Alice Walker Quotes

I used to meditate all the time in bed. That was when I was raising my daughter, and I'd get her up and off to school, and then I would go back to bed and meditate. And then I would do the same in the evening, and that was very good for that period because I had so many things to juggle as a single mother.

Alice Walker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 9, 1944

Topics

GoodMotherDaughterTimeSchoolGo

You can't be impatient about growth, because that's what leads people to make mistakes.

Jerry Della Femina

GrowthMistakesPeopleYouBecause

Obama hates selling. He thinks people should just accept the right thing to do.

Maureen Dowd

PeopleSellingAcceptRightJustHe

I'm far from being a consummate artist. I mean, this is just my first album, and the work is very new. I'm just beginning, and I'm certainly not worthy of demigod status. There's absolutely no danger of me reaching that.

Jeff Buckley

WorkBeginningMeArtistNewMean

People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance.' We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations.

Studs Terkel

HealthPeopleWorldInsuranceWealth

We were always surrounded by people who knew us very well and cared about us.

Mary-Kate Olsen

PeopleAlwaysSurroundedUsWell

I want to be calm.

Courteney Cox

CalmWant

Anytime an African-American writes an unconventional novel, the writer gets compared to Ellison. But that's O.K. I am working in the African-American literary tradition. That's my aim and what I see as my mission.

Colson Whitehead

I AmTraditionMissionAimSee

It's a dumb question, because I don't look at things as a black director, just as a director, so ask me as a director first and we can segue into the colour thing later.

Antoine Fuqua

MeBlackLookDumbQuestionFirst

In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.

William Gilbert

OpinionsStrongerDiscoveryHidden

I'd been waiting to turn thirty my whole life. For some reason, when I was eleven, I was like, 'I know thirty's going to be good. Get through those twenties!'

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

LifeGoodWaitingKnowThirtyTurn

In youth, the days are short and the years are long. In old age, the years are short and days long.

Pope Paul VI

AgeOld AgeYouthShortLongOld

I would love to work with PJ Harvey some day.

Sharon Van Etten

WorkLoveDayWouldSomeHarvey

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