Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

I was young and could not see the weaponry my ancestors had left for me, the shield in the tall brown grass, the ax lying right next to the tree.

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• A pitcher is only as good as his legs.

  

  Early Wynn
  • Good
  • Legs
  • Pitcher

• I love the streets, and the streets love me back. And when things ain't going the way they should go, they let you know... and when they happy, you gotta keep 'em happy.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Happy
  • Way
  • Know

• I am definitely romantic, and I love romantic stories - that's why I keep making romantic movies.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Love
  • Stories
  • Movies

• The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • People
  • Time
  • Best

• I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Nothing
  • Without
  • My Own

• I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.

  

  A. James Clark
  • Way
  • Like
  • Always

• My favorite big city would have to be Chicago. I lived in Indiana for several years and would always go into the city with my family for Cubs games or to visit the aquarium and museums on field trips.

  

  Karen Fairchild Little Big Town
  • Family
  • City
  • Chicago

• I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• I am unable to give my best if I don't have my best to give.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Best
  • Give
  • Unable

• Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Die
  • Sense

• Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.

  

  Iris Johansen
  • Done
  • Always
  • Better

• I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Up
  • She
  • Mother

• Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Style

• My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Dad

• I thought martial arts was going to help me with my movies and TV stuff, but I realized it would not.

  

  Bas Rutten
  • Help
  • Thought
  • Movies

• I knew everything in the forest. I had a secret home tree, where I pretty much lived. I also liked rooftops and streetlamps. My parents would get calls saying 'He's out there again.'

  

  Bas Rutten
  • Home
  • Pretty
  • Parents

• Climate change does not respect border; it does not respect who you are - rich and poor, small and big. Therefore, this is what we call 'global challenges,' which require global solidarity.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Small
  • Change
  • Respect

• The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of interesting friends despite my ineptitude at team sports and my preference for reading.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Friends
  • Small
  • Interesting

• I do sarcasm really poorly.

  

  Brittany Murphy

• The conditions of praying are the conditions of righteousness, holiness, and salvation.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Conditions
  • Salvation
  • Holiness

• Lemurs are close to the ancestral stock from which all primates arose, and I am happy to think that one of my own ancestors, 50 million years ago, was a little tree-dwelling creature not so dissimilar to the lemurs of today. I love their leaping vitality, their inquisitive nature.

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • Happy
  • Nature
  • Today

• When I was 5, I did a commercial for Whirlpool sitting on a tree stump eating a popsicle that dripped all over my clothes.

  

  Drake Bell
  • Tree

• So would I, if I were Parmenion.

  

  Alexander the Great

• I was young and could not see the weaponry my ancestors had left for me, the shield in the tall brown grass, the ax lying right next to the tree.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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