James A. Baldwin Quotes

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

James A. Baldwin

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• Now Heaven and Earth are older than the temples, and older than the Scriptures.

  

  Eden Ahbez
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Now

• I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.

  

  Eden Ahbez
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Wind

• To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Heaven
  • Chinese
  • River

• The kingdom of heaven is like electricity. You don't see it. It is within you.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Heaven
  • See
  • Electricity

• I want to make it to Heaven and be as good an influence on others as I can in that process.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Good
  • Heaven
  • Process

• A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • World
  • Rest
  • Looking

• In the West, anything that must be hidden is suspect; availability and honesty are interlinked. This clashes irreconcilably with Islam, where the things that are most precious, most perfect and most holy are always hidden: the Kaaba, the faces of prophets and angels, a woman's body, Heaven.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Perfect
  • Heaven
  • Woman

• I'm named after a computer and grew up really interested in them.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Up
  • Computer
  • After

• The heptathlon is made up of seven events, and people have strengths and weaknesses.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • People
  • Up
  • Seven

• I went to the University of Michigan for one year, and fortunately they had a foreign-film cinema, and I discovered it, and I thought I died and went to heaven.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Heaven
  • Thought
  • Year

• Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward Heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Together
  • Future
  • Faith

• Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Marriage
  • Heaven
  • Hell

• Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Effort

• When it comes to swag, there's no gender involved.

  

  Young Thug
  • Involved
  • Gender

• If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy invaded it, we would already be living in heaven.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Law

• An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Nature

• We must assent to the will of Heaven above and conform to the wishes of men on earth below, but the government should assert the majesty of its warlike might in order to drive away the hordes of fierce and cruel men. We know that the dispositions of these outer barbarians are as ravenous as those of wolves.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Government

• The question of Heaven, the question of what happens after death, is one which a lot of people in our culture try to put off as long as they can, but sooner or later it suddenly swings round and looks them in the eye.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • People
  • Long
  • Death

• Xi Jinping is one of the strongest and most capable revolutionary leaders I have met in my life.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Capable

• You got to control your own destiny. You got to keep writin' different stuff. Keep switchin' up and never do the same thing too many times.

  

  Chris Tucker
  • Up
  • Different
  • Control

• Glad it was you and not me," Shane said, and offered Myrin a hand up. "Any brain damage?" "Since the bullet actually passed through his brain, then yes, idiot boy, there's certainly brain damage," Oliver said. "It will pass. His brain's the least fragile thing about him." "You say the nicest things," Myrin said. He was slurring his words, and he threw an arm around Oliver's neck. "Marry me.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • Words
  • Hand

• To discover new continents, you must be willing to lose sight of the shore.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Willing
  • Loses
  • Sight

• Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • People
  • Die
  • Waiting

• Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

  

  James A. Baldwin
  • Heaven