Delany Sisters Having Our Say Quotes

#1. I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to cry or whatever, I listen to sonatas. Vivaldi and stuff. It's just beautiful to me.

Diane Kruger

#2. The most unfortunate thing that happens to a person who fears failure is that he limits himself by becoming afraid to try anything new.

Leo Buscaglia

#3. The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich.

William Julius Wilson

#4. Their story, as the Delany sisters like to say, is not meant as "black" or "women's" history, but American history. It belongs to all of us. (From the Preface of "Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years)

Amy Hill Hearth

#5. To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it to your bosom with all your strength; that's the greatest human happiness.

Jean Giraudoux

#6. Life is short, and it's up to you to make it sweet.
Sarah L. (Sadie) Delany

Amy Hill Hearth

#7. A lot of the time in animation is spent getting the story right - that's something you can't rush.

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

#8. For our goal was not only the East, or rather the East was not only a country and something geographical, but it was the home and youth of the soul, it was everywhere and nowhere, it was the union of all times.

Hermann Hesse

#9. Said the condor to the preying mantis, we're gonna lose this place just like we lost Atlantis.

Neil Young

#10. When people ask me how we've lived past one hundred, I say, 'Honey, we never married. We never had husbands to worry us to death!
A. Elizabeth (Bessie) Delany

Amy Hill Hearth

#11. To Jurgis the packers had been the equivalent to fate; Ostrinski showed him that they were the Beef Trust. They were a gigantic combination of capital, which had crushed all opposition, and overthrown the laws of the land, and was preying upon the people. Chapter 29, pg. 376

Upton Sinclair

#12. The government is one thing and the country of Cuba and my people are something different completely, .. It's like the United States government and your country. You don't have to agree with the policies to be proud of your country.

Jose Contreras

#13. It is the creators of the harami (bastards) who are culpable, not the harami, whose only sin is being born.

Khaled Hosseini

#14. Every human being is in need of talking to somebody. In this country nobody has time. It seems that talking to a friend has gone out of style. Now you have to pay money to go to an analyst.

Marlene Dietrich

#15. The potential success that could come with signing with a major label didn't quite outweigh how important it was for me to make my music the way I knew it needed to be made.

Kina Grannis