Best 62 quotes of Ethel Waters on MyQuotes

We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.

We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.

We show girls were forced to live in whorehouses in each town, no other accommodations being available.

What broke Mom's heart was realizing that her children knew nothing and cared nothing about the better side of life.

What impressed me most about New York were its huge apartment houses.

Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk.

Whenever I write for hotel reservations, I always enclose a set of rules I have made for the hotels.

When I act I try to express the suffering or joy I've known during my lifetime.

When I first went on the stage I was 17 and under the legal age for performers.

You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of the family.

God doesn't make junk

Ignorance, foolishness, and poverty-we owned this by our birth.