Author: Ethel Waters

Quotes

Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.

Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.

- 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

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

I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try.

I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try.

- Ethel Waters

When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege.

When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege.

- Ethel Waters

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

- 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

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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