

• ...So, take what's inside you and make big, bold choices. And for those who can't speak for themselves, use bold voices. And make friends and love well, bring art to this place. And make this world better for the whole human race.

  

  Jamie Lee Curtis
  • Friends
  • Choices
  • Voices

• When I was young I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock. So I stopped wearing socks.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Young
  • Found
  • Wearing

• When I was young, I expected from people more than they could give: neverending friendship and constant excitement. Now I expect less than they can actually can give: to stay close silently. And their feelings, friendship, noble deeds always seem like a miracle to me: a true grace.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Friendship
  • Young
  • Miracle

• I couldn't believe that Donald Trump won. I couldn't believe that we elected an orangutan to front the country.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Trump

• These birds and animals and fish cannot speak, but they can suffer, and our God who created them, knows their sufferings, and will hold him who causes them to suffer unnecessarily to answer for it. It is a sin against their Creator.

  

  George Q. Cannon
  • Animals
  • Suffer
  • Creator

• When you're young, there's a whole lot of stuff you say you'll never do. Once you get a little older, the list tends to get shorter.

  

  Pearl Cleage
  • Young
  • Stuff
  • Tends