Dandridge Quotes

#1. Willie Wells, Ray Dandridge, Leon Day, Buck Leonard, Quincy Troupe, Satchel Paige - earlier than when he was called up - Oscar Charleston and Josh Gibson. You see what kind of talent we had, and guys in the majors knew it too.

Monte Irvin

#2. She turned and walked away, pausing only a moment at the door to glance over her shoulder. William wanted to think she was looking at him, but he figured she was probably more interested in his friend. William decided to let it drop. There was no telling what Miss Dandridge might be thinking.

Tracie Peterson

#3. You should have seen Willie Wells play shortstop: as good as Ozzie Smith and a better hitter. How I wish people could have seen Ray Dandridge play third base, as good as Brooks Robinson and Craig Nettles and all of those. He was bowlegged; a train might go through there, but not a baseball.

Monte Irvin

#4. Just to be true to myself, which is why I did this movie. I figured everyone was going to freak out and say, 'Why would you do that after Dorothy Dandridge?' My answer is 'Because I can.' And that feels really good to be comfortable saying that.

Halle Berry

#5. Arianna, hold on! I'm coming!" I yell as I watch the life leave her eyes and she falls to the ground.
"NO!" I scream as my eyes fly open.

Brittany DeLys

#6. I mean, you tell me I got a magic button up my ass that'll make me come my brains out, of course I'm curious. But I'm never gonna go there, because gross.

Amy Jo Cousins

#7. One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance.

Maya Angelou

#8. Normally a prolonged stare from a gorilla is a threat. But Digit's gaze bore no aggression. He seemed to say: I know. Dian would later write that she believed Digit understood she was sick.

Sy Montgomery

#9. Once you tell a lie, you have to keep tellin' and tellin' and tellin' to make it stand.

Cassie Dandridge Selleck

#10. I always wanted to say I came out of the cornfields and got to the major leagues. That was my biggest thought. But now I can say I came out of the cornfields and got to the Hall of Fame.

Ray Dandridge

#11. Sometimes the debt you pay ain't exactly the one you owe, but it works out jus' the same anyway. Lord knows I done caused my share of heartache in this life.

Cassie Dandridge Selleck

#12. It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Jean De La Fontaine

#13. They persistently refused to support either armed party and believed that both sides were but the reflection of one reality, and the true enemies were not people, but ideology, hatred, and ignorance.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#14. To create an Ocean you have to start with the droplets

Alok Jagawat

#15. Part of what I like about the best villains in TV and film is when you feel sorry for them, and that makes you feel even worse for feeling guilty about wanting them to succeed, in some way.

Colin O'Donoghue

#16. I can't play a slave.

Dorothy Dandridge

#17. Your organization will take on the personality of its top leaders

Abraham Lincoln

#18. But, it never dawned on me how wrong it was that I tied her innocence to the fact that she was with me, not who she was, and I am humbled by my ignorance.

Cassie Dandridge Selleck

#19. In the Negro Leagues, we'd play three games a day on the weekends. Then we'd ride the bus and travel to play the next day someplace else. You'd hang your shirt out the bus window to dry.

Ray Dandridge

#20. In African American culture, class bias is the handmaiden of intraracial prejudice that privileges the near-white or light-complexioned person over the darker-hued.

Rita B. Dandridge

#21. Neither despise nor oppose what thou dost not understand.

William Penn

#22. I worked really hard in college, and I came out a completely different person and performer than when I went in. I did the work, and I found a craft.

Merle Dandridge

#23. If you don't have a mountain, build one and then climb it. And after you climb it, build another one; otherwise you start to flatline in your life.

Sylvester Stallone

#24. There exists a righteous unity between the temple and the home. Understanding the eternal nature of the temple will draw you to your family; understanding the eternal nature of the family will draw you to the temple.

Gary E. Stevenson

#25. It [prejudice] is such a waste. It makes you logy and half-alive. It gives you nothing. It takes away.

Dorothy Dandridge

#26. Once a lie is told, you have to keep on telling it. You not only have to repeat it time and time again, you have to embellish it, layer upon layer until you don't even remember the truth.

Cassie Dandridge Selleck

#27. The quality of beauty lies on
how beholder values an object.

Toba Beta

#28. There is no longer any anonymity on the Web - unless we mandate it. The most personal information about your online habits is collected, bought and sold, often instantaneously and invisibly. Data collection is a business driven by profits at consumers' expense.

Jackie Speier

#29. I'm just a poor boy from the cornfields of Richmond, Virginia. I'm proud because I loved baseball and played with the best.

Ray Dandridge

#30. It was a vow we made those long years ago. Neither of us spoke of it afterwards, but it hung between us like a spider web, fragile and easy to break, but danged hard to get shed of once the threads took hold.

Cassie Dandridge Selleck

#31. The older I get, the less I care what people think of me, but I care a great deal about people knowing my business.

Cassie Dandridge Selleck

#32. I like to stretch myself and push the envelope, so anything that's new or different or not of my daily routine, I am so for.

Merle Dandridge

#33. Cease, rude Boreas, blustering railer! List, ye landsmen all, to me; Messmates, hear a brother sailor Sing the dangers of the sea.

George Alex Stevens

#34. If I were white, I could capture the world.

Dorothy Dandridge