Celie The Color Purple Book Quotes & Sayings

I think he won a tiny piece of my heart that day. If he didn't have the whole damn thing before then, he certainly had part of it now. — N.R. Walker

I have seen things in my life that have broken me in spirit. — Cory Booker

Do not put your work off till to-morrow and the day after; for a sluggish worker does not fill his barn, nor one who puts off his work: industry makes work go well, but a man who puts off work is always at hand-grips with ruin. — Hesiod

For a while I didn't want to look at the men and their hawks any more and my eyes slipped to the white panels of cut light in the branches behind them. Then I walked to the hedge where the hawk had made her kill. Peered inside. Deep in the muddled darkness six copper pheasant feathers glowed in a cradle of blackthorn. Reaching through the thorns I picked them free, one by one, tucked the hand that held them into my pocket, and cupped the feathers in my closed fist as if I were holding a moment tight inside itself. It was death I had seen. — Helen Macdonald

They, our parents, lived through a great catastrophe, and we needed to live through it, too. Otherwise we'd never become real people. That's how we're made. If we just work each day and eat well - that would be strange and intolerable! We — Svetlana Alexievich

Since I am used to speaking in public, I know that it is useless. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Often for me, if I hear a song I know, it clicks for me and I hear it in a different way and I think, I could sing that song. I've got something to say about that song. Wanting to connect with an audience and wanting them to rethink songs; it is actually important to do songs they're familiar with. Also, I love those songs. In a way, I think I've changed people's perceptions of what a cabaret show like this could be. — Alan Cumming

A course never quite looks the same way twice. The combinations of weather, season, light, feelings and thoughts that you find there are ever-changing. — Joe Henderson

I'm the kind of bastard they only manufacture in the barrel. — Leigh Bardugo

Love makes you feel out of control. I think that's how you know it's right. — Jillian Dodd

I've learned that 'love' is used a lot in the States for everything: 'I love that burger,' 'I love my shoes,' 'I love a friend.' To me, if it's overused, it loses meaning. — Juan Pablo Galavis

The best listeners listen between the lines. — Nina Malkin

Pundits talk about 'populist rage' as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class. — Elizabeth Warren

I care about you as people, and I believe you are capable of great things. Each of you will contribute something to this world. You are important. You would be missed. — Cindy L. Rodriguez

How do you know you were in samadhi? You know when your awareness returns to the plane of self and ideation that you have been beyond it. — Frederick Lenz