Marian Wright Edelman Quotes

A lot of people that I started out with, I don't know where they are. I guess it takes tenacity to still be doing this, and luck, but I've been very blessed.

I've been really, really fortunate.

America has been very, very good to me.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Just in terms of the opportunity I've gotten is amazing. I consider myself super, super, super lucky.

I consider myself to be very fortunate in my career, my timing has worked out.

I'm kind of spoiled, but the great thing about life is that you never know what's around the corner.

I didn't inherit any great success and the problems that came with it, and yet I was able to keep working and supporting myself and later a family. I'm crazy fortunate.

I have been very fortunate in my life. I think I have an angel that is always with me. Good projects always come to me.

Los Angeles has been good to me.

In my life, there have always been people who guided my path, towards the school, towards this company. I didn't know about any of it. I didn't have a plan. It's good fortune and generosity from other people that have given me all I have today.

I feel blessed to have as many comebacks as I can.

If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.

My father told me once not to expect anything from anybody so I wouldn't be disappointed. If somebody was nice and did nice things for me, I should be overjoyed, but I shouldn't go through life expecting it, which is very good advice.

Something will turn up.

I have always thought of myself as rather a happy person. Apart from a few knocks along the way, I consider myself to have been extremely lucky.

Life goes on if you're one of the lucky ones.

I was very blessed always to find work; even when people thought I wasn't working, I was.

I don't know why I was lucky enough to have people in my community take me in. To be able to continue school. Or why I was lucky enough to find work or go to college. I do know that kind of luck is one in a million.

I feel like I should be a really happy, bubbly person to correspond with my good fortune, but I'm more of a this-could-dry-up-any-minute person who tries to enjoy it while it lasts. And if it does dry up, I'll still have the people I love, and I'll just figure out how to pay rent.

I have been lucky that good people have chosen me to be a part of their films, and I am really grateful.

I'm very thankful and very blessed to have the opportunity to play this game.

I had been hired and fired so many times and been so very blessed and lucky.

I've outlived my parents, and I've had some wonderful second chances in life. I feel remarkably uncheated.