Shirley Chisholm (Shirley Anita Chisholm) Quotes

Women must become revolutionary. This cannot be evolution but revolution.

Shirley Chisholm

• Revolution
• Evolution
• Revolutionary

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I join with Governor Rick Snyder and thousands of grassroots supporters and activists from across the state of Michigan in asking you all to please help me in supporting Pete Hoekstra, who I am proud to endorse. He will be our next United States senator.

  

  Candice S. Miller
  • United States
  • Senator
  • Supporters

• Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Why
  • Door
  • Speak

• In Hollywood, there's a network of creative executives, and when they hear something is good, it catches fire.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • Good
  • Fire
  • Creative

• Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Death
  • Personality
  • Catholic

• I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Job
  • Cancer
  • Mission

• If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Against

• When I was 16 or 17, I started listening to Death Cab, and I started writing my own songs. I was writing alternative rock, and I had a seven-piece band. The shift was just iterations of experimentation and finding what sounded right. When I stumbled on the sound and vibe that I currently have, it was kind of by chance.

  

  Verite
  • Writing
  • Death
  • Band

• A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Man
  • Lost
  • Forever

• A lot of what I think I do as a director is try to give everything over to the actor. So I disappear.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Think
  • Try
  • Director

• As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • History
  • Books
  • Author

• My singing is my hobby. It's me and my brother. We just enjoy writing music.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Singing

• Frank Miller is more of a visionary than any director I've ever worked with, and he achieves that vision better than anyone I've ever worked with.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Vision
  • Better
  • Visionary

• I'm sure at some point I will get back into coaching, but right now I need to focus completely on my kids.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Kids
  • Focus
  • Now

• Tugend ist zur Energie gewordne Vernunft.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

• Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.

  

  Lionel Trilling
  • Culture

• ’They are a very great boon to mankind, dentists,’ said Isabel. ‘And I’m not sure that we are grateful enough to them. I’m not sure that we even bother to thank them.’ She paused. Were there any statues of dentists? She thought not. And yet there should be.

  

  Alexander McCall Smith
  • Thank
  • Statues
  • Dentists

• As with most physical activity, yoga helps boost your immune system. However, it also stretches and strengthens your body simultaneously, while also balancing your mind and spirit. It benefits the whole human.

  

  Jennifer Nettles Sugarland
  • Mind
  • Yoga

• The really good stuff- the 'Hamiltons' - comes out after decades of writing and being committed.

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Good
  • Writing

• Don't ever underestimate the importance of treating others with respect and kindness.

  

  Alison Levine
  • Respect
  • Kindness
  • Importance

• For me, the moment the mic is on and it's rolling, it's impossible to vocally relax for some reason. But one day, I'm going to be able to sing the way I sang when I was a little kid, completely open and free. That's, I think, the one thing that's changed: Growing older, I'm not ashamed to hear my voice.

  

  Cat Power
  • Moments
  • Reason
  • Impossible

• In the penultimate decade of the twentieth century science is sufficiently advanced to resolve the puzzles that stymied scientists in the last century and demonstrate, without metaphysical speculation, the consistency of evolution in all realms of experience. It is now possible to advance a general evolution theory based on unitary and mutually consistent concepts derived from the empirical sciences.

  

  Ervin Laszlo
  • Experience
  • Science
  • Evolution

• I think by the next generation either we'll have a lot of idiots who are just completely immersed in media and corporatized information, or we'll have people who enjoy media and corporatized information, but are more interconnected with human beings around the world ... And who share common goals and are willing to accept that they are a global citizen. I think the latter is more the direction.

  

  Aloe Blacc
  • People
  • World
  • Goals

• Art demands persistent work, work in spite of everything, and continuous observations. By persistent, I mean not only continuous work, but also not giving up your opinion at the bidding of such and such a person.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Giving
  • Mean
  • Opinion

• Women must become revolutionary. This cannot be evolution but revolution.

  

  Shirley Chisholm
  • Revolution
  • Evolution
  • Revolutionary