Nikki Grimes Quotes

I spent many hours ensconced in the local library, reading - nay, devouring - book after book after book. Books were my soul's delight.

Nikki Grimes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 20, 1950

Topics

SoulBookReadingLibraryDelight

We had a teacher in school who would organize dramatic shows. And she decided to put on a show about - I don't know whether you remember - 'Ferdinand the Bull', the comic script. However, she decided, you're going to sing Ferdinand, me, as a role.

Jimmy Scott

TeacherSchoolMeRememberYouKnow

We all have excuses. We could all take all of the things that have happened to us over the course of our lives and use them as excuses for being cruel to others.

Max Joseph

ExcusesOthersOverCruelTakeUs

If I could walk into the 'Friends' audition again and go or not go, I have to say it's 50-50.

Matthew Perry

WalkFriendsGoSayIf I Could

I always wanted to do films. I'd gone to New York early in 1976 and did a lot of theater, but I really wanted to chase the paths of people like Pacino and Lemmon and those guys. Alan Arkin. Film was where I wanted to go.

Jeff Daniels

New YorkPeoplePathsEarlyGoNew

There's been a sea change in our focus on corporate ethics. We've made more progress in the last three years than the previous 30.

Steve Odland

ChangeSeaFocusProgressEthics

There are certain ways of being that people don't find acceptable or very pleasant in regular life, but you go out on stage and do pretty much the same thing and they find it spellbinding.

Michael Shannon

LifePeopleYouFindGoStage

Everyone is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another.

Jasper Johns

WorkFreeThinkPictureSeeingWay

Both Jewish and Roman sources and traditions admit an empty tomb.

Josh McDowell

AdmitJewishEmptyTraditionsRoman

I felt like a sinful person when I dated men and allowed them to feel for me in a way I knew I could never naturally feel for them. That felt wrong and a lie.

Chely Wright

MenLieMeFeelWrongPerson

Starbucks says they are going to start putting religious quotes on cups. The very first one will say, 'Jesus! This cup is expensive!'

Conan O'Brien

StartSayStarbucksWillFirstCup

I don't know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

Bob Marley

GoodLiveKnowSufferOnlyHow

The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.

Audre Lorde

JoyBridgeUnderstandingIntellectual

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Nikki Grimes