English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Anna Quindlen Quotes

Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.

Anna Quindlen

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

I believe that filmmaking - as, probably, is everything - is a game you should play with all your cards, and all your dice, and whatever else you've got. So, each time I make a movie, I give it everything I have. I think everyone should, and I think everyone should do everything they do that way. Francis Ford Coppola
Rosabeth Moss Kanter quote: "Cheap labor is not going to be the way we compete in the..."
Cheap labor is not going to be the way we compete in the United States. It's going to be brain power. Rosabeth Moss Kanter
The Heart is the Capital of the Mind— The Mind is a single State— The Heart and the Mind together make A single Continent— One—is the Population— Numerous enough— This ecstatic Nation Seek—it is Yourself. Emily Dickinson
We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door. Djuna Barnes
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach quote: "So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date."
So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Paul Wellstone quote: "The future will belong to those who have passion and are..."
The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better. Paul Wellstone
Towards the end of your life you have something like a pain schedule to fill out—a long schedule like a federal document, only it's your pain schedule. Endless categories. First, physical causes—like arthritis, gallstones, menstrual cramps. New category, injured vanity, betrayal, swindle, injustice. But the hardest items of all have to do with love. The question then is: So why does everybody persist? If love cuts them up so much.... Saul Bellow
George Eliot quote: "Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were..."
Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence. George Eliot
Mother Teresa quote: "Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most..."
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible. Mother Teresa
Why you like this, huh? Why you always think you have to do things your own way? I ast your mama bout it one time, while you was in jail. What she say? ast Sofia. She say you think your way as good as anybody else's. Plus, it yours. Sofia laugh. Alice Walker
Simone Weil quote: "The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same..."
The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through. Simone Weil
Caroline Nichols Churchill quote: "The master class seldom lose a chance to insult a woman who..."
The master class seldom lose a chance to insult a woman who has the ability for something besides service to his lordship. Caroline Nichols Churchill
I guess my idea of a good audience is one that's quiet and listens, but also that's alive: they respond, they're getting the jokes, they're with me. And that' s been happening. Dan Hicks
I grew up in a house where my father encouraged my brother and me to fail. I specifically remember coming home and saying, 'Dad, Dad, I tried out for this or that and I was horrible,' and he would high-five me and say, 'Way to go.' Sara Blakely
When I started modeling, I was definitely heavier. I was quite voluptuous in fact. I had a real baby face and baby fat. But I was a baby! I was told I had to get into better shape, but I'm quite stubborn so I didn't. Rosie Huntington-Whiteley