Alice Walker Quotes

It's very hard for our parents who see us enter a world that they can't imagine.

Alice Walker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ParentsWorldHardSeeImagineUs

If you're not hopeful and optimistic, then you just give up. You have to take the long hard look and just believe that if you're consistent, you will succeed.

John Lewis

SucceedBelieveLongYouLookWill

You can't take a play someone has directed and do whatever you want with it.

John Malkovich

SomeoneYouPlayWantWhateverTake

The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

John W. Gardner

LifeExcellenceManSurviveFree

I'm sure, ever since I was really young, that happiness is not a bottle of champagne and a girl and a limousine and a swimming pool.

Stromae

HappinessGirlSwimmingPoolYoung

I am just the most boring person you will ever meet. I'm the good Southern daughter. I'm not outrageous.

Toni Tennille

GoodDaughterI AmYouPersonMeet

I've got high standards when it comes to boys. As my dad says, all girls should! I'm from the South - Tennessee, to be exact - and down there, we're all about southern hospitality. I know that if I like a guy, he better be nice, and above all, my dad has to approve of him!

Miley Cyrus

BetterHospitalityDownBe NiceNice

It's incredibly moving to hear some of our greatest actors performing Shakespeare.

Judi Dench

MovingGreatestPerformingHearSome

The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It's the same ratio that you'll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

MusicWorldYouFindWayDNA

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

Joseph Roux

FoolManBrainyQuotationHandWit

Sugar Ray Leonard was as close as anyone came after Ali to being Ali, but he wasn't Ali.

Dick Schaap

SugarBeingCloseHeRayAfter

I want to do a big donation to the pandas for all the panda lovers out there.

Desiigner

WantDonationOutLoversBig

I love catching a snapshot of something that is just about to happen. Or maybe something that just happened, you know. But I like especially that just-before kind of feeling.

Demetri Martin

LoveYouFeelingKnowKindHappen

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