Ethel Waters Quotes

Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners.

Ethel Waters

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• If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Job
  • Think
  • Right

• Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.

  

  Nanci Griffith
  • Life
  • Great
  • Live

• Man, I have had so much plastic surgery, I don't even recognize myself, sometimes. If I catch a glimpse in a window or something, I think it is someone else.

  

  Vince Neil Mötley Crüe
  • Man
  • Myself
  • Window

• Family is always first. Even though my kids are older - my son is 25 and my daughter is 21 - I still like to sit down and have dinner with them as much as I can.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Son

• A writer is not a prophet, is not a philosopher; he's just someone who is witness to what is around him. And so writing is a way to... it's the best way to testify, to be a witness.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Best

• The upside of web-based journalism is that everybody gets a chance. The downside is that everybody gets a chance.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Chance
  • Journalism
  • Upside

• No man can add one dollar to his bank account by worrying.

  

  Vash Young
  • Man
  • Bank
  • Dollar

• She smashes her knuckles into winter As autumn's wind fades into black She is the saint of all the sinners, the one whose fallen through the cracks... (iViva la Gloria!)

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • She
  • Black
  • Wind

• Words are very much my thing. I'm very picky and choosy with them. So, I kind of edit myself to the point of, almost stumping myself, sometimes.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • Words
  • Kind
  • Sometimes

• The success of Yoga must not be measured by how flexible your body becomes, but rather by how much it opens your heart.

  

  Tirumalai Krishnamacharya Venkata Desikachar
  • Heart
  • Success
  • Body

• The notion of sitting down and conjuring up, not only words in which to clothe thoughts but thoughts worthy of being clothed--the whole thing was absurdly beyond his desires.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Up
  • Words
  • Desire

• ...for a moment people set down their glasses in county clubs and speak-easies and thought of their old best dreams.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Dream
  • Glasses

• These acts of terrorism are being committed by American citizens in this particular instance at a Planned Parenthood site, certain with a political agenda, fueled by the extremist rhetoric that we`ve seen from some on the hill and from people all across the country as it relates to a woman`s right to choose.

  

  Hakeem Jeffries
  • People
  • Country
  • American

• Stop. Stop everything. Then you will realize you are the freedom you have been searching for.

  

  H. W. L. Poonja
  • Freedom
  • Stop
  • Realizing

• Chopsticks or no chopsticks, it was the Chinese who first used knives and forks.

  

  L. M. Boyd
  • Chinese
  • Firsts
  • Knives

• You can help me by advancing equality, supporting arts and education, and saving this goddamn planet.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Help
  • Education
  • Equality

• God will not speak to me and tell me to mow my lawn today.

  

  Ian Bogost
  • God
  • Today
  • Speak

• He's been a good player in this league for a long period of time and I've always enjoyed watching him play. For me, I didn't know what was going to happen. Obviously, things were going on and he didn't feel like he wanted to be here. I didn't pay much attention to it.

  

  Eli Manning
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• You cannot say, 'No, Lord,' and mean both words; one annuls the other. If you say no to Him, then He is not your Lord.

  

  D. James Kennedy
  • Words
  • Mean
  • Lord

• If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.

  

  Samuel J. Palmisano
  • People
  • Society
  • Control

• I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.

  

  William Tecumseh Sherman
  • People
  • Opinion
  • Differences

• There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property.

  

  William Blackstone
  • Imagination
  • Mankind
  • Property

• Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners.

  

  Ethel Waters
  • Differences
  • Southerner
  • Northerners