Isabel Wilkerson Quotes

It occurred to me that no matter where I lived, geography could not save me.

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• The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Up
  • Man
  • Chinese

• I lived in Montreal from the time I was 12 until I was 16.

  

  Oscar Taveras
  • Time
  • Lived
  • Montreal

• When I lived in Egypt, we always wore kaftans. I had cashmere kaftans from Halston. You put on a kaftan in your backyard, and it's like you're in Ibiza.

  

  Iman
  • You
  • Lived
  • Egypt

• I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Myself
  • Find
  • Save

• I can't give a decent toast to save my life.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Save

• Each decade, I've lived in that decade, so I could easily shed the '20s, the '30s, the '40s.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Lived
  • Decade
  • Shed

• I watched a lot of old movies. Clint Eastwood movies, a lot of John Wayne films, a lot of movies that celebrated the region of where I lived.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Movies
  • Old
  • Lived

• The planet doesn't require saving, and actually hasn't asked Greenpeace to save it.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Planet
  • Save
  • Actually

• When I appeared in 'Coronation Street,' I lived in Manchester and enjoyed it very much.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Very
  • Street
  • Lived

• I've lived, laughed, lost, and loved again the whole Shakespearian thing.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Lost
  • Loved
  • Lived

• We need to do everything possible to save the Jewish state. We don't have another Jewish state.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Need
  • Possible
  • Save

• I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Great
  • Destiny
  • Geography

• One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Born
  • India
  • Lived

• By the time I was 10, I had lived in 11 different countries.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Time
  • Different
  • Lived

• We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Songs
  • Lived
  • Pop

• We lived in Manhattan, which was unbearable sometimes because it was so noisy. There were sirens blaring, construction sites going, people shouting and swearing at each other.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • People
  • Lived
  • Construction

• We think the man with the best rap will protect and save us, but it's not usually that way. Love is something deeper and purer.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Man
  • Rap
  • Protect

• What are your choices? Whom are your choices for? Not just for yourself. Chose now whom you will serve, and that choice is going to affect the next generation, and the next generation, and the next. Choice never affects just one person alone. It goes on and on and the effect goes out into geography and history. You are part of history and your choices become part of history.

  

  Edith Schaeffer
  • Life
  • History
  • Alone

• The biggest battles in human history can only ever be seen through the eyes of the bloke on the front line, and that's by definition a very focused view and one that will vary from individual to individual.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • History
  • Eyes
  • View

• [in the true mad north] of introspection, where 'falcons of the inner eye' dive and die, glimpsing in their dying fall, all life's memory of existence.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Life
  • True
  • Die

• In great misfortunes, people want to be alone. They have a right to be. And the misfortunes that occur within one are the greatest. Surely the saddest thing in the world is falling out of love – if once one has ever fallen in.

  

  Willa Cather
  • People
  • World
  • Love

• Your patience may have long to wait,Whether in little things or great,But all good luck, you soon will learn,Must come to those who nobly earn.Who hunts the hay-field overWill find the four-leaved clover.

  

  Sarah Orne Jewett
  • Long
  • Waiting
  • Luck

• I never listen to the radio. If it's bad, I make fun of it, and if it's good, I get jealous that I didn't think of it.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Fun
  • Radio

• It occurred to me that no matter where I lived, geography could not save me.

  

  Isabel Wilkerson
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