Demetrie Quotes

#1. When I grew older and awkward, when my parents divorced and life had gone all to hell, Demetrie stood me at the wardrobe mirror and told me over and over, 'You are beautiful. You are smart. You are important.' It was an incredible gift to give a child who thinks nothing of herself.

Kathryn Stockett

#2. When Demetrie got sick, we knew it was our responsibility to take care of her and pay her medical bills. And we embraced that. But the tricky part is, like so many families in the South, we also expected her to use a separate bathroom, to use separate utensils.

Kathryn Stockett

#3. Demetrie came to wait on my grandmother in 1955 and stayed for 32 years. It was common, in Mississippi, to have a black domestic cleaning the kitchen, cooking the meals, looking after the white children.

Kathryn Stockett

#4. But certainly in my grandmother's time - and when I was growing up, yeah, Demetrie's bathroom was on the side of the house, it was a separate door. Still, to this day, I've never been in that room.

Kathryn Stockett

#5. With girls, everything looks great on the surface. But beware of drawers that won't open. They contain a three-month supply of dirty underwear, unwashed hose, and rubber bands with blobs of hair in them.

Erma Bombeck

#6. Unless we do something about the past, she thought, then it will weigh us down to such an extent that we simply cannot move. Is that what I want?

Alexander McCall Smith

#7. America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system.

Henry Louis Gates

#8. Clothes are fun. The designers have so much fun making them, you should have fun wearing them, too.

Rita Ora

#9. A person who is in the elements of his own is often
thrown to a situation to be shown all alone; and people who aren't may
be in a position seen by all, but they are often unknown to be utterly
lone.

Anuj

#10. A man who has faith must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool.

G.K. Chesterton

#11. Reality is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

#12. Commercialism isn't challenging creatively; it's only challenging in a stamina way.

Feist

#13. But then science is nothing but a series of questions that lead to more questions.

Terry Pratchett

#14. It hasn't been a totally smooth road, but in the whole span of things I feel like a very lucky person.

Edward Furlong

#15. There are consequences with age, so you have to evolve. I've loved becoming a filmmaker. But I would love to continue modeling, and there isn't really any job for me. It's being marginalized - that's the sad part.

Isabella Rossellini

#16. Through my work with PETA, I have learned a great deal about chimpanzee behavior and the plight of chimpanzees imprisoned in laboratories.

Woody Harrelson

#17. With all due respect to Taylor Lautner and his 18-pack abs, my werewolf is going to be 100 times cooler!

Michael Trevino