Eddie Griffin Quotes
It was frustrating because I didn't do anything, ... I was at the wrong place at the wrong time, and he decided to punish me. I couldn't do anything about it.
Quotes to Explore
-
Great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead.
-
Love brings to light the lofty and hidden characteristics of the lover--what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it caneasily be deceptive with respect to what is normal in him.
-
When I don't understand something, I reach up and hold God's hand. And we walk together in silence.
-
Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.
-
I now know that anything sweet, really sweet, that I have was nothing that I planned. If you don't have kids and animals, you don't truly know what real life is about.
-
I discovered a version of the sinner's prayer that increased my faith far more than the one that I had said years earlier...In this version, there were no formulas, no set phrases that promised us safe passage across the abyss. There was only our tattered trust that the Spirit who had given us life would not leave us in the wilderness without offering us life again.
-
The elderly are all someone's flesh and blood and we cannot just shut them in a cupboard and hand over the responsibility for taking care of them to the state.
-
Several generations of high school students have grown up ignoring and disbelieving everything they've heard from government and police about drugs, including information that was factual and valid, because they discovered for themselves that most of what has been taught to them was simply not true.
-
What’s your problem? Why can’t you just be happy for people instead of seeing the world through the haze of your own misery?
-
Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.
-
That old man...had my division massacred at Gettysburg!
-
My dad was actually against me being a photographer. He thought it was a dead-end job and that you end up doing baby pictures and weddings.
-
I can’t worry too much about the everyday things. Otherwise I’d lose touch with my own world, that helps me as an artist, but it’s frustrating for the people around me. I’m vaguely functional, but there’s always something slightly off.
-
It was frustrating because I didn't do anything, ... I was at the wrong place at the wrong time, and he decided to punish me. I couldn't do anything about it.
