Quotes About Marian Anderson

#1. I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically on the stereo, my German-American mother fingering 'The Lost Chord' on the piano as golden light sank through trees, my Palestinian father trilling in Arabic in the shower each dawn.

Naomi Shihab Nye

#2. My chief literary influences have been Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. My favorite public figures include Jimmy Durante, Marlene Dietrich, Mary McLeod Bethune, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Marian Anderson, and Henry Armstrong.

Langston Hughes

#3. Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.

Marian Anderson

#4. I forgave the DAR many years ago. You lose a lot of time hating people.

Marian Anderson

#5. Where there is money, there is fighting.

Marian Anderson

#6. Those who possess adequate spiritual and mental resources will meet the heartaches or the happiness of each day with courage, calmness and capacity.

Henry Clausen

#7. But you mark my words: I will be there when everything you love is destroyed. Everything you didn't even believe you would have.

Ana Franco

#8. When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.

Marian Anderson

#9. Sometimes, it's like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't feel it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating. (regarding prejudice and discrimination)

Marian Anderson

#10. A person has to be busy to be alive.

Marian Anderson

#11. You lose a lot of time, hating people.

Marian Anderson

#12. When I sing, I don't want them to see that my face is black. I don't want them to see that my face is white. I want them to see my soul. And that is colorless.

Marian Anderson

#13. You can't build a chimney from the top, you know.

Marian Anderson

#14. Everyone has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.

Marian Anderson

#15. I had gone to Europe ... to reach for a place as a serious artist, but I never doubted that I must return. I was - and am - an American.

Marian Anderson

#16. I always wanted that house where everybody wants to go, full of energy, dogs, music, fun.

Rob Lowe

#17. None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.

Marian Anderson

#18. If you have a purpose in which you can believe, there's no end to the amount of things you can accomplish.

Marian Anderson

#19. You're too tall, Demyan."
"Do I make you feel short, krasivyy?"
"No, you make me feel safe. Like nobody can hurt me here."
"Nobody will."
"Well, not when I'm with you, anyway.

Bethany-Kris

#20. A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God ... When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy.

Marian Anderson

#21. Dear billion dollar eyes they are a paupers dream

Amit Abraham

#22. Prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.

Marian Anderson

#23. None of us is responsible for the ...

Marian Anderson

#24. Close your eyes for a few seconds and imagine yourself playing Super Mario Brothers.

Anonymous

#25. I have a great belief in the future of my people and my country.

Marian Anderson

#26. Are you willing to self -sacrifice to achieve your goals?

Lailah Gifty Akita

#27. Real happiness comes from inside. Nobody can give it to you.

Sharon Stone

#28. Ruby's tenth birthday party. She wore a red dress and we skated and she told me we were halfway to twenty and someday we would go to France.

Catherine Lacey

#29. I suppose I might insist on making issues of things. But that is not my nature, and I always bear in mind that my mission is to leave behind me the kind of impression that will make it easier for those who follow.

Marian Anderson

#30. Prayer begins where human capacity ends.

Marian Anderson

#31. As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Marian Anderson

#32. The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

Marian Anderson

#33. You cannot fool an audience.

Marian Anderson

#34. There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the make the first move - and he, in turn, waits for you.

Marian Anderson

#35. Sometimes you're overwhelmed when a thing comes, and you do not realize the magnitude of the affair at that moment. When you get away from it, you wonder, did it really happen to you.

Marian Anderson

#36. My people - before I was changed - they exchanged this as a sign of devotion. It's a Claddagh ring. The hands represent friendship; the crown represents loyalty ... and the heart ... Well, you know ... Wear it with the heart pointing towards you. It means you belong to somebody. Like this.

Joss Whedon