Sarah Louise Delany famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet
-- Sarah Louise Delany

#Inspirational #Happiness #Inspiring
When you get real old, honey, you realize there are certain things that just don't matter anymore. You lay it all on the table. There's a saying, 'Only little children and old folks tell the truth.'
-- Sarah Louise Delany

#Children #Real #African American
[On her 101-year-old sister and herself, at 103:] We have a lot to do ... People don't understand this. They think we're sitting around in rocking chairs, which isn't at all true. Why, we don't even own a rocking chair.
-- Sarah Louise Delany

#Thinking #People #Age
Oh, Mama was a smart woman. It takes a smart woman to fall in love with a good man.
-- Sarah Louise Delany

#Falling In Love #Smart #Men
The world is a puzzling place today. All these banks sending us credit cards, with our names on them. Well, we didn't order any credit cards! We don't spend what we don't have. So we just cut them in half and throw them out, just as soon as we open them in the mail. Imagine a bank sending credit cards to two ladies over a hundred years old! What are those folks thinking?
-- Sarah Louise Delany

#Cutting #Thinking #Order
Am I going to change the world, or am I going to change me? Or maybe change the world a little bit, just by changing me?
-- Sarah Louise Delany

#Change #World #Littles
Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!
-- Sarah Louise Delany

#Beauty #Beautiful #Wrinkles
In our dreams we are always young.
-- Sarah Louise Delany

#Dream #Young
I never let prejudice stop me from what I wanted to do in this life.
-- Sarah Louise Delany

#Prejudice #This Life #Wanted
Have your own doctor, who answers to you. If you don't, when the time comes that you get mixed up with hospitals, they'll treat you like a fool. ... You're bound to lose your health at some point, but you don't have to lose your dignity, too.
-- Sarah Louise Delany

#Fool #Dignity #Doctor Who

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