Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
As I've mentioned, a large part of my father's legacy is the lesson he taught his sons. He brought us together and said, 'The measure of a man is how well he provides for his children.
Sidney Poitier
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Sidney Poitier
Age: 97
Born: 1927
Born: February 20
Actor
Author
Autobiographer
Diplomat
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Television Producer
Miami
Florida
Sir Sidney Poitier
Father
Legacy
Part
Lesson
Together
Measure
Wells
Son
Well
Brought
Children
Lessons
Mentioned
Men
Large
Sons
Taught
Provides
More quotes by Sidney Poitier
I have always been a learner because I knew nothing.
Sidney Poitier
Forgiveness works two ways, in most instances. People have to forgive themselves too. The powerful have to forgive themselves for their behavior. That should be a sacred process.
Sidney Poitier
Accept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment.
Sidney Poitier
I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.
Sidney Poitier
So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.
Sidney Poitier
I want my great-granddaughter to have a fairly good understanding of the world in which I lived for 81 years and also the world before I came into it - all the way back a hundred thousand years, to the beginning of our species.
Sidney Poitier
I had learned something of Miami from people who had visited there, so I knew what to expect.
Sidney Poitier
My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.
Sidney Poitier
We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.
Sidney Poitier
Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.
Sidney Poitier
I learned to hear silence. That's the kind of life I lived: simple. I learned to see things in people around me, in my mom, dad, brothers and sisters.
Sidney Poitier
I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being.
Sidney Poitier
I am the me I choose to be.
Sidney Poitier
Far as I can tell, I still have most of my hair, my gut is not hanging over my belt, and I still have all of my teeth.
Sidney Poitier
If you apologize because you are afraid, then you are a child not a man.
Sidney Poitier
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.
Sidney Poitier
The impact of the black audience is expressing itself. They look to films to be more expressive of their needs, their lives. Hollywood has gotten that message - finally.
Sidney Poitier
My autobiography was simply the story of my life.
Sidney Poitier
I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people.
Sidney Poitier
As I entered this world, I would leave behind the nurturing of my family and my home, but in another sense I would take their protection with me. The lessons I had learned, the feelings of groundedness and belonging that have been woven into my character there, would be my companions on the journey.
Sidney Poitier
