Ana Ross > Ana's Quotes

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

“A hard man is nice to find”
― Tom Barry, When the Siren Calls

“I took a deep breath. "I'm sorry I lied, I like your Star Wars sheets, you're not that bad of a driver, and I swear on my Very Cherry lip gloss that I will never lie to you again.”
― Gemma Halliday, Deadly Cool

“That craptastical, gutless, son-of-a-cactus-humping butt monkey!!”
― Gemma Halliday, Deadly Cool

“Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

“I’m helplessly, hopelessly, head-over-heels in love with you.  I think of you all the time when we’re apart.  When I’m with you, the world and all its pressures just melt away.  Your smile gives me hope, courage, and strength.  You make me feel like a man who can do anything.”
― Ana E. Ross, The Doctor's Secret Bride

“heady scent of Erik’s cologne. She glanced around the softly painted room, noticing that the inside walls were mirrored, allowing a full view of the bed.  Feeling an awakening blush come, she instantly flushed the images from her mind. You’re here to make the bed. She walked toward an archway that opened into two separate walk-in dressing areas complete with built-in bureaus and drawers.  She took a swift peek inside the Hers and her heart”
― Ana E. Ross, The Doctor's Secret Bride

“When you truly love someone, you could probably forgive them just about anything.” ”
― Ana E. Ross, The Doctor's Secret Bride

“We have no control over where we come from, only where we end up.”
― Ana E. Ross, The Doctor's Secret Bride

“I’m saying that I love you, Tashi Evelyn Holland Andreas.  I love you.” ”
― Ana E. Ross, The Tycoon's Temporary Bride

“To God, to Life, to Love, to Family, to Friends, to Prosperity,”
― Ana E. Ross, The Tycoon's Temporary Bride

“If I could offer you one bit of advice, Kaya, it would be that you must live.  Life is too short.  Do all the things you want to do before it’s too late.  And whatever you do, don’t run from love; don’t hide from it.  Embrace it with wide-open arms, for after all is said and done, Love is all”
― Ana E. Ross, The Mogul’s Reluctant Bride

“Both he and Tashi froze, pulled apart, and gazed open mouthed at their four-month-old baby. “He said, Dada. He said, Dada.” Adam picked up his”
― Ana E. Ross, With These Four Rings

“Even in the face of death, life shone brightly through. God took away today, but he’d already given back, abundantly. The child growing in her womb attested to the ever-spinning, ever-continuing circle of life.”
― Ana E. Ross, With These Four Rings

“Alyssa laid her head on his chest. “But my heart is broken, Uncle Bryce. I’ll never see my mommy and daddy again.”
― Ana E. Ross, The Mogul’s Reluctant Bride

“Love should be easy, Desire. It’s when we try to manipulate it, abuse it, hide it, deny it, dishonor it, and run from it that it becomes difficult and causes us pain.”
― Ana E Ross, Desire's Chase: Chase & Desire

“Alyssa shouted, “Can somebody get my oatmeal from the freezer, please?”
― Ana E. Ross, The Mogul’s Reluctant Bride

“They are working multiple jobs, trying to make it in a system designed to prevent them from getting ahead. Strong Black women are not just the backbone of society, they are its breath and its heartbeat.”
― Inger Burnett-Zeigler, Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen: Exploring The Emotional Lives of Black Women

“Her independence allows her to maintain a sense of control over herself and her circumstances.”
― Inger Burnett-Zeigler, Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen: Exploring The Emotional Lives of Black Women

“The strong Black woman has been trained to put the needs of others—especially family—ahead of her own. This can mean sacrificing personal hopes, dreams, aspirations, and especially time for self-care, in order to take care of children, as mothers often do. As she achieves career success, the strong Black woman may feel responsible for helping people in her family and community, which sometimes can lead to a sense of pride, purpose, and value and other times can leave her feeling worn down, stressed, and overwhelmed.”
― Inger Burnett-Zeigler, Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen: Exploring The Emotional Lives of Black Women

“Statistics reported that Black women are earning more college degrees than any other racial/ethnic group;5 however, college-educated Black women still earn less than white women who are not college educated.”
― Inger Burnett-Zeigler, Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen: Exploring The Emotional Lives of Black Women

“While we’re trying to come up, racism continuously has its foot on our necks.”
― Inger Burnett-Zeigler, Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen: Exploring The Emotional Lives of Black Women

“Parents who have experienced trauma often have excessive feelings of fear and worry that an unnamed catastrophic event is going to happen, so they try to exert control over their children in an attempt to keep them safe from harm. This behavior is intended to protect children, but instead, the adults model anxiety and the children internalize the fears and worries of their parents as their own. The fears of the parents become the fears of the children.”
― Inger Burnett-Zeigler, Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen: Exploring The Emotional Lives of Black Women

“Even when we humans are busy shaking our heads no, shoving down our fears and shoving off our blessings, the Father has a way of propelling us forward, of moving us toward his way. Warren”
― Cicely Tyson, Just As I Am

“Nature has bestowed Black people with one of its most prized gifts, melanin, and in a society where we are seldom allowed an advantage, Warren understood the importance of utilizing mine.”
― Cicely Tyson, Just As I Am

“It was her way of loving me, of trying to redirect my steps and shift my affections away from the strivings of this world and back toward the kingdom of heaven. And yet even those who care deeply for us cannot always see our big picture, the Grand Story Line that is destined to unfold before us. They are on their own journeys. And though their paths may run parallel to ours, each is singular in its curves and mileposts, unique in its destination. As much as others want the best for us, they do not necessarily understand God’s best. He alone does.”
― Cicely Tyson, Just As I Am

“When someone sees you headed in a direction, and that person throws a brick into the road, that is the precise moment to forge onward, with greater velocity, toward your destination.”
― Cicely Tyson, Just as I Am

“I refused to have some man, with his hot breath on my neck and his pasty fingers on my nipples, impede my plan.”
― Cicely Tyson, Just As I Am

“When someone violates you sexually, it does not simply haunt and aggrieve you; it alters the very shape of your soul.”
― Cicely Tyson, Just as I Am

“Black women—our essence, our emotional intricacies, the indignities we carry in our bones—are the most deeply misunderstood human beings in history. Those who know nothing about us have had the audacity to try to introduce us to ourselves, in the unsteady strokes of caricature, on stages, in books, and through their distorted reflections of us.”
― Cicely Tyson, Just As I Am