Pearl Bailey
Pearl Bailey
Pearl Mae Baileywas an American actress and singer. After appearing in vaudeville, she made her Broadway debut in St. Louis Woman in 1946. She won a Tony Award for the title role in the all-black production of Hello, Dolly! in 1968. In 1986, she won a Daytime Emmy award for her performance as a fairy godmother in the ABC Afterschool Special, Cindy Eller: A Modern Fairy Tale...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionStage Actress
Date of Birth29 March 1918
CitySouthampton County, VA
CountryUnited States of America
Pearl Bailey quotes about
What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
You must change in order to survive.
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.
Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.
I see their souls, and I hold them in my hands, and because I love them they weigh nothing.
The way we're going to get to understanding is for each man to open his heart and open his mind and look in himself as he looks at his neighbor.
When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.
I don't like to say that my kitchen is a religious place, but I would say that if I were a voodoo priestess, I would conduct my rituals there.
There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.
Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.
There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it.