Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Crutcher

...You don't always get what you expect. I wish someone, sometime when I was growing up, would have told me what expectations would get me. ... Our parents, schools, everyone tells us things will be a certain way when we're adults and if they're not that way, we should make them be; or at least pretend. But after a certain point that just doesn't work.

Chris Evans

Look at pictures of me growing up. It wasn't always the way it is now. It was a bumpy road for me.

Charles Spurgeon

If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.

Diane Kruger

I didn't grow up watching a lot of TV.

Dennis Ritchie

I'm not a person who particularly had heros when growing up.

Dennis Prager

To be told that one can be dependent on one's parents until age 26 should strike a young person who wants to grow up as demeaning, not as something to celebrate.

Debra Wilson

Chick Corea was a great influence on me, musically, as I was growing up.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

Elbert Hubbard

I have noticed that youngsters given to the climbing habit usually do something when they grow up

Steve Hackett

One minute you're listening to ones idea of what they think you ought to be and then the next thing, you start listening to yourself.

Phil Fontaine

No one wanted to pull the plug before. That tells me they are listening and they see us as an important issue.

Dean Rusk

One of the best ways to persuade others is by listening to them.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plough. The trick is just to wake them up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The first service that one owes to others consists in listening to them.

Deepak Chopra

Here are a few ways to face a habit and say "no" to it: Go outside your fixed routine; turn off the computer and the television; find a new outlet for your down time; talk to someone who holds a viewpoint contrary to yours and pay respectful attention, really listening.

Dave Navarro

I grew up listening to albums by Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix, and they all worked on that multi-layered level.

William Whitelaw

I have the thermometer in my mouth and I am listening to it all the time.

David Thewlis

I was still listening to the Beatles until I came here, you know.

Epictetus

Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.

Robert Brown

Now, who shall arbitrate? / Ten men love what I hate, / Shun what I follow, slight what I receive; / Ten who in ears and eyes / Match me: we all surmise, / They this thing, and I that: whom shall my soul believe?

Bob Baffert

When he hit the wire, his ears went up and he wanted to shut down. He's still immature.

Juicy J

I work on holidays. I work on birthdays. I work on New Year's. I work. I keep my ears to the streets.

Bruce Weber

When you make documentaries or short films, you have to have eyes and ears in the back of your head and on the sides and all around you. I like that in my films.

Joe Taylor

We need eyes and ears on the ground for things we can't do ourselves.

Alexander Smith

Fine phrases I value more than bank-notes. I have ear for no other harmony than the harmony of words. To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

Edwin Rodriguez

We want to hear from the public. They are our eyes and ears in the marketplace.

Chris Cleave

In my world death will come chasing. In your world it will start whispering in your ear to destroy yourself. I know this because it started whispering to me when I was in the detention center.