Ethel Waters Quotes

I could depend a lot on my shaking, though I never shimmied vulgarly and only to express myself.

Ethel Waters

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• Sometimes Hillary Clinton doesn't get the credit she deserves. But the fact is, Hillary is steady, and Hillary is true.

  

  Barack Obama
  • She
  • True
  • Sometimes

• The end of a thing, is never the end, something is always being born like a year of a baby.

  

  Lucille Clifton
  • Years
  • Baby
  • Born

• I'm not the kind of guy who wants to be on a pedestal.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Guy
  • Wants
  • Pedestal

• In peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of an average but of an absolute; the hundred per cent standard in which the ninety-nine were played down to the level of the weakest man on parade.... The deeper the discipline, the lower was the individual excellence; also the more sure the performance.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Men
  • Peace
  • Military

• I have miles to go before I sleep...

  

  Robert Frost
  • Sleep
  • Miles

• I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Government
  • Sharing
  • Burdens

• The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Children
  • Desires

• Sleep, ignorant of pain, sleep, ignorant of grief, may you come to us blowing softly, kindly, kindly come king.

  

  Sophocles
  • Pain
  • Sleep
  • King

• Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin' hymns is a great thing to do.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Community
  • Church
  • Centre

• How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Truth
  • Value
  • Spirit

• Our unconscious, then, does not believe in its own death; it behaves as if it were immortal. It knows nothing that is negative; in it contradictories coincide. This may be the secret of heroism.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Believe
  • Death
  • Heroism

• When I was a child in the 1940s and early 1950s, my parents and grandparents spoke of Britain as home, and New Zealand had this strong sense of identity and coherence as being part of the commonwealth and a the identity of its people as being British.

  

  Michael King
  • Parents
  • Strong
  • Identity

• It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Things
  • Look
  • Depends

• I could depend a lot on my shaking, though I never shimmied vulgarly and only to express myself.

  

  Ethel Waters
  • Depends
  • Shaking