Famous Quotes & Sayings

Demi Lovato

Growing up in America, I never really appreciated my culture. I knew what being Hispanic was, but I thought that since I didn't look Hispanic, I was white.

Alexander Herzen

We think the purpose of a child is to grow up because it does grow up. But its purpose is to play, to enjoy itself, to be a child. If we merely look to the end of the process, the purpose of life is death

Amos Oz

When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like ants. Writers are not hard to kill either. But not books: however systematically you try to destroy them, there is always a chance that a copy will survive and continue to enjoy a shelf-life in some corner on an out-of-the-way library somehwere in Reykjavik, Valladolid or Vancouver.

Steve Buscemi

I've always loved comedy and growing up it was the comedies that I really responded to. So I don't know how it turned out that once I started acting that I started getting a certain kind of role, that I never saw myself as growing up, so I really love when I get an opportunity to play a [comedian] role.

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.

Kevin Heise

The growing Hispanic population is where this is going to rear its head. We're going to have more examples.

Jake Gyllenhaal

I grew up on movie sets, so it was something I just found familiar. When I was growing up also, in high school, I would audition for things and my parents let me audition for things - with the thought that I wouldn't get them. And then I would get them... sometimes, and it would surprise them.

Jacques Ellul

Technological society leads to increasing numbers of people who cannot adapt to the inhuman rhythm of modern life with its emphasis on specialization. A class of people is growing up who are unexploitable because they are not worth employing even for the minimum wage. Technological progress makes whole categories of people useless without making it possible to support them with the wealth produced by the progress.

Malik Bendjelloul

The kids growing up in the apartheid era were so restricted and angry - if they spoke out against it, they were thrown in jail.

Chris Samuels

It has to be instincts because he's been around a long time.

Josh Lucas

My instincts are not comedic.

Cesar Chavez

There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.

Bobby Knight

I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.

Bobby Howard

We were leading 7-2 in the game. We just didn't get it done.

Scott Walker

My problem with public sector union leaders, the bosses, has been they stood in the way of protecting the taxpayer.

Tim Floyd

We don't have a lot of depth. After losing an 11-point lead I took a look at what we had and wondered where our offense was going to come from and rolled the dice.

Michael Strahan

I think I've done just about everything I could do as a leader, ... You lead by words, by example.

Jason Tarleton

We can't get a lead and maintain it. We aren't to that point.

Cleve Ryan

We do want to come out and get us a little lead early. That is one of our goals, to get the tempo going in our favor.

Jontae Sherrod

If I don't put points on the board, I don't know how else they'll get up there. I have to lead by example.

Swami Vivekananda

I am responsible for my fate, I am the bringer of good unto myself, I am the bringer of evil. I am the Pure and Blessed One. We must reject all thoughts that assert to the contrary.

Freda Adler

If one would discern the centers of dominance in any society, one need only look to its definitions of "virtue" and "vice" or "legal" and "criminal," for, in the strength to set standards, resides the strength to maintain control.

Maggie Kuhn

Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.

Maggie Kuhn

Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The people rate strength before everything.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.

Jimmy Carter

The reduction of nuclear arsenals and the removal of the threat of worldwide nuclear destruction is a measure, in my judgment, ofthe power and strength of a great nation.

Emily Dickinson

Not to discover weakness is The Artifice of strength.