J. A. Baker Quotes

To be adored is something I recommend.

Precious moments are small elements of time, we show and share love and kindness, with those we care about.

Respect is more than giving consideration of one's feelings. It is showing common courtesy for another human being.

I am very straight-forward and direct. If I disagree with something, I say something about it.

I didn't grow up with money, but I grew up with a lot of space. All I did was surf. I was committed to the ocean. That's one thing about Australians; we have the capacity to embrace life.

In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard.

Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama.

But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.

Our proportionate admission of the claims of good or of evil determines the harmony of our existence, - our health, our longevity, and our Christianity.

Matter and death are mortal illusions.

God is Mind, and God is infinite; hence all is Mind.

Angels are pure thoughts from God, winged with Truth and Love.

Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the centre, but not the boundary, of the affections.

I love performing. I shall perform until the day I die.

Friends, to me for years St. Louis represented a city of fear... humiliation... misery and terror... A city where in the eyes of the white man a Negro should know his place and had better stay in it.

One dance had made me the most famous colored woman in the world.

I dont think being black has held me back at all. Being black makes you strong.

Peace on earth begins with birth.

All I could think of was what a privilege it was to give my life away for love's sake.

Poetry is prose in slow motion.

If I could be doing anything, I'd be laying on the floor in my birthday suit eating junk food and watching something dumb on TV.

Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.

In the age when the atom has been split, the moon encircled, diseases conquered, is disarmament so difficult a matter that it must remain a distant dream?

I'm a strong man, and usually I get over hurts and it makes me stronger when I come back.

It's the end. But the moment has been prepared for.

More than ever, the creation of the ridiculous is almost impossible because of the competition it receives from reality.

It is not short of amazing, the power of a great idea to weld men together. There was in it a peculiar, intense, vital spirit if you will, that I have never felt before in any strike.

A fraternity is an association of men, selected in their college days by democratic processes, because of their adherence to common ideals and aspirations.

Every law of matter or the body, supposed to govern man,is rendered null and void by the law of Life, God.

Error tills its own barren soil and buries itself in the ground, since ground and dust stand for nothingness.

Two points of danger beset mankind; namely, making sin seem either too large or too little.

A wrong motive involves defeat.

Right motives give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to speech and action.

There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.

Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind; nor can the material senses bear reliable testimony on the subject of health.

Emerge gently from matter into Spirit.

Christian Science explains all cause and effect as mental, not physical.

The prayer that reforms the sinner and heals the sick is an absolute faith that all things are possible to God.

Nobody can fail to lose weight in the jungle, unless they've got a secret stash of pork pies somewhere.

To prevent disease or to cure it, the power of Truth, of divine Spirit, must break down the dream of the material senses.

If you have your own agenda and your own style and you don't easily conform to what the masses are doing, you're looked upon as being difficult. Whereas, I think of it as just being an individual.

Vision with action can change the world.

If you don't like the question that's asked, answer some other question.

Demography is changing us as we are older societies, we're living longer. How the generations balance each other out, how that affects education and health care.

In Washington I'm thought of as a conservative, but in Tennessee I'm thought of as a Bolshevik.

Ministry is being one of theses sent out ones, a labourer of love.

I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.

Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.

Money tends to make people suspicious, if there's any money floating around.

When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.