Agnes Baker Pilgrim Quotes

We have been brought together by a common vision to form a new global alliance. We are the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers. Ours is an alliance of prayer, education, and healing for our Mother Earth, all her inhabitants, all the children, and for the next seven generations to come.

Agnes Baker Pilgrim

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• The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Kids
  • Reality
  • Care

• Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • People
  • Great
  • True

• It was so satisfying for me - a great reward, just to see it done well. And it was beautifully directed by my daughter Susan Riskin. Imagine, a play about my mother directed by my daughter?!

  

  Fay Wray
  • Great
  • Done
  • Mother

• I said to myself as Junction Point embarked on the Epic Mickey journey that, worst case, we'd be 'a footnote in Disney history.' Looking back on it, I think we did far better than that.

  

  Warren Spector
  • History
  • Myself
  • Journey

• Science is one of a handful of things that defines us as a very special species. It is amazing how far we have been able to get and how accurate our predictions are. I think understanding how the universe was born is very important. It really gives us a perspective on many things.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Important
  • Science
  • Amazing

• A heck of a lot more accountability comes from individuals or the church doing it than the government, that signs off on helping people at 5 o'clock, because it comes from the heart, not from a badge or a mandate.

  

  Doug LaMalfa
  • People
  • Heart
  • Church

• I've always been this strong-willed person and I've always been in love with acting.

  

  Kristy Swanson
  • Strong

• If we're discussing women's empowerment and equal rights, then yes, I support it.

  

  Dulquer Salmaan
  • Women
  • Support

• No, like I said, my dad was never really part of the tennis. His involvement around what I did with the tennis and with my mom and my grandparents was really not a part of my life.

  

  Jimmy Connors
  • Life
  • Dad
  • Mom

• I didn't love Jim Morrison 'cause he was self-destructive. I loved him because of his work. Because of the way he merged poetry and rock-and-roll. Because he did something new.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Work
  • Rock
  • Poetry

• I said from the very beginning, 'Yahoo should position itself as a technology innovation company, not as a media company.'

  

  Masayoshi Son
  • Technology
  • Beginning
  • Innovation

• The rule was I had to go to college, and I couldn't even go to theater camp.

  

  Betty Gilpin
  • College

• He's looking for the president's kidnapped daughter; everybody he calls on to help him is busy, but lo and behold, you look across the room, and I'm waiting for that action.

  

  Derek Luke
  • Help
  • Action
  • Waiting

• We lived in a ghetto. I could have pretended I was hard or tough and not a square. I wound up not getting in trouble. I don't consider myself to be especially wise, but I will say that it's pretty clear that some people want to get out and some people don't. I wanted out.

  

  Andre Braugher
  • People
  • Up
  • Pretty

• I just love making people laugh.

  

  Jodie Comer
  • People

• Dad often told me, 'My job is to help my boss do his job and make him look good.' That was my dad's objective. Everything about the way he conducted himself was to communicate support for his superiors and respect for his coworkers. The way he dressed was his starting point in that communication.

  

  Lyle Lovett
  • Good
  • Job
  • Help

• As much as I love art, there is no art as fine as the world we have been given.

  

  Mark Helprin
  • World
  • Art

• There's the famous thing that the A&R man from the record company is supposed to do: He's supposed to come into the studio and listen to the songs you've been recording and then say, 'Guys, I don't hear any singles.' And then everybody falls into a terrible depression because you have to write one.

  

  Jarvis Cocker Pulp
  • Famous
  • Depression

• Love so seldom means happiness.

  

  Margery Allingham
  • Love
  • Happiness
  • For Him

• I do think stories are one of the best tools for communicating across any number of cultures. But I also think there are wildly successful leaders who are introverted, disciplined, lead via spreadsheets and goals, and might not "appear" to be a great leader...but in retrospect, made a massive impact.

  

  David Livermore
  • Thinking
  • Culture
  • Successful

• Love your parents, but don't have them as your mates.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • Parents

• For my part, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order, which associates with heaven that idea of equality which prevents the rich from destroying the poor.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Religion
  • Mystery
  • Discover

• America is a living idea. It isn't only the tenets of its founding, but also the terms of its future. Every day, we make America. Seeking to preserve and enshrine one vision of this country from one period of its past robs it of what makes it magical: its infinite possibility for adjustment.

  

  Charles M. Blow
  • Country
  • America
  • Future

• We have been brought together by a common vision to form a new global alliance. We are the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers. Ours is an alliance of prayer, education, and healing for our Mother Earth, all her inhabitants, all the children, and for the next seven generations to come.

  

  Agnes Baker Pilgrim
  • Vision
  • Prayer
  • Council