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:

Kathryn Stockett Quotes

That white uniform was her 'pass' to get into white places with us - the grocery store, the state fair, the movies. Even though this was the 70s and the segregation laws had changed, the 'rules' had not.

Kathryn Stockett

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

J. K. Rowling quote: "Well — I was lucky once, wasn't I?” said Harry, pointing at..."
Well — I was lucky once, wasn't I?” said Harry, pointing at his scar. “I might get lucky again. J. K. Rowling
Zig Ziglar quote: "Chance made us sisters. Hearts made us friends."
Chance made us sisters. Hearts made us friends. Zig Ziglar
Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind. Rockwell Kent
It is all about being open and paying attention to the music in your head. I think most people have original music playing in their heads from time to time. Tommy Shaw
Perhaps my bad temper or my jealousy are gradually getting worse - so gradually that the increase in seventy years will not be very noticeable. But it might be absolute hell in a million years! C. S. Lewis
James Cash Penney quote: "Selling is our No. 1 job. Never get away from selling a lot of..."
Selling is our No. 1 job. Never get away from selling a lot of merchandise personally. The more you sell the more you learn. James Cash Penney
Ludwig Wittgenstein quote: "A serious and good philosophical work could be written..."
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Julia Sweeney quote: "I'm not a standup. I don't really have jokes. I don't have 10..."
I'm not a standup. I don't really have jokes. I don't have 10 minutes. It took a while for me to realize this. Julia Sweeney
Claire Forlani quote: "I've just got a new house in Pacific Palisades. It's really cute."
I've just got a new house in Pacific Palisades. It's really cute. Claire Forlani
For every bourgeois, in the heat of youth, if only for a day, for a minute, has believed himself capable of immense passions, of heroic enterprises. The most mediocre libertine has dreamed of oriental princesses; every rotary carries about inside him the debris of a poet. Gustave Flaubert
Carl Sandburg quote: "Enough small empty boxes thrown into a big empty box fill it..."
Enough small empty boxes thrown into a big empty box fill it full. Carl Sandburg
Vaughn Monroe quote: "It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate..."
It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father. Vaughn Monroe
I was just ice skating. I had no concept of that. In those days you couldn't see the judges. I was this little person on the ice and they were just people that would stand around the boards. Dorothy Hamill
You might hold an ethical position that it's wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons - to reduce casualties, perhaps - and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a 'good' outcome. Peter Singer
J. K. Rowling quote: "Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't..."
Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain. J. K. Rowling