Pearl Bailey quotes:

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  • I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.

  • There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

  • There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

  • A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.

  • I don't like to say that my kitchen is a religious place, but I would say that if I were a voodoo priestess, I would conduct my rituals there.

  • Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.

  • No one can figure out your worth but you.

  • You never find yourself until you face the truth.

  • The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.

  • What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

  • People see God every day, they just don't recognize him.

  • To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.

  • A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.

  • The fact is that it takes more than ingredients and technique to cook a good meal. A good cook puts something of himself into the preparation - he cooks with enjoyment, anticipation, spontaneity, and he is willing to experiment.

  • The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

  • You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.

  • The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.

  • Fate carries its own clock.

  • My kitchen is a mystical place, a kind of temple for me. It is a place where the surfaces seem to have significance, where the sounds and odors carry meaning that transfers from the past and bridges to the future.

  • You must change in order to survive.

  • There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it.

  • When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.

  • We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on others.

  • Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.

  • Do not worry about whether or not the sun will rise. Be prepared to enjoy it.

  • Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

  • How can you give a man a room in a house and not let him come through the front door?

  • I discuss humanity and not races.

  • I never ask myself how I do what I do. After all, how does it rain?

  • I see their souls, and I hold them in my hands, and because I love them they weigh nothing.

  • I tell stories to music and, thank God, in tune.

  • Sometimes I would almost rather have people take years of my life than take away a moment.

  • Sometimes you think the whole world is falling, and it's only yourself that's leaning.

  • The deed of love is stronger than words

  • The way we're going to get to understanding is for each man to open his heart and open his mind and look in himself as he looks at his neighbor.

  • You can taste a word.

  • I hate labels, and I wear no labels. When a man has to put something around his neck and say I am, he isn't.

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