Author: Ethel Waters

Quotes

There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business.

There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business.

- Ethel Waters

My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.

My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.

- Ethel Waters

We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.

We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.

- Ethel Waters

In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live.

In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live.

- Ethel Waters

You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you.

You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you.

- Ethel Waters

Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news.

Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news.

- Ethel Waters

New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been.

New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been.

- Ethel Waters

Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me.

Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me.

- Ethel Waters

Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show.

Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show.

- Ethel Waters

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