Marian Wright Edelman Quotes

Don't assume a door is closed; push on it. Don't assume if it was closed yesterday that it is closed today. Don't ever stop learning and improving your mind. If you do, you're going to be left behind.

Marian Wright Edelman

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• Learning
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• I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Brilliant
  • Rude
  • Outrageous

• I had strong legs that would have made me a good sumo wrestler and I used that to my advantage, but my home runs were achieved by technique.

  

  Sadaharu Oh
  • Good
  • Home
  • Strong

• Obama has built his public image around his ability to bridge divisions - racial, ideological or generational. And that was his reputation, even at Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the 'Law Review.'

  

  Mara Liasson
  • School
  • Black
  • Law

• All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Risk
  • Feel
  • Audience

• Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Business
  • Appreciate
  • Your

• Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Great
  • Art
  • Steal

• I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Now
  • Now And Then
  • Bath

• I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Land
  • Landscape
  • Isolation

• I'm just someone who marvels at God.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • God
  • Just
  • Someone

• Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Simple
  • Proud
  • Issues

• Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.

  

  Randy Newman
  • God
  • Memory
  • Thank God

• I remember the great atmosphere and the great stadium.

  

  Carl Zeiss
  • Great
  • Remember
  • Stadium

• I made a very concerted decision to go to drama school in the United States. But I did have the opportunity to go to Britain's Central School of Speech and Drama, and my dad and I had a few tense words about that. He wanted me to go to British drama school.

  

  Kate Burton
  • School
  • Words
  • Opportunity

• Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Love
  • Person
  • For Her

• Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Money
  • Attention
  • Drama

• Designers have told me that their collections are so me, but I don't always recognise it because if you ask me what my style is, I'm really not that sure.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Me
  • Style
  • Always

• If an organization values innovation, you can assume it's safe to speak up with new ideas, leaders will listen, and your voice matters.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Up
  • Ideas
  • Voice

• If I'm so popular, why did they replace me with Tommy Thayer?

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Why
  • Me
  • Popular

• If, therefore, there is any grace in the water, it is not from the nature of water but from the Spirit's presence there.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Nature
  • Water
  • Grace

• There's no way to explain it. We just got beat up. We're not stop-ping nobody, man. ... And if we can't stop nobody on the defensive end then it's hard to get into any type of running game, easy baskets. Every time they're scoring on us, and we're coming down and playing against a half-court set.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Game

• As a young man, I saw families prosper without reading because there were always sufficient opportunities for willing workers who could follow simple instructions. This is no longer the case. Children who don't read are, in the main, destined for lesser lives. I feel a deep sense of responsibility to change this.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Children
  • Change
  • Reading

• The intellectual who wants to do her work properly must today go back to the starting point: the woman whom she knows, and first of all to herself. It is at that level, and at no other, that she ought to begin to think about the world situation.

  

  Jacques Ellul
  • World
  • Work
  • She

• Religion comforts us for the defeat of our will to power. It adds new worlds to ours, and thus brings us hope of new conquests and new victories. We are converted to religion out of fear of suffocating within the narrow confines of this world.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • World
  • Power
  • Hope

• Don't assume a door is closed; push on it. Don't assume if it was closed yesterday that it is closed today. Don't ever stop learning and improving your mind. If you do, you're going to be left behind.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Mind
  • Today
  • Stop