Powerful Quotes

My first, my birth mother - her name is Queenie - she gave me a powerful medicine when I was a child. She told me that, "I was the best," and it helped me so much.

Erykah Badu
- Children
- She
- Mother
Memory is a powerful thing for a writer.

Bobbie Ann Mason
- Powerful

Jewish people are tough people. They believe in something and believe it really strong, and I find it fascinating that a small country like Israel is as powerful as it is.

Antonio Sabato, Jr.
- People
- Believe
- Country
To me, the most powerful people in this country, politically, are mayors. If you took all the mayors of the 25 biggest cities and you got them together, you could do more on that level than you ever could through the bureaucracy in Washington.

Eric Church
- People
- Country
- Together
If I give a book as a gift, it is invariably a children's book with beautiful artwork and a simple text. I adore the feel of them, the care taken in the artwork, and the high visual stimulation that sets off the simple but often powerful message the text conveys.

Kim Harrison
- Children
- Book
- High
Jazz I regard as an American folk music; not the only one, but a very powerful one which is probably in the blood and feeling of the American people more than any other style of folk music.

George Gershwin
- People
- Music
- American
All-powerful god, who am I but the fear that I inspire in others?

Jean-Paul Sartre
- God
- Fear
- Powerful
I think one of the reasons that we like conspiracy theories is I think that we like to feel like there is a group of people who are so smart and powerful that they can pull the wool over an entire country or in fact even an entire world's eyes. That certainly makes us feel like somehow we're protected, even if it's not in our best interest.

Jason Ritter
- People
- World
- Country