Stories Quotes

If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name.

Your life is nothing more than a love story. Between you and God. Nothing more. Every person, every experience, every gift, every loss, every pain is sent to your path for one reason and one reason only: to bring you back to Him.

You didn't see me on television, you didn't see news stories about me. The kind of role that I tried to play was to pick up pieces or put together pieces out of which I hoped organization might come. My theory is, strong people don't need strong leaders.

Be grateful for every single person who was part of your story.The ones that hurt you. The ones that helped you. Because they all taught you.

Depending on the story that you're telling, you can be relatable to everybody or nobody. I try and tell everybody's story.

Better to have a small role in God's story than to cast yourself as the lead in your own fiction.

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.

There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.

I am only a mouthpiece through which to tell the story of lynching and I have told it so often that I know it by heart. I do not have to embellish; it makes its own way.

If you find my stories dirty, the society you are living in is dirty. With my stories, I only expose the truth

What I tell people is be the best version of yourself in anything that you do. You don't have to live anybody else's story.

Africa’s story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story.

There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.

The rules say that to tell a story you need first of all a measuring stick, a calendar, you have to calculate how much time has passed between you and the facts, the emotions to be narrated.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us.

That's the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn't.

Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough.

The whole point of music is being able to share your story.

Atheism is a fairy story for people afraid of the Light.

We as Black people have to tell our own stories. We have to document our history. When we allow someone else to document our history the history becomes twisted and we get written out. We get our noses blown off.

I have a lot of stories about being a kid because it was the last time I was interesting.

But how could you live and have no story to tell?

Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.

I speak and speak, [...] but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. [...] It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.