Famous Quotes

"Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power."

Alice Walker on Money

More quotes about Money

• "When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life now that I am old I know that it is."

  Oscar Wilde on Money

• "A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money."

  John Ruskin on Money

• "Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants."

  Benjamin Franklin on Money

• "The lack of money is the root of all evil."

  Mark Twain on Money

• "Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it."

  Mark Twain on Money

More quotes by Alice Walker

• "Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for."

• "'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding."

• "As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best."

• "As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young."

• "I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again."