Our Own Stories Quotes

12 quotes by 11 authors

Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of our own stories. — Teju Cole
We have to face the unpleasant as well as the affirmative side of the human story, including our own story as a nation, our own… — Bill Moyers
We as Black people have to tell our own stories. We have to document our history. When we allow someone else to document our history… — Erykah Badu
Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories. — George R. R. Martin
If we don't tell our own stories, no one else will. — Mira Nair
Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock… — Arundhati Roy
In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories. — Alberto Manguel
There are no happy endings... There are no endings, happy or otherwise. We all have our own stories which are just part of the one… — Charles de Lint
Over and over, we start our own tales, compose our own stories, whether our lives are short or long. Until at last all our beginnings… — Cameron Dokey
For we live with those retrievals from childhood that coalesce and echo throughout our lives, the way shattered pieces of glass in a kaleidoscope reappear… — Michael Ondaatje
What do you know about yourself? What are your stories? The ones you tell yourself, and the ones told by others. All of us begin… — Cameron Dokey
I was thinking about framing, and how so much of what we think about our lives and our personal histories revolves around how we frame… — Kiersten White

Who Wrote These Our Own Stories Quotes

11 authors contributed a total of 12 Our Own Stories Quotes as follows: