Althea's Quotes

#1. Why had Althea's crazed words affected Etta like this? Then the answer came to him: she was pregnant. Women always behaved strangely when they were pregnant.

Robin Hobb

#2. Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown.

Althea Gibson

#3. I got my dailies every day, although I couldn't always look at them because I was usually preparing for the next day's shoot, both as an actress and as the director.

Debbie Allen

#4. If you think you're too far from Allah to return, and your 'past' continues to own you, just remember that Malik ibn Dinar (RA) was an alcoholic, and Omar (RA) was on his way to assassinate the Prophet (pbuh) before they became two of the greatest souls to walk the earth!

Yasmin Mogahed

#5. The truth hurts, sometimes, I suppose. But that doesn't mean it shouldn't be known.

Trisha Leigh

#6. Some of the most powerful antiseptic essential oils include lavender oil, tea tree oil, and clove oil.

Althea Press

#7. I hope that I have accomplished just one thing: that I have been a credit to tennis and my country.

Althea Gibson

#8. Cassie's first thought when she saw the old woman was, What a marvelous thing plastic surgery is. The woman was younger than Althea, but looked fifty years older

Jude Deveraux

#9. You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process.

Cynthia Weil

#10. From 143rd Street in Harlem to the center court at Wimbledon is about as far as one can travel.

Althea Gibson

#11. What good does it do you to love?

Trisha Leigh

#12. We set off walking backwards, thumbs out, trying to hitchhike to the postoperative breast augmentation appointment, perhaps a first in the state of Iowa.

Ann Patchett

#13. Althea was certain that they were both boys, because they were both so fierce and strong-willed, even while inside the womb.

Emigh Cannaday

#14. There's no need to make a big deal out of it," said Milo, but Glen was already moving towards the front door.
"I need to walk," he said. "I need to... I need to be free!"
And then he was gone, the door swinging closed behind him.
"What a dramatic young man," said Althea.

Derek Landy

#15. Work hard and figure out how to be useful and don't try to imitate anybody else's success. Figure out how to do it for yourself with yourself.

Harrison Ford

#16. I was nervous and confident at the same, nervous about going out there in front of all those people, with so much at stake, and confident that I was going to go out there and win.

Althea Gibson

#17. A moment of panic washed over her. There was so little time, it might even now be too late to shape them. Look at her own daughters. Keffria, who only wanted someone to tell her what to do, and Althea, who only desired that she do her own will always."
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Robin Hobb

#18. In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best.

Althea Gibson

#19. The loser is always a part of the problem; the winner is always a part of the answer. The loser always has an excuse; the winner always has a program. The loser says it may be possible, but it's difficult; the winner says it may be difficult, but it's possible.

Althea Gibson

#20. In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.

Althea Gibson

#21. I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me.

Althea Gibson

#22. Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to stay tops.

Althea Gibson

#23. You know your duty and you are doing it. It isn't your fault if Althea can't appreciate that.

Robin Hobb

#24. Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into downtown Wilmington, North Carolina.

Althea Gibson

#25. No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.

Althea Gibson

#26. She is, Althea thought uneasily, what I pretend to be: a woman who does not let her sex deter her from living as she pleases.

Robin Hobb

#27. Love turned everybody's brain sideways, just like a stunner.

J.D. Robb

#28. I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I just want to be reasonably successful and live a normal life with all the conveniences to make it so.

Althea Gibson

#29. She could get lost staring into the kaleidoscope of unfathomable lifetimes swirling in a human iris. They were haunting and sober and wise, even when she coaxed a jaw-cracking sunny smile from the face they were set in.

Taoist Elf

#30. Be now what you must be to succeed at the end of your journey, and when the end comes, you will find it is just another beginning.' Althea

Robin Hobb

#31. I don't consciously beat the drums for any cause, not even the negro in the United States.

Althea Gibson

#32. It seemed almost inconceivable that in his short marriage to Althea she had, in her quiet way, left him feeling not only worthy, but exceptional, a man not only capable of being a real poet, but a husband and father too.

Andre Dubus III

#33. Winning once can be a fluke; winning twice proves you are the best.

Althea Gibson

#34. When the mainstay of one's world is taken away, it's only natural to cling to all the rest, to try desperately to keep things as close to the way they were as one can." He shook his head sorrowfully. "But no one can ever go back to yesterday.

Robin Hobb

#35. I don't write poetry for the page because my inclination in that area is satisfied by songwriting. "Ornamental Hermit" was a comparatively effortless song to write, which is rare for me.

David Grubbs

#36. I think I've already got the main thing I've always wanted, which is to be somebody, to have an identify. I'm Althea Gibson, the tennis champion. I hope it makes me happy.

Althea Gibson