Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes

The church grew, and I gained a reputation for preaching, and people came, and it was a wonderful community. But we had a building that seated 82 people, and with a congregation then approaching 400 we were up to four services on Sunday, and everyone was tired.

Barbara Brown Taylor

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• Dinner is often a stew of beans or legumes, which are awesome for dieting; they give you that meaty satisfaction and both are excellent with whole grain rice or bread.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Awesome
  • Dinner
  • Bread

• I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Mind
  • Loved
  • Kid

• The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • America
  • England
  • Greater

• I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Years
  • Point
  • Early

• When you're 16, the top of the world is directing a gangster movie.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • World
  • Movie
  • You

• We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • God
  • Different
  • Country

• In the future, I'd like to make jewelry and sell it under my own name. But right now, I've got enough on my plate!

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Future
  • Name
  • Jewelry

• Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.

  

  Vanessa Redgrave
  • You
  • Find
  • Questions

• The constant in all the businesses I've become a part of is taking what I do and making it real for everyone. I believe fantasy and dreaming can be made a reality. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a VIP.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Reality

• I think it's more important to be fit so that you can be healthy and enjoy activities than it is to have a good body.

  

  Rachel Blanchard
  • Good
  • Important
  • Healthy

• It has always seemed a cruel joke to me that the very word 'stutter' is difficult for many stutterers to pronounce. It is onomatopoeic, an imitation of the halting, repetitive sound made by people with this speech dysfunction.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • People
  • Difficult
  • Speech

• I came from a working-class family, but I was supported by a grant system and had my fees paid, so I came out of Oxford with a debt of something like £200.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Family
  • System
  • Debt

• Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Want
  • You
  • Now

• When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Learned

• Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Important
  • May
  • Brainy

• I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Money

• Every song, every form of art, clothing, shoes, it has to be special.

  

  Nick van de Wall
  • Art
  • Song
  • Shoes

• I almost always use first person voice in my novels. It has its limitations, but it gives a sense of immediacy that's hard to create with an anonymous, all-seeing narrator.

  

  Laurie Graham
  • Anonymous

• You'd be surprised at how many times I'd hit the ball, and the hair would go straight into my eyes. That's why, even when I play indoors, I wear a visor, because it stops that, and I'll apply a lot of gel and hairspray to keep it tight.

  

  Ana Ivanovic
  • Why
  • Eyes
  • Hair

• With every film that you do, you're always so nervous. You feel exposed because you know people will see this eventually. You sort of have to put all that out of your head. What will be will be. But it's nerve wracking.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Know
  • Always

• Everything has to do with education: If you educate the girls, you educate the family, the community, and society, in general.

  

  Alek Wek
  • Family
  • Society
  • Education

• I'm not going to be able to play it like somebody else.

  

  Sam J. Jones
  • Play
  • Like
  • Going

• As an actress, to get to work on a project where the main focus is the female voice is rare!

  

  Jodie Whittaker
  • Work
  • Focus

• The church grew, and I gained a reputation for preaching, and people came, and it was a wonderful community. But we had a building that seated 82 people, and with a congregation then approaching 400 we were up to four services on Sunday, and everyone was tired.

  

  Barbara Brown Taylor
  • Community
  • Church
  • Building