Ma Rainey Quotes

Far too many husbands fail to recognize that what your wife wants and needs most from you is your concern for her soul.

If you don't like my ocean don't fish in my sea Stay out of my valley and let my mountain be.

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.

I can't tell my future, so I'm going to tell my past.

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.

This be an empty world without the blues.

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.

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.

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.

[Advice to Bessie Smith:] Let your soul do the singin'.

Every dad is the family role model, whether he wants the job or not.

A tune's like a staircase - walk up on it.

Remember, you are moving toward a lifetime commitment. Whatever is concealed now will eventually be revealed.

Initiative is the essence of manhood. Noting comes to the man who is passive, except failure.

People who say that small things don't bother them have never slept in a room with a mosquito.

The bigger the trophy, the more trivial the contest.

The man who claims he's never done anything courageous doesn't understand what courage really is.

Courage is doing your duty in the face of fear.

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.

I would like to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for giving me this wonderful opportunity to serve as Miss Golden Globe 2012.

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.

Why didn't someone tell me that I can become a Christian and settle the doubts afterward?

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.

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.

Initiative is at the heart of manhood

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.

No patriotism is genuine that is merely partisan or provincial.

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.

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.

Time heals even the deepest wounds.

Laughter lightens my heart and therefore heals my soul as well.

We are exquisite souls housed in physical bodies.

Extreme emotional pain has a profound effect on the body. I witnessed my already frail body become even more toxic and plundered.

Forgiveness enables me to walk away from that pain, the loneliness and suffering.

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.

Through each crisis in my life, with acceptance and hope, in a single defining moment, I finally gained the courage to do things differently.

If you can get life outta love, you should die trying to get love outta life.

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.

I thought by masking the depression with silence, the feelings might disappear.

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.

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.

Forgiveness does not mean I approve of or condone what transpired.

When I could find something to laugh about for 30 minutes, my grief lightened just enough to make the day bearable.

Love is magic in its rawest form.

We cannot fully heal if we cannot experience gratitude on a daily basis.

When we have loved, that loving part is the best part of any and every day.

People don't have ideas, ideas have people.