170 Quotes by Sidney Poitier

Marriage is no way of life for the weak, the selfish, or the insecure.

But perhaps more important, as someone wishing to make a comment or two about contemporary life and values, I don't have to dig through libraries or travel to exotic lands to arrive at a view of our modern situation refracted through the lens of the preindustrial world, or the uncommercialized, unfranchised, perhaps unsanitized-and therefore supposedly more "authentic"-perspective ofthe Third World. Very simply, this is because that "other" world, as alien as if separated by centuries in time, is the one from which I came

Jackie Robinson is a true legend.

I'll always be chasing you... Glory.

History passes the final judgment

I have a kind of respect-- a worshipful attitude, even-- for nature and the natural order and the cosmos and the seasons...

Racism is very painful. That's life. It never ends.

If you are anxious about death, then you don't have a sense of the oneness of things-you feel that after death, you will be no more.

I don't very often read novels.