Top 12 Quotes & Sayings by Sarah Louise Delany

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American educator Sarah Louise Delany.

Last updated on December 18, 2024.

Sarah Louise "Sadie" Delany was an American educator and civil rights pioneer who was the subject, along with her younger sister, Elizabeth "Bessie" Delany, of the New York Times bestselling oral history biography, Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years, by journalist Amy Hill Hearth. Sadie was the first African-American permitted to teach domestic science at the high-school level in the New York public schools, and became famous, with the publication of the book, at the age of 103.

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In our dreams we are always young.

Sarah Louise Delany

Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.

Sarah Louise Delany

I never let prejudice stop me from what I wanted to do in this life.

Sarah Louise Delany

When you get real old, honey, you realize there are certain things that just don't matter anymore. You lay it all on the table. There's a saying, 'Only little children and old folks tell the truth.'

Sarah Louise Delany

Am I going to change the world, or am I going to change me? Or maybe change the world a little bit, just by changing me?

Sarah Louise Delany

[On her 101-year-old sister and herself, at 103:] We have a lot to do ... People don't understand this. They think we're sitting around in rocking chairs, which isn't at all true. Why, we don't even own a rocking chair.

Sarah Louise Delany

The world is a puzzling place today. All these banks sending us credit cards, with our names on them. Well, we didn't order any credit cards! We don't spend what we don't have. So we just cut them in half and throw them out, just as soon as we open them in the mail. Imagine a bank sending credit cards to two ladies over a hundred years old! What are those folks thinking?

Sarah Louise Delany

Have your own doctor, who answers to you. If you don't, when the time comes that you get mixed up with hospitals, they'll treat you like a fool. ... You're bound to lose your health at some point, but you don't have to lose your dignity, too.

Sarah Louise Delany

Oh, Mama was a smart woman. It takes a smart woman to fall in love with a good man.

Sarah Louise Delany

Life is a vapor. It passes in the blink of an eye.

Sarah Louise Delany

Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet

Sarah Louise Delany

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Sarah Louise Delany