Lawdy Quotes

#1. Inspired by Alex Haley's 'Roots,' at the age of 11 I began a handwritten Middle Passage story called 'Lawdy, Lawdy, Make Us Free.' I was raised by civil rights activists with a very strong sense of racial history and consciousness.

Tananarive Due

#2. Lawdy Mama, those Friday nights when Suzy wore her dresses down tight.

Elton John

#3. Rock and roll hoochie koo, lawdy mama, light my fuse.

Rick Derringer

#4. Things happen for reasons that are hidden from us, utterly hidden for us as long as we think they must proceed from what has come before, our guilt or our deserving, rather than coming to us from a future that God in his freedom offers to us.

Marilynne Robinson

#5. I've actually heard people protesting furiously about straight male costume people as well. It's not universal and there are examples that break the mould all over the place. In my experience, it's more prevalent in the UK than in America.

Colin Firth

#6. The Enneagram is not a system of personality, as it is so often presented, but rather a definition of character fixation. The same character fixation can manifest across a full range of personalities. Jack Nicholson and Slobodan Milosevic have the same character fixation but different personalities.

Eli Jaxon-Bear

#7. We were making our own history every day, trying to make it count.

Katie Delahanty

#8. What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

Wayne W. Dyer

#9. It didn't matter what you look like. You don't have to get up at 5:30 in the morning and there's a lot to be said for that. Corpse Bride can just play all my parts from now on and I'll just do the voice.

Helena Bonham Carter

#10. Invariably, it is this for which I write: the joy ... of an argument firmly made, like a nail straightly driven, its head flush to the plank.

George Will

#11. If we continue to make moral judgements (and whatever we say shall in fact continue) then we must believe that the conscience of man is not a product of nature.

C.S. Lewis