Pearl Bailey Quotes

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

No one can figure out your worth but you.

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

You must change in order to survive.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

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 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.

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

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.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I discuss humanity and not races.

You can taste a word.

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

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.

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.

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

The deed of love is stronger than words

Fate carries its own clock.

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

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

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.

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

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