Top 84 Rainey Quotes
#1. At twenty-one, Mark had been long and leanly muscled, not a spare inch on him. Rainey's gaze ran down his thirty-four-year-old body and she had to admit he was even better now. In fact, the only way to improve on that body would be to dip it into chocolate.
Jill Shalvis
#2. I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
Madeleine Peyroux
#3. I'm not paranoid, just prepared. There is a distinct difference and a higher survival rate for the latter." Rainey Bell, from "Molly: House on Fire
R.E. Bradshaw
#4. The first big stars, Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, you know, these were gigantic stars. I even wonder sometimes whether all music actually comes from women, whether the first glimmering of music is a mother soothing a baby.
Hugh Laurie
#5. Then his lids closed slowly over his slightly bloodshot eyes, and Mort Rainey, who had yet to discover what true horror was all about, fell asleep.
Stephen King
#6. Maude Rainey was built like a barrel, with a bosom as big as buckets and a voice that some claimed would make hair fall out.
Larry McMurtry
#7. Dylan Landis knows how to unnerve a reader, even as she's appreciating being unnerved. Rainey Royal thrums with sex and power. A brave, exquisite book.
Mary Kay Zuravleff
#8. The man who claims he's never done anything courageous doesn't understand what courage really is.
Dennis Rainey
#9. Acceptance doesn't mean that life gets better; it just means that my way of living life on life's terms improves.
Sharon E. Rainey
#11. Pulling weeds and planting seeds. That's the story of life. We are individual lots on which either weeds of selfishness or fruit of the Holy Spirit grows and flourishes.
Dennis Rainey
#12. A tune's like a staircase - walk up on it.
Ma Rainey
#13. I remember thinking I wanted to die rather than live through another February day of grayness; I didn't tell anyone because I knew it wasn't normal. And normal was all I ever wanted to be.
Sharon E. Rainey
#14. I thought by masking the depression with silence, the feelings might disappear.
Sharon E. Rainey
#17. If you don't like my ocean don't fish in my sea
Stay out of my valley and let my mountain be.
Ma Rainey
#18. I thought that day was the end of my life. It was the end of the world as I knew and understood it. I was taking another step into the unknown, again, onto a path unknown, grappled with fear and anxiety.
Sharon E. Rainey
#21. Initiative is the essence of manhood. Noting comes to the man who is passive, except failure.
Dennis Rainey
#22. But I have one more thing to tell you, Samael. Something that is more important than what any of us want. Listen to me. The last thing Gabriel told me is that during the Tribulation, you will have a mission." ... "She wants you to kill someone. To kill the Antichrist that has risen in your stead.
Phillip W. Simpson
#23. Life is messy. Grit and grace come at us fast, side by side. Sometimes the grit becomes overwhelming and diminishes our spirit. What's good seems lost and gone forever. This is a story about the pathway back to what's beautiful, when the way back seems impossible.
Sharon E. Rainey
#24. Through each crisis in my life, with acceptance and hope, in a single defining moment, I finally gained the courage to do things differently.
Sharon E. Rainey
#25. Scripture paints men as they really are, hiding none of their blemishes or barbaric ways. The honesty of scripture is one of the reasons I knew that the Bible would be the place to go to learn what a real man should be and do.
Dennis Rainey
#26. I always was drawn to the performing arts. I started dancing when I was two. I sang, loved to act, and loved going to visit my mom on-set. But she wanted me to have a normal childhood, so I wasn't really allowed to pursue acting till I got older.
Rainey Qualley
#27. Extreme emotional pain has a profound effect on the body. I witnessed my already frail body become even more toxic and plundered.
Sharon E. Rainey
#28. Why didn't someone tell me that I can become a Christian and settle the doubts afterward?
William Rainey Harper
#29. I am honored to be selected as the 2012 Miss Golden Globe. It's very exciting to be a part of an awards show like the Golden Globes so early on in my career.
Rainey Qualley
#30. Like a young eaglet that gets pushed out of the nest at the appropriate time, a young man must learn to fly on his own. If the nest is too cushy, if all of his creature comforts are there for his enjoyment, then he may set up his high-definition television and perch for a while.
Dennis Rainey
#31. I have learned through repeated experiences that in order to heal, I MUST forgive. The forgiveness is not for the transgressor. The forgiveness is for ME.
Sharon E. Rainey
#32. White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.
Ma Rainey
#33. The core of a man's life should be his relationship with God. The man who walks humbly with God is motivated and empowered to step up and assume the difficult responsibilitie s that come his way.
Dennis Rainey
#34. Forgiveness does not mean I approve of or condone what transpired.
Sharon E. Rainey
#35. Far too many husbands fail to recognize that what your wife wants and needs most from you is your concern for her soul.
Dennis Rainey
#36. People who say that small things don't bother them have never slept in a room with a mosquito.
Dennis Rainey
#37. Let me just say that I now know what it feels like to be the last one to show up a party. There is no grand entrance or fireworks. Just a fizzle and lots of weird looks.
Julie A. Rainey
#38. If you are ever going to achieve as much as you can in a sport, you are going to have to be willing to make a leap of faith to learn how much your body can handle.
Meredith Rainey-Valmon
#39. Remember, you are moving toward a lifetime commitment. Whatever is concealed now will eventually be revealed.
Dennis Rainey
#40. My audience wants to see me beautifully gowned, and I have spared no expense or pains ... For I feel that the best is none too good for the public that pays to hear a singer.
Ma Rainey
#41. Laughter lightens my heart and therefore heals my soul as well.
Sharon E. Rainey
#42. Courage is doing your duty in the face of fear.
Dennis Rainey
#43. I would like to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for giving me this wonderful opportunity to serve as Miss Golden Globe 2012.
Rainey Qualley
#44. NO" is a complete sentence. It does not require an explanation to follow. You can truly answer someone's request with a simple No.
Sharon E. Rainey
#45. If you can get life outta love, you should die trying to get love outta life.
Shane Rainey
#46. By first grade, my sense of worth was in direct proportion to what I learned and what I contributed back to the class. I had already become a human doing instead of a human being.
Sharon E. Rainey
#47. This is where life as I knew it changed. This is where a new feeling slowly, eventually, permeated every cell of my body, changing the way I took in the world. My perceptions, opinions, everything changed the year I moved from Texas to Virginia.
Sharon E. Rainey
#48. Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.
Dennis Rainey
#49. When we have loved, that loving part is the best part of any and every day.
Sharon E. Rainey
#50. I was desperately searching for something to make sense; for the world to connect back with me.
Sharon E. Rainey
#51. When I could find something to laugh about for 30 minutes, my grief lightened just enough to make the day bearable.
Sharon E. Rainey
#52. The routine helped the healing process. It gave me structure. It eliminated any sense of surprise, which at that point, I really didn't want anymore surprises in my life. Routine gave me the foundation for creat- ing a healthier life.
Sharon E. Rainey
#53. Most teenage suicide attempts are cries for help; the teens survive, succeeding in bringing them the wanted attention. Mine was not a cry for help. I wanted to end my life and my misery.
Sharon E. Rainey
#54. The majority has no right to impose its religion on the rest. That's a tradition as sacred as the Constitution itself to this country.
William Rainey Harper
#56. I knew if I stayed where I was, nothing would get better; nothing would change. If I wanted to ease the pain, I had to try something different.
Sharon E. Rainey
#57. My body craved sunshine; winter felt like an addict's withdrawal.
Sharon E. Rainey
#58. With each challenging situation, each nightmare - each new piece of grit embraced and transformed - I came through with a more loving family, deeper friendships, and an even more profound relationship with God.
Sharon E. Rainey
#59. Every dad is the family role model, whether he wants the job or not.
Dennis Rainey
#60. I'm not 'different' from anyone else. Crises and tough emotional periods are the grit around which my inner self has been formed. Some, I have come through with more grace than others.
Sharon E. Rainey
#61. Who were you before someone else told you who to be?
Sharon Rainey
#62. My favorite movies growing up were things like 'The Wizard of Oz,' but as I got older, I really began to admire people like Steven Soderbergh.
Rainey Qualley
#63. I can't cure anyone. I can't guarantee they will heal. I can only tell them my story, remind them that they are not alone in their journey and offer a glimmer of hope for healing.
Sharon E. Rainey
#64. As we each began our journey, we learned the importance of connecting, of laughing with one another (not at one another), of sharing our lives.
Sharon E. Rainey
#65. Set your sights not just on the next few weeks ... set your sights on the years ahead - because our vision will look that far ahead.
William Rainey Harper
#66. I did the only thing I knew how to do: I built my own walls of silence to disguise my desperation and what later came to be recognized and diagnosed as depression.
Sharon E. Rainey
#68. This be an empty world without the blues.
Ma Rainey
#69. Male passivity is a disease that robs a man of his purpose while it destroys marriages, ruins families, and spoils legacies. A passive man doesn't engage; he retreats. He neglects personal responsibility. At its core, passivity is cowardice.
Dennis Rainey
#70. Careful old-timer, your age is showing."
"Hey, I'm only thirty-two. I'm in my prime, woman!"
She harrumphed. "Well, I'm a mere twenty-five and you're way too old for me."
Jay's eyes smoldered as he whispered, "My experience is your gain.
Anne Rainey
#71. As a sufferer of depression for many years, I know the importance of trying to find positive experiences in each day, no matter how small.
Sharon E. Rainey
#72. Most of all, I remember her laughing. It filled my ears. Her smile, her sparkling eyes, and her infectious laughter, along with the vistas, were limitless and unending and powerful.
Sharon E. Rainey
#73. Forgiveness enables me to walk away from that pain, the loneliness and suffering.
Sharon E. Rainey
#74. It is important for me to focus on positive actions taken to heal instead of beating myself up over what I did wrong each day. It shifts my perspective, thus making my body and mind more hospitable places for healing and positive energy.
Sharon E. Rainey
#75. The Aramaic word for "forgive" means literally to "untie." Hatred and anger had bound me to my pain. The fastest way to free the self from an enemy and all associated negativity is to forgive. Untie those bindings; free yourself from that person's ugliness.
Sharon E. Rainey
#76. I could accept my circumstances, my life, people, and even events around me, without giving my approval or releasing my control over such. I don't have to like what happened; I just need to accept that it indeed occurred.
Sharon E. Rainey
#77. They hear it come out, but they don't know how it got there. They don't understand that's life's way of talking. You don't sing to feel better. You sing 'cause that's a way of understanding life.
Ma Rainey
#78. I can't tell my future, so I'm going to tell my past.
Ma Rainey
#80. No one gave me the secret decoder ring on how to make friends.
Sharon E. Rainey
#81. Too many of us are afraid to slow down because then we would have to take a good look at how we're using our time and what we're becoming. We don't want to listen to that other voice deep inside, telling us something is not right.
Dennis Rainey
#82. With each opportunity before me, God presented me with a choice. I could accept His offerings, His wisdom, His grace. Or I could choose to hold onto the pain, the anger and the resentment a little longer.
Sharon E. Rainey
#83. [Advice to Bessie Smith:] Let your soul do the singin'.
Ma Rainey
#84. We cannot fully heal if we cannot experience gratitude on a daily basis.
Sharon E. Rainey
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