Alice Childress Quotes

Everybody's got some sin, but if it troubles your heart you're a gentle sinner, just a good soul gone wrong.

Alice Childress

• Heart
• Soul
• Sin

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.'

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Music
  • Different
  • Look

• I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Know
  • Me
  • Travel

• As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Men
  • Struggle
  • Battle

• I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Time
  • Long
  • Want

• Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Free
  • Independent
  • Africa

• I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Life
  • Love
  • Beyonce

• You may earn whatever money you earn as a cricketer, but you want to play for your country. At the end of the day, you want to do something special. There are plenty of people who earn 50 crores or 100 crores as businessmen or big professionals or who are really doing well in business. But what gives pleasure to your mom and dad is the fame.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • People
  • Country
  • Money

• I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Why
  • Understand

• I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.

  

  Harold Nicholas
  • People
  • Study
  • Brother

• Showbiz can be cruel.

  

  Nadia Bjorlin
  • Cruel
  • Showbiz

• I have a strong emotional respect for Steve.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Strong
  • Respect
  • Emotional

• When I started in 1992, I really thought the 'Vogue' fashion department was one of the most frightening places on the planet.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Fashion
  • Thought
  • Places

• From the very beginning, I've always just wanted to do something I've never done before. I'm still just trying to be on that path. It's all about working with filmmakers that you believe in.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • Done

• To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.

  

  J. P. Donleavy
  • Poverty
  • Look
  • Irish

• A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Desire
  • Day
  • Everyday

• It worked!

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

• The ecological teaching of the Bible is simply inescapable: God made the world because He wanted it made. He thinks the world is good, and He loves it. It is His world; He has never relinquished title to it. And He has never revoked the conditions, bearing on His gift to us of the use of it, that oblige us to take excellent care of it.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • World
  • Good
  • God

• Maybe that’s what the Masters are afraid of. Maybe celibacy isn’t as necessary as the Rule of Roke teaches. Maybe it’s not a way of keeping the power pure, but of keeping the power to themselves.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Power

• If I come across an issue, or something I feel strongly about, and I happen to think of a song that would go in that direction, then I do it. But that's not what I start out, necessarily, to do. Sometimes I may have an idea for a song - "Well, I'm going to write about a thing.

  

  Charlie Daniels
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • May

• Heart of my heart, the world is young; Love lies hidden in every rose! Every song that the skylark sung Once, we thought, must come to a close: Now we know the spirit of song, Song that is merged in the chant of the whole, Hand in hand as we wander along, What should we doubt of the years that roll?

  

  Alfred Noyes
  • World
  • Heart
  • Song

• It is in length of patience, endurance and forbearance that so much of what is good in mankind and womankind is shown.

  

  Arthur Helps
  • Patience
  • Mankind
  • Forbearance

• Everybody's got some sin, but if it troubles your heart you're a gentle sinner, just a good soul gone wrong.

  

  Alice Childress
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Sin