Baker Quotes

#1. The years would not wait for Zealers and saviors, not for chance nor hope. The erratic line would scribble on until Nyra washed away from life itself, her youth stolen forever by the malediction that was wishing.

Kelly Michelle Baker

#2. Are you willing to care enough to get hurt?

Michele McKnight Baker

#3. In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.

Kage Baker

#4. At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some of whom belonged to craft unions, comparatively few went back to the mills. And as a whole, the strike was conducted with little violence.

Ray Stannard Baker

#5. The butcher, baker, and candlestick maker have been around a lot longer than supermarkets and Wal-Mart.

Joel Salatin

#6. To be a mother, after all, was to know the most perfect fullness on earth followed by the most terrible emptiness.

Tiffany Baker

#7. I love my daughter, but she had me on couscous and fixed me pastas and made me eat oatmeal every morning and what else, turkey burgers, turkey bacon, and that kind of stuff. So she wants her dad to live a long time, and I do, too.

Dusty Baker

#8. What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.

George Pierce Baker

#9. I've learned that for many people, change is uncomfortable. Maybe they want to go through it, and they can see the benefit of it, but at a gut level, change is uncomfortable.

Mitchell Baker

#10. You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces.

Suzanne Collins

#11. I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has.

Constance Baker Motley

#12. My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark glasses and head for the next county, hoping nobody notices I've been in the neighborhood.

Russell Baker

#13. Stupidity is the chlorine that cleans out the gene pool.

Scott M. Baker

#14. The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.

Newton D. Baker

#15. If you can't be proud of what you do, go and sell shoes. Do something else.

Simon Baker

#16. I'm going to miss you, girls," he told the plants.
"You have names for them?" croaked Jane.
"This is Beatrice."
"You're not really a people person, are you?"
"Humans piss me off.

Adam Baker

#17. Truth is immortal; error is mortal.

Mary Baker Eddy

#18. Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.

Russell Baker

#19. I want each day to last forever . . . It's a peculiar kind of dissatisfaction, a bittersweet nostalgia for a moment not yet past. Even in the midst of a pleasurable outing I'm aware of how ephemeral it is.

Christina Baker Kline

#20. I'm busy, but I'm also bored." "So,

Nancy Baker

#21. Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.

Russell Baker

#22. I'm not intimidated by anyone. Everyone is made with two arms, two legs, a stomach and a head. Just think about that.

Josephine Baker

#23. Many people, for many reasons, feel rootless - but orphans and abandoned or abused children have particular cause.

Christina Baker Kline

#24. In order to make bread, every baker follows a recipe, even if it's only held in their head.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#25. We must give up all that we are in order to possess all that He is.

Heidi Baker

#26. I've said this so many times but there's a magic when you have a really good actor in a really good makeup.

Rick Baker

#27. The hate directed against the colored people here in St. Louis has always given me a sad feeling because when I was a little girl I remember the horror of the East St. Louis race riot.

Josephine Baker

#28. Every dad, if he takes time out of his busy life to reflect upon his fatherhood, can learn ways to become an even better dad.

Jack Baker

#29. When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea.

Constance Baker Motley

#30. Each successive period of progress is a period more humane and spiritual. The only logical conclusion is that all is Mind and its manifestation, from the rolling of worlds, in the most subtle ether, to a potato-patch.

Mary Baker Eddy

#31. I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on.

Josephine Baker

#32. Mountaineers are one of the few groups to celebrate before the finish line. More mountaineers die on the descent than on the ascent.

Susan Oakey-Baker

#33. They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion.

Ginger Baker

#34. We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. We couldn't do it, butGod did.

Richard Baker

#35. I have been so alone on this journey, cut off from my past. However hard I try, I will always feel alien and strange. And now I've stumbled on a fellow outsider, one who speaks my language without saying a word.

Christina Baker Kline

#36. My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.

Anthony Hopkins

#37. Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.

Mary Baker Eddy

#38. All my life, I have maintained that the people of the world can learn to live together in peace if they are not brought up in prejudice.

Josephine Baker

#39. Is that what they call a vocation, what you do with joy as if you had fire in your heart, the devil in your body?

Josephine Baker

#40. We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.

Constance Baker Motley

#41. Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories
those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost

Russell Baker

#42. The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.

Josephine Baker

#43. Stick-thin, alabaster-pale Etienne LeBlanc runs down the rue de Dinan with Madame Ruelle, the baker's wife, on his heels: the least-robust rescue ever assembled.

Anthony Doerr

#44. There's something about being a woman in a technology space, unless you happen to be model beautiful, where there's always, always talk about what you look like.

Mitchell Baker

#45. Those youngsters go out there and set a record and clinch the pole position. But what do you do if you wreck your car. That record doesn't spend too well.

Buck Baker

#46. I saw the Kino print of 'The Man From Beyond,' but apparently a superior new print has been produced by Restored Serials. Maybe a few snippets of missing footage will close up some of the plot holes, but I have my doubts.

Kage Baker

#47. As a kid I was always a bit of a clown, a performer.

Simon Baker

#48. There was only one road back to L.A. - U.S. Interstate 15. Just a flat-out high speed burn through Baker and Barstow and Berdoo. Then onto the Hollywood Freeway, and straight on into frantic oblivion. Safety. Obscurity.

Hunter S. Thompson

#49. The most surprising thing, honestly, is that so few Americans know about the orphan trains. I was also surprised at the resilience and fortitude of the riders I met, their pragmatism and grace. I don't know whether this is a Midwestern trait or simply a human one.

Christina Baker Kline

#50. There's a better scientific consensus on this than on any issue I know - except maybe Newton's second law of dynamics ... Man has reached the point where his impact on the climate can be as significant as nature's.

D. James Baker

#51. Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.

George Pierce Baker

#52. Just as the people who lived through the Second World War thought different things on different days, I think everybody who goes through that period carefully now thinks different things on different days.

Nicholson Baker

#53. My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.

Constance Baker Motley

#54. Disease is an experience of mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body. Divine Science takes away this physical sense of discord, just as it removes a sense of moral or mental in-harmony.

Mary Baker Eddy

#55. Sex was a pleasurable form of exercise, like dancing.

Josephine Baker

#56. Angels are pure thoughts from God, winged with Truth and Love.

Mary Baker Eddy

#57. We women ought to put first things first. Why should we mind if men have their faces on the money, as long as we get our hands on it?

Ivy Baker Priest

#58. Sometimes people walk into plays by accident - they don't even know what they're looking at; they just think to give it a chance. That can be the beginning of a long friendship.

Dylan Baker

#59. Worldly institutions fail because they require power and gold to operate. Power and gold attract wicked and greedy people. Wicked and greedy people are corrupters and betrayers. Therefore, worldly institutions become corrupt and betrayed ...

Kage Baker

#60. it is not because of the benevolence of the baker that we eat fresh bread every morning but because of his desire to make money.

Raghuram G. Rajan

#61. The best thing about being President is that it gets you out of American life. I don't know what the theory is behind this, but it is a fact. The first thing we do with a President is shunt him off to a siding where nothing American can ever happen to him.

Russell Baker

#62. You can gauge a country's wealth, its real wealth, by its tree cover.

Richard St. Barbe Baker

#63. Grass is the least rewarding of all status symbols ... The grass does nothing but drink money, exhaust energies, crush spirits, destroy sleep, create tensions and interfere with the watching of baseball games, and sprout insolent signs ordering humans to keep off it.

Russell Baker

#64. I did love him. But I did not love him like I loved Dutchy: beyond reason. Maybe you only get one of those in a lifetime, I don't know. But it was all right. It was enough.

Christina Baker Kline

#65. It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble.

Howard Baker

#66. Girls from my graduating class come into the store brandishing solitaire diamonds like Legion of Honor medals, as if they've accomplished something significant - which I guess they think they have, though all I can see is a future of washing some man's clothes stretching ahead of them.

Christina Baker Kline

#67. I did not see myself as a leading lady. I thought I was really funny-looking and I would never be the lead, and I certainly would never do film or television. I wanted to do theater. I wanted to be the grand dame of the American stage.

Kathy Baker

#68. Well, the way I see it, honey, love's love, whatever shape it comes in.

Tiffany Baker

#69. The abundance of fruit comes out of intimacy with the Lord.

Heidi Baker

#70. Maybe the heavens were a kind of celestial grave, I thought, the way the earth is a repository for our flesh, and when we stared at the stars, we were really beholding a million lives twinkling back at us, asking us not to forget.

Tiffany Baker

#71. Often wrong, never in doubt.

Ivy Baker Priest

#72. Ministry, however, is simply loving the person in front of you. It's about stopping for the one and being the very fragrance of Jesus to a lost and dying world.

Heidi Baker

#73. I'm suspicious of full-replacement programs - that is, pronouncements that one way of doing something will entirely supplant another, and that in fact we have to hurry the replacement along.

Nicholson Baker

#74. The poor know they are in need.

Heidi Baker

#75. What she wants most - what she truly yearns for - is what any of us want: to be seen.

Christina Baker Kline

#76. Many good poets are really essayists who write very short essays.

Nicholson Baker

#77. In the year 1866, I discovered the Christ Science or divine laws of Life, Truth, and Love, and named my discovery Christian Science

Mary Baker Eddy

#78. I have never taken more than two weeks to record an album throughout my career.

Ginger Baker

#79. There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience.

George Pierce Baker

#80. I wanted to get far away from those who believed in cruelty, so then I went to France, a land of true freedom, democracy, equality and fraternity.

Josephine Baker

#81. My father had always said there are four things a child needs: plenty of love, nourishing food, regular sleep, and lots of soap and water. After that, what he needs most is some intelligent neglect.

Ivy Baker Priest

#82. Oh my goodness, they are rocking so many variations of my high-top fade. I mean, Rihanna has taken it to a very angular 21st Century thing. Miss Fantasia has it in a very seductive, you know, up-flip, and it's just lovely, right? Oh, I think it's wonderful.

Anita Baker

#83. It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness." ~ Chinese Proverb

Tim Baker

#84. I think of these qualities as metaphorical, you know? So black magic is whatever leads people to the dark side - their own greed or insecurity that makes them do destructive things.

Christina Baker Kline

#85. Successful gardening is doing what has to be done when it has to be done the way it ought to be done whether you want to do it or not.

Jerry Baker

#86. Tough and weird is preferable to pathetic and vulnerable ...

Christina Baker Kline

#87. Upright and do right makes all right.

Christina Baker Kline

#88. Who am I? Or possibly, who AM I? Make it who I WAS, because once I was somebody.

Dorothy Baker

#89. plastic snap-open

Nicholson Baker

#90. Our traditions have been waking up on Christmas morning and feasting on a southern breakfast. I'm from the South. We eat grits and biscuits and gravy and eggs with Ritz crackers and country ham, bacon, you name it.

Leigh-Allyn Baker

#91. You shouldn't ask me whether I like him or not. The way you mean it, I don't suppose I like anybody.

Dorothy Baker

#92. I am very straight-forward and direct. If I disagree with something, I say something about it.

Simon Baker

#93. I'm not a detective from Baker Street or an old lady who solves crimes while she's knitting in an easy chair. I'm just a book girl. So I can't make a deduction, only take a flight of fancy
er, forget I said that. I meant, I can only take a guess.

Mizuki Nomura

#94. The devotion of thought to an honest achievement makes the achievement possible. Exceptions only confirm this rule, proving that failure is occasioned by a too feeble faith.

Mary Baker Eddy

#95. Falling into a black hole would not be pleasant, having your limbs torn asunder and all the while appearing to your friends to be frozen in time just as you fell in

Joanne Baker

#96. The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.

Russell Baker

#97. The muse of music isn't just from Greek mythology, but living in people like the Beatles, Chuck Berry, Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin.

Ernie Isley

#98. CGI has a lot of backlash now. I think it's just because there are so many people doing it. It's a tool and it's only as good as the people behind it.

Rick Baker

#99. Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread.

Ion Tiriac

#100. God told me once, 'I want you to come up to the lowest place.'

Heidi Baker