Nettie's Quotes

#1. Divination is a mirror, reflecting what is here and here," Kezia would tell her, pointing to Nettie's heart and head. Nettie nodded like a solemn student.

"Whatever the cards show you, always trust the words that well inside you. The truth is waiting to be heard. Never doubt it.

Gwendolyn Womack

#2. But what was good tween us must have been nothing but bodies, she say. Cause I don't know the Albert that don't dance, can't hardly laugh, never talk bout nothing, beat you and hid your sister Nettie's letters. Who he?

Alice Walker

#3. The sun only moves about 1 degree every four minutes and that is usually long enough to bring your tinder up to ignition temperature.

David Aman

#4. There is no right or wrong; only our thoughts and perceptions make it so.

Debasish Mridha

#5. People fear monsters. Monsters fear the Cannibal Owl." Nettie

Lila Bowen

#6. Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a couple years back by the wife of our President: Just say no.

Kurt Vonnegut

#7. I wanted to be on Broadway, but in musical comedy.

Carol Burnett

#8. Dear Nettie, I don't write to God no more, I write to you.

Alice Walker

#9. Toodles looked so thunderstruck that the Assistant Commissioner smiled faintly.

Joseph Conrad

#10. If it wasn't for the elderly we wouldn't be were we are today.

Nettie Febus

#11. And I don't believe you dead. How can you be dead if I still feel you? Maybe, like God, you changed into something different that I'll have to speak to in a different way, but you not dead to me Nettie. And never will you be.

Alice Walker

#12. You got to fight them, Celie, she say. I can't do it for you.
You got to fight them for yourself.
I don't say nothing. I think bout Nettie, dead. She fight, she run away. What good it do? I don't fight, I stay where I'm told. But I'm alive.

Alice Walker

#13. Therefore the first and most essential attribute required to see and use the opportunities is humility and turning away from our "ego.

Sunday Adelaja

#14. Today, Mr. Darcy is a vampire.

Orson Scott Card

#15. Since religion was so much a part of my life as a child, and since my childhood was so happy and so full of laughter and joy, I associate the two. Even my concept of Jesus goes along with this association of happiness and religion.

Minnie Pearl

#16. Francis Crawford's face in this fleeting moment of privacy was filled with ungovernable feeling: of shock and of pain and of a desire beyond bearing: the desire of the hart which longs for the waterbrook, and does not know, until it sees the pool under the trees, for what it has thirsted.

Dorothy Dunnett

#17. Whoever chafes at the conditions dealt by fate is unskilled in the art of life; whoever bears with them nobly and makes wise use of the results is a man who deserves to be considered good.

Epictetus

#18. He was a Labour MP so I asked him if it was true the House of Commons was a form of poor relief for the otherwise unemployable...

Robert Robinson

#19. Lucy: I don't understand men.
Nettie: What is there to understand? If you feed 'em regular-like and give 'em a bit of 'sugar' now and then, they're easy enough. And if they don't behave, you just toss 'em out on their arses. That's what I always say.

Sabrina Jeffries

#20. Nettie, it quickly developed, had no gift for mothering. Many women have no gift for it. They mimic the recalled gestures and mannerisms of the women they've been trained to become and hope for the best.

Vivian Gornick

#21. And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent.

Bruce Springsteen

#22. The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.

Evelyn Waugh

#23. Nothing is like being out there and playing and performing and winning - nothing. But to have an interest in the player? The nerves and everything that goes with it? Seeing what he's learned and how he's done it? That's the second best thing to playing. I think.

Jimmy Connors

#24. Because a shadow was a thing that defined itself, and Nettie didn't have to fit anyone else's shape.

Lila Bowen

#25. Christianity takes this beating that I really don't understand and yet you can't say anything negative about the Muslims because that's horrible, you can't say anything negative about other faiths.

Kevin Sorbo