Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes

I'm a follower of the Christ path, and that opens a huge discussion about what we even mean by words like "Christian."

Barbara Brown Taylor

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• I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.

  

  Sade Adu
  • People
  • Time
  • Shy

• I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Summer
  • Fight
  • Line

• If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am! My size is a huge part of me.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Size

• What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Man

• I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Inspired

• For 'Way Down Low', I was particularly inspired by a breakup I was going through and a transition I was making from Austin to New York.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Inspired
  • New York
  • Down

• Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Women
  • Fashion
  • Body

• A girl who is interested in becoming a model must first accept the fact that she is the product. She must be ready to deal with a lot of rejection.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • Girl
  • Model
  • Rejection

• I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Family
  • American
  • Dream

• You get to relive your childhood when you have a baby and you see these toys and these books you read when you were little - the innocence that you are able to maintain because you have to find that again in order to connect with your child keeps you in a special state of mind.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Mind
  • Childhood
  • Child

• Unfortunately, I think there's not enough education about hydration. When I was young, we knew nothing about it. We all know that there's cases of athletes having serious issues because of dehydration and even dying.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Think
  • Education
  • Serious

• It's not just the physical aspect of boxing, it's the whole fighter mentality that has been ingrained in me through the years as a competitive athlete. One of the hardest things you'll ever do is to box - to get into the ring and to face off with somebody whose whole goal is to knock you out, to hurt you, and to be able to fight back.

  

  Cara Castronuova
  • Hurt
  • Goal
  • Fight

• There's a lot of creativity in the industry, but I don't necessarily think that the most creative DJs or producers are always the biggest ones. I think it would be nice to see more of an open culture to different music. I think that's happening. With Spotify, I think people are discovering a lot of artists they might not discover otherwise.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Truth
  • Today
  • Present

• Vitia erunt donec homines

  

  Tacitus

• Their forms had no more influence on me than they did on Matisse. Or Derain. But for them, the masks were sculptures like all others. When Matisse showed me his first African head, he spoke to me of Egyptian art.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art

• When I'm home, I'm just mom. We're a normal, regular family doing normal, regular types of things.

  

  Lisa Vidal
  • Family
  • Home
  • Mom

• I would say that children are more resilient than you realize, and that as long as you love them, there is no right way to raise your children. You have to find your own way. It's your way and it's your child.

  

  Al Roker
  • Long
  • Children

• College is a safe space where it can be hard to truly fail. The institution is rooting for you because your failure makes them look bad, too. New York City has no such mandate. I've had to hone and sharpen and refine my work here at a pace which may not have happened in other cities.

  

  Baratunde Thurston
  • Work
  • May
  • Bad

• I'm signed to a U.S. label, and I didn't enjoy the 3 A.M. phone calls. I'm not a great sleeper, so I didn't enjoy being woken up.

  

  Estelle
  • Enjoy
  • Label
  • Woke Up

• We try to write things that can be interpreted on lots of different levels. There's not a right way or a wrong way... people can adventure a little.

  

  Danny Carey
  • Write
  • Levels
  • Interpreted

• I think we need to ask serious questions about how we engage militarily, when we engage militarily, and on what basis we engage militarily. What kind of intelligence do we have to justify a military engagement?

  

  Albert Wynn
  • Serious
  • Military
  • Engagement

• But true individuality is more about being in tune with who you truly are, whether you're expressing yourself physically, mentally, or spiritually; individuality arises from living without fear of what other might think or say about you and without being swayed by their opinions, leaving you free to lead life without caring about judgments made by the outside world.

  

  Kat Von D
  • Yourself
  • Leaving
  • Caring

• I'm a follower of the Christ path, and that opens a huge discussion about what we even mean by words like "Christian."

  

  Barbara Brown Taylor
  • Christian
  • Christ
  • Discussion