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Anita Bryant

(1940–2024) Singer United States

107 quotes in 338 categories

Anita Bryant was a singer from the United States, best known for Mine eyes have seen the glory.

Quick Facts About Anita Bryant

Born: March 25, 1940
Died: December 16, 2024
Nationality: United States
Profession: Singer
Notable works: Mine eyes have seen the glory

About Anita Bryant

Anita Jane Bryant was an American singer and anti-gay-rights activist. She had three top 20 hits in the United States in the early 1960s. She was the 1958 Miss Oklahoma beauty pageant winner, and a brand ambassador for the Florida Citrus Commission from 1969 to 1980.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Ellis Island Medal of Honor

Quotes by Anita Bryant · Page 4

I myself have always lived with homosexuals, always had a policy of live and let live.

Always

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Homosexuality is an abomination to the Lord.

God

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The church needs to wake up and find some way to cope with divorce and women's problems that are based on Biblical…

Church

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It is sad when a particular group of people, no matter what they are, are able to... thrust their way of life…

Community

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I never used to charge religious groups.

Charge

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I don't want America to be judged as God judged Sodom and Gomorrah.

America

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I don't know what I'd do without my little black notebook.

Black

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People hated me because I spoke the truth.

Because

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When God calls you to do something, and when it's put upon you in such a way that you're boxed in, it…

Boxed

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Some pastors are so hard-nosed about submission and insensitive to their wives' needs that they don't recognize the frustration even hatred within…

Frustration

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The more I get persecuted, the more people knock on my door in support.

Door

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I don't think of myself as a preacher.

Myself

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I was singing from the time I was 6 years old - at banquets and school shows back in Oklahoma.

Oklahoma

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If gays are granted rights, next we'll have to give rights to prostitutes and to people who sleep with St. Bernards and…

Gay

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I'm getting very lazy now that we have a family.

Family

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I was naive and ignorant. I'll never be like that again. But I can't go back. I've come out. I can't stick…

Go

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I can't put judgment on any individual, only God can.

God

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I had worked with homosexuals all my life and I always had a policy of live and let live.

Always

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We don't lead a social lite and when we get vacation time we spend il at home.

Home

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While continuing to speak out and work against those laws that sanction homosexuality, we also shall continue to seek help and change…

Change

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I had to have security like the President of the United States.

Cybersecurity

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Nobody ever sold more Florida orange juice than I did.

Florida

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I don't have a cause - I am being obedient to God.

Am

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The family in this country is being torn apart. With each member doing his own thing, doing it if it feels good…

Country

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I have made a lot of money during my career in show business and now I have the financial security to expand…

Business

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God (21) Time (13) Children (11) People (10) Life (8)