Top 26 Quotes About Sethe
#1. Amy dragged her eyes over Sethe's face as though she would never give out so confidential a piece of information as that to a perfect stranger.
Toni Morrison
#3. If you're living off credit-card advances and ramen noodles, a buyout offer might be too hard to resist. And you'll be even smarter the second time around.
Bing Gordon
#4. My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.
James Dean
#5. Creating fear and loathing of gay and lesbian Americans has proven, year after year, to be the most effective say for Dobson and the other fundamentalist Christian leaders to raise millions of dollars and recruit millions of volunteers to support their long-range campaign to take back America.
Mel White
#6. My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin.
Desmond Llewelyn
#7. To Sethe, the future was a matter of keeping the past at bay. The "better life" she believed she and Denver were living was simply not that other one.
Toni Morrison
#8. Gypsy [Rose Lee] wasn't a linear person, and she didn't live life in a linear fashion. She was relentlessly self-inventing, and moved backward as often as she moved forward.
Karen Abbott
#9. My favorite thing about acting is that I can play all kinds of different people. Frankly, I don't consider myself a very interesting person, so the characters I play are usually much more fun.
Nathan Kress
#10. Sethe, he says, "me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow."
He leans over and takes her hand. With the other he touches her face. "You your best thing, Sethe, You are." His holding fingers are holding hers.
"Me? Me?
Toni Morrison
#11. I want to say a simple thing, that the dividing line exists not between Jordan and Israel, but between the proponents of peace and the opponents of peace.
King Hussein I
#12. A bargain is something you have to find a use for once you have bought it.
Benjamin Franklin
#13. The threads of malice creeping toward him from Beloved's side of the table were held harmless in the warmth of Sethe's smile.
Toni Morrison
#14. The will to do, the tenacity to overcome all obstacles and to finish the course, the strength to cling to inexorable ideals, are all rooted in courage.
J. Edgar Hoover
#15. Rainwater held on to pine needles for dear life and Beloved could not take her eyes off Sethe.
Toni Morrison
#16. Was it hard? I hope she didn't die hard.'
Sethe shook her head. 'Soft as cream. Being alive was the hard part.
Toni Morrison
#18. Today is always here,' said Sethe. 'Tomorrow, never.
Toni Morrison
#19. Together they stood in the doorway. For Sethe it was as though the Clearing had come to her with all its heat and simmering leaves, where the voices of women searched for the right combination, the key, the code, the sound that broke the back of words.
Toni Morrison
#20. I'm so thrilled to manufacture in LA and to support the finely skilled craftsmen and women. Making it in America ensures that the fashion industry will continue to thrive in this country for years to come.
Nanette Lepore
#21. You got two feet, Sethe, not four. he said, and right then a forest sprang up between them; tactless and quiet.
Toni Morrison
#23. I tried to empty myself and let the spirit of Sethe inhabit me.
Oprah Winfrey
#24. It's like one day I just decided that it was all bullshit. Who are they to tell me I'm not amazing exactly as I am?
Emily Nagoski
#25. Usually I read biographies of interesting people. I am not attracted to novels - make-believe, or recreations of what people think life should be,
Lee Kuan Yew
#26. I often use music as a handle for very emotionally explosive substances: love, sex, God, fear, doubt, politics, the economics of the soul - these are daunting thoughts in the back of my mind that I rarely visit without the safety gloves of song.
Jon Foreman
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