Top 100 Horne Quotes
#1. People like Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Marlene Dietrich and Sammy Davis Jr. all walked me down this path of entertainment.
Dionne Warwick
#2. The receptionist at Horne, Buckman and Pierce, a classic battle-ax who was comfortably past her prime, eyed Loren as if she'd recognized her from a sex offender poster. Full frown in place, the battle-ax told her to sit. Randal
Harlan Coben
#3. I think my most favorite subject was Lena Horne because she embodies soul and grace and elegance and street. She embodies everything and beauty, great beauty, so she was a favorite subject.
Carol Friedman
#4. Every film by Will Smith, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Lena Horne, Ruby Dee, Don Cheadle will have great acting and carry good messages in the film. The films starring those actors are the films I tell young people to watch for good acting and to view for quality movies.
Brian J. White
#5. I went to a lot of theatre. My parents were very involved with the performing arts. I went to nightclub shows when I was a little girl. We went to Florida and we would go to the Cocoanut Grove down there. We'd go see Lena Horne, Jimmy Durante, Sophie Tucker and Judy Garland.
Lainie Kazan
#6. I want to play Lena Horne because I've always been fascinated with her. Her talent was astounding and more than that, her life story is incredible.
Naya Rivera
#7. They've offered me every variation on Audrey Horne, none of which were as good or as much fun.
Sherilyn Fenn
#8. Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly ... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator.
Erica Jong
#9. Ere the horne'd owl hoot
Once and twice and thrice there shall
Go among the blind brown worms
News of thy great burial;
When the pomp is passed away,
'Here's a King,' the worms shall say.
Adelaide Crapsey
#10. The sun has set," said Horne Fisher, in the same terrible tones, "and he will never see it rise again.
G.K. Chesterton
#11. I look at the careers of people I'm standing on the shoulders of. People like Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr., and Sarah Vaughan. These are icons I wanted to emulate, and I feel like they've been holding me up for quite a long time.
Dionne Warwick
#12. It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at a time of my life when I was very happy., and that happiness overflowed into the scripts.
Barry Took
#13. Lena Horne is the sweetest and most adorable woman in the world.
Alvin Ailey
#14. She was a tall, seedy, sad-eyed blonde who had once been a policewoman and had lost her job when she married a cheap little check bouncer named Johnny Horne, to reform him. She hadn't reformed him, but she was waiting for him to come out so she could try again.
Raymond Chandler
#15. I was a 12 year old kid in Northern Idaho listening to Billie Holiday and Lena Horne and Sarah Vaughan and Nat King Cole. This whole genre of music is a part of who I am.
Cheyenne Jackson
#16. I wish you always the joyous summer you deserve and blame you not for fleeing the stark winter you saw in me.
-Stanton Horne, Lord Wyndham (in his letter to Lady Alicia)
Celeste Bradley
#17. I returned to my rooms, enraged and no further forward. Yesterday, I had believed that Denis murdered Horne, but after meeting him, I changed my conclusion.
Ashley Gardner
#19. There wouldn't be a Halle Berry or an Angela Bassett or a Cicely Tyson if there hadn't been a Lena Horne.
Dee Dee Bridgewater
#20. My introduction of Whitney was that if there's going to be one performer for the next generation who combined the beauty and lyric phrasing of a Lena Horne with those Gospel fiery roots of an Aretha Franklin, it would be Whitney Houston.
Clive Davis
#21. I know too much," said Horne Fisher, "and all the wrong things.
G.K. Chesterton
#22. It's not the weight of the load, but how you carry it.
~Lena Horne~
Trenice Carter
#23. Twin Peaks was my religion. Well, Twin Peaks and Christianity. But at present, Twin Peaks was winning. I loved God, but at the moment I was more obsessed with Bob and Dale Cooper and Audrey Horne.
Moby
#24. When I grew up, you wanted to look like Marlene Dietrich, Betty Grable. Fortunately, I didn't know that I really wanted to look like Lena Horne. When I grew up ... black stars were stigmatized. Nobody wanted to look like Lena Horne.
Dorian Corey
#26. In the heraldry of heaven goodness precedes greatness; so on earth it is more powerful. The lowly and the lovely may frequently do more in their own limited sphere than the gifted.
Thomas Hartwell Horne
#27. There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the television set.
Harriet Van Horne
#28. We're sending you best wishes
And hope your day goes well
And that you'll find some memories
With stories you can tell
Of how you had a marvelous time
And those around you too
With fun and lots of laughter
And all this just for you..
Have a Very Happy Birthday
Janet Horne
#29. Civility is a charm that attracts the love of all men.
George Horne
#30. You have to be taught to be secondclass;your not born that way
Lena Horne
#31. I made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people.
Lena Horne
#32. Ninety percent of what's wrong with singers today is that they don't breathe right.
Marilyn Horne
#33. Count Basie isn't just a man, or even just a band. He's a way of life.
Lena Horne
#34. She saw why teachers get very old and stay very young. For there is no closer probing of the mind--not even in psychoanalysis.
John Horne Burns
#35. And once again we wish you All joyous things and more A day that's filled with happiness And memories to store.
Janet Horne
#36. There are more speculators about New Westminster and Victoria than there were in Winnipeg during the boom and they are a much sharper lot. Nearly every person is more or less interested and you will have to be on your guard against all of them.
William Cornelius Van Horne
#37. My real achievement is my daughter and my three beautiful grandchildren.
Marilyn Horne
#38. I think I'm making a difference for a lot of young singers.
Marilyn Horne
#39. I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody.
Lena Horne
#40. At three o'clock this afternoon Evelyn Wastneys died. I am Evelyn Wastneys, and I died, standing at the door of an old country home in Ireland...
Mrs. George De Horne Vaizey
#41. The follies, vices, and consequent miseries of multitudes, displayed in a newspaper, are so many admonitions and warnings, so many beacons, continually burning, to turn others from the rocks on which they have been shipwrecked.
Thomas Hartwell Horne
#42. In my early days I was a sepia Hedy Lamarr. Now I'm black and a woman, singing my own way.
Lena Horne
#43. Music became my refuge and then my salvation.
Lena Horne
#45. To reject wisdom because the person communicates it is uncouth and his manners are inelegant, what is it but to throw away a pine-apple, and assign for a reason the roughness of its coat?
Thomas Hartwell Horne
#46. It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
Lena Horne
#47. I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else.
Lena Horne
#48. Prosperity too often has the same effect on a Christian that a calm at sea has on a Dutch mariner; who frequently, it is said, in those circumstances, ties up the rudder, gets drunk, and goes to sleep.
William Cornelius Van Horne
#49. I was lucky, as many of my generation was, in having a man like Dr. King in our lives. He came at a time that we needed to take a long look at each other and see how similar we were.
Lena Horne
#51. The naked female body is treated so weirdly in society. It's like people are constantly begging to see it, but once they do, someone's a hoe.
Lena Horne
#52. The best thing about living ... Is the chance to keep on doing it!
Lena Horne
#53. [T]he important thing was that each Saturday they must win games and put The Academy on the sporting pages. For that, after all, was the final index to the rating of an American school.
John Horne Burns
#54. I learned from Ethel Waters, Duke Ellington, Adelaide Hall, the Nicholas Brothers, the whole thing, the whole schmear. [The Cotton Club] was a great place because it hired us, for one thing, at a time when it was really rough [for Black performers].
Lena Horne
#55. A man who went to the 'footie' match on Saturday afternoon and played eighteen holes of golf was really doing his duty by the nation.
Donald Horne
#56. I'm still learning, you know. At 80, I feel there is a lot I don't know.
Lena Horne
#57. Neither parenting, Christian education, heritage, nor fine church involvement can alter anyone's essential sin nature. To lie, make self-centered choices, be destructive, or be deeply hurtful to oneself or others may be "out of character," but it is not outside of any human being's nature.
Rick Horne
#58. for what is the good of going away and having adventures if we cannot talk about them when we come home
Mrs. George De Horne Vaizey
#59. As much as I try, when I open my mouth, Lena comes out, And I get so mad.
Lena Horne
#60. With sport went beer drinking and gambling - until recently restricted by the wowsers, but part of that code of mateship of men, that necessity constantly to demonstrate masculine sameness, which provided one of the most flattening sources of uniformity.
Donald Horne
#61. Malcolm X made me very strong at a time I needed to understand what I was angry about. He had peace in his heart. He exerted a big influence on me.
Lena Horne
#62. Then when you think in years to come Of Birthdays long ago You may remember fondly How much we love you so.
Janet Horne
#63. He looked up at me and taught me a lesson in about one second of silence. It didn't make a damn bit of difference who was doing the standing and who was doing the sitting. He was towering over me, his dark eyes letting me know that he was in charge. That he had all the power.
Misha Horne
#64. No cloud can overshadow a true Christian but his faith will discern a rainbow in it.
Thomas Hartwell Horne
#66. It's ill-becoming for an old broad to sing about how bad she wants it. But occasionally we do.
Lena Horne
#67. Always be smarter than the people who hire you.
Lena Horne
#68. Ye rigid Ploughman! bear in mind Your labor is for future hours. Advance! spare not! nor look behind! Plough deep and straight with all your powers!
Richard Henry Horne
#69. One who roams the channels after dark, searching for buried treasure.
Harriet Van Horne
#70. Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
Harriet Van Horne
#71. I was unique in that I was a kind of black that white people could accept. I was their daydream. I had the worst kind of acceptance because it was never for how great I was or what I contributed. It was because of the way I looked.
Lena Horne
#72. The war had made him into a lone wolf, an introverted arrow that shot silent and solitary to his target for the moment. He'd become an opportunist of sensation and aesthetic.
John Horne Burns
#73. He who seldom thinks of heaven is not likely to get thither; as the only way to hit the mark is to keep the eye fixed upon it.
Thomas Hartwell Horne
#74. After I got over the terrible pain of having something of mine taken from me, I began to think how bad everybody else must be feeling. It wasn't a nice time.
Lena Horne
#76. I told them I belong to the same organizations and clubs Mrs. Roosevelt belongs to, but with a few brave exceptions, I was still unable to do films or television for the next seven years.
Lena Horne
#77. I disconnected myself to shield myself from people who would sway to my songs in the club and call me 'nigger' in the street. They were too busy seeing their own preconceived image of a Negro woman. the image that I chose to give them was of a woman who they could not reach and therefore can't hurt.
Lena Horne
#78. You have to know exactly what you want out of your career. If you want to be a star, you don't bother with other things.
Marilyn Horne
#79. I remember the day tDr. King died. I wasn't angry at the beginning. It was like something very personal in my life had been touched and finished.
Lena Horne
#81. It may be that only when xenophobia stops working as an election winner will the way be cleared for a return to bipartisanship
Donald Horne
#82. Meditation is that exercise of the mind by which it recalls a known truth, as some kind of creatures do their food, to be ruminated upon till all the valuable parts be extracted.
George Horne
#83. I found out along the way that they like you a little imperfect.
Lena Horne
#84. Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.
Lena Horne
#85. People say time is the only thing that can heal a broken heart, but I don't know if that's true. I think sometimes a heart just stays broken.
Paige P. Horne
#86. Wit, without wisdom, is salt without meat; and that is but a comfortless dish to set a hungry man down to.
George Horne
#87. It does not seem a year Since last we sent to you Our wishes for your special day And all that you would do.
Janet Horne
#88. I want to sing like Aretha Franklin. Before her I wanted the technical ability of Ella Fitzgerald.
Lena Horne
#89. The external part of religion is doubtless of little value in comparison with the internal, and so is the cask in comparison with the wine contained in it: but if the cask be staved in, the wine must perish.
Thomas Hartwell Horne
#90. I want to end the human race. But not because I don't like it. I just have a better idea.
Marc Horne
#91. On me, on me Time and change can heap no more! The painful past with blighting grief Hath left my heart a withered leaf. Time and change can do no more.
Richard Henry Horne
#92. Riches, honors and pleasure are the sweets which destroy the mind's appetite for heavenly food; poverty, disgrace and pain are the bitters which restore it.
George Horne
#93. Cheerfulness is the daughter of employment; and I have known a man come home in high spirits from a funeral, merely because he has had the management of it.
William Cornelius Van Horne
#94. I must absorb everything while I'm still singing and step onto the stages of my many homes, and look out at the familiar surroundings, at the people who have come to hear me, to hear music.
Marilyn Horne
#95. Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer.
Marilyn Horne
#97. Whenever you think that you are getting too big for the people around you, remember all that separates you from the guy sitting next to you is a little piece of gristle in your throat.
Marilyn Horne
#98. ...the first move to a more tolerant Australia must come from controlling the aversion to Muslims that is at present the principal xenophobia in this country.
Donald Horne
#99. Malcolm X raised my consciousness about myself and my people and other people more than any person I know. I knew him before he became Malcolm X.
Lena Horne
#100. Nobody black or white who really believes in democracy can stand aside now; everybody's got to stand up and be counted.
Lena Horne
