Lucille Clifton Quotes

Come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed.

Lucille Clifton

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• When you celebrate, it's something that happens as a group. But when you mourn, sorrow is something that you handle as an individual.

  

  Irvin Mayfield
  • Sorrow
  • Group
  • Celebrate

• I think Delhiites know how to party, but Kolkata has people who know how to celebrate. I think that's the main difference.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • People
  • Party
  • Celebrate

• Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Find
  • Humor
  • Celebrate

• A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.

  

  Abraham Polonsky
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• About 10,000 people a day go on first dates from Match... We're trying to celebrate that, bring those success stories to the forefront and make it even easier in our product to meet up at Starbucks.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Woman
  • Skyscraper

• One of my favorite - well, my favorite, favorite, absolute favorite event to go to is Alfre Woodard has a party that I call the blacktress party. It's, like, black actresses that either have been nominated for an Oscar or should have been, and it sort of is just a night where we all get in a room and we get to celebrate each other.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Night
  • Black
  • Party

• In my head, I consider 'No Turning Back' my 'dipping the toe in the water' album. It was mostly covers of favorite songs, and there were three originals in there. So, it feels like it was just my album to see what the temperature of the water was.

  

  Imelda May
  • Water
  • See
  • Three

• Projects meant living with blacks and Puerto Ricans, but that's what we wanted. Living in the projects, we've met so many wonderful, wonderful people.

  

  Yuri Kochiyama
  • People
  • Wonderful People

• Fire is to represent truth because it destroys all sophistry and lies; and the mask is for lying and falsehood which conceal truth.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Truth
  • Fire
  • Lies

• Whenever somebody folds, say, 'Good laydown.' It encourages them to fold on a later hand because it makes them feel like you had the best hand even if you were bluffing. It's an odd form of flattery that seems to work at the poker table.

  

  Cheryl Hines
  • Good
  • Work
  • Hand

• I have run with the bulls in Pamplona. I have raced with Mario Andretti in Indianapolis. I have climbed the Great Wall of China. I have jumped out of airplanes over Kansas.

  

  Craig Sager
  • Great
  • Wall

• All of these charges by McCarthy were a way of getting the Democrats out of power. The Democrats had controlled the government for 20 years, and the New Deal had helped a lot of people. So Republicans turned instead to saying that the Democrats were soft on communism, which was ridiculous.

  

  David Oshinsky
  • People
  • Power

• People tell us they have been inspired by our music to do great things.

  

  James Young Styx
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• We showed the world you could enjoy being a footballer; you could laugh and have a fantastic time. I represent the era which proved that attractive football was enjoyable and successful, and good fun to play too.

  

  Johan Cruyff
  • Time
  • World
  • Good

• The Heisman attention has definitely been a little bit of a surprise. It's been out of my hands. It's something I'm not focused on. I'm focused on the season and trying to win as many games as possible.

  

  Johnny Manziel
  • Trying
  • Attention

• People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.

  

  Lucille Clifton
  • People
  • Wish
  • Poetry

• They may kill me, but they cannot kill my ideas. They can crush my body, but they will not be able to crush my spirit.

  

  Bhagat Singh
  • May
  • Spirit
  • Able

• You have your thoughts and I have mine. This is the fact and you can't change it even if you kill me.

  

  Ba Jin
  • Thoughts
  • Facts
  • Kill Me

• Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Free
  • Words
  • Poetry

• If you can't drink a lobbyist's whiskey, take his money, sleep with his women and still vote against him in the morning, you don't belong in politics.

  

  Brian Redman
  • Women
  • Money
  • Politics

• The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Like
  • Doubt
  • Dead

• To all of us the thought of heaven is dear -Why not be sure of it and make it here?No doubt there is a heaven yonder too,But 'tis so far away - and you are near.Men talk of heaven, - there is no heaven but here;Men talk of hell, - there is no hell but here;Men of hereafters talk, and future lives,O love, there is no other life - but here.

  

  Richard Le Gallienne
  • Future
  • Heaven
  • Doubt

• Come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed.

  

  Lucille Clifton
  • Celebrate
  • Kill Me