Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ryan Lochte

I can't eat beans - all beans. I think because I'm half Cuban. So growing up, we were always eating black beans and rice, and I think I just said, 'Enough with it,' and I can't even stand to taste it anymore.

Richard M. Nixon

When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can't happen.

Robert Smith

Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.

Will Smith

You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.

Virginia Woolf

Why must they grow up and lose it all?

Wayne Pacelle

I don't have a hands-on fondness for animals. I did not grow up bonded to any particular nonhuman animal. I like them and I pet them and I'm kind to them, but there's no special bond between me and other animals

Wanda Sykes

All these teenagers tell us how much they want to grow up and then when they do they want to be young again.

Wayne Gretzky

Growing up, I was always the small guy.

Wayne Dyer

I did have a lot of lack, but I never experienced it. I grew up in the east side of Detroit, in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger. Even growing up in an orphanage, I never woke up saying, "I'm an orphan again today, isn't this terrible? Poor me."

Tupac Shakur

And I hope I'm forgiven for Thug Livin when I die.

Tupac Shakur

Should we cry when the pope dies, my request we should cry if they cried when we buried Malcom X

Tupac Shakur

In my death, people will understand what I was talking about.

Tupac Shakur

Sometimes I sit and look at life from a different angle.

Tupac Shakur

Study your lessons, don't settle for less.

Tupac Shakur

My only fear of death is reincarnation

Tupac Shakur

And now i'm like a major threat, 'Cause I remind you of the things you were made to forget.

Wale

Jay-Z's my favorite rapper, but why can't I aspire to be better than him?

Young Jeezy

I don't know how to be a rapper. I just know how to be me.

Richard Wright

Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain't. They do things and we can't. It's just like livin' in jail.

Richard Avedon

I've worked out of a series of no's. No to exquisite light, no to apparent compositions, no to the seduction of poses or narrative. And all these no's force me to the yes. I have a white background. I have the person I'm interested in and the thing that happens between us.

William Sharp

The desire of love, Joy:The desire of life, Peace:The desire of the soul, Heaven:The desire of God ... a flame-white secret forever.

Vladimir Nabokov

To know that no one before you has seen an organ you are examining, to trace relationships that have occurred to no one before, to immerse yourself in the wondrous crystalline world of the microscope, where silence reigns, circumscribed by its own horizon, a blindingly white arena — all this is so enticing that I cannot describe it.

Xavier Becerra

Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.

Wynonna Judd

I literally went from the outhouse to the White House.

Lewis Wolff

I like the A's best, but I like the White Sox and Angels,

Nate Berkus

They used to tease me at the 'Oprah' show, 'Are you really going to do another white Shaker kitchen, with white subway tile and stainless steel appliances?' And my answer is, 'I can vary it a bit, but I'm never going to err from classic materials.'

Harvey Levin

I didn't feel like it was essential to have a white host or a black host, I wanted a good host.