Famous Quotes & Sayings

We told him he could play and we would watch. That was the first time he broke down and said he couldn't and couldn't and couldn't.

John Gay

We are frustrated with the broken immigration system. It doesn't match the economic reality.

We are failing as a country because our structures have broken down. We have left everything to the presidency and we have caused our people to zero in on what is at State House.

What you hear about mostly is her experiences in San Francisco, ... But the letters definitely give you an idea about what her family is to her. It actually was a very loving family. Certainly not some broken home or abuse.

Elizabeth Rodriguez

I grew up in a broken home, working class. My paternal grandmother raised me and my brother; my father was with us, and my mother lived in Jersey.

Erich Bergen

My dad grew up in Pittsburgh in the '50s, and he used to sing Four Seasons songs on the stoop. He made me listen to Cousin Brucie - the guy who broke the Four Seasons on the radio. So I knew all of their songs, but I didn't know they were all by the same group.

Jimmy Cliff

Christian values were important at home. Cleanliness. Don't steal. Don't lie. Those were the rules, and they were strictly enforced. Especially the stealing and lying. When you broke the rules, you got a beating. I always broke the rules a lot.

Lauren London

I was 16 and got my boyfriend's name tattooed on me. Don't do it. 'Cause it hurts. The moment you do it, the next month, the next year, you'll be broken up - trust me - and cover-ups hurt. You can show your love in other ways. Ink is not it. Write it on a piece of paper and mail it to him.

Tony McCoy

When I was 18, I broke my leg, and my shin came right through - like I had two knees.

Mary Landrieu

The people of our states have survived storms before. That was not what put us under. It was the levee system that broke in New Orleans.

I was the understudy to the understudy in a year-two production of 'Big Chief Red Feather.' The boy who had the lead broke his arm, and then the understudy got chicken pox. And I loved it. I got to wear the most feathers in my headdress.

Abby Wambach

I don't care how many championships you've won or how many records you've broken - if you've had a hand in pushing forward not only a game but women in sport's movement, then I think that's pretty darn good.

The outlook for gold is positive and we have broken through some critical resistance levels.

Bobby Sands

They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken.

Brian Perkins

Would you love a man of a broken shell after the passing of a women's soul?

Brennan Manning

To be alive is to be broken; to be broken is to stand in need of grace.

Our capacity for wholeheartednes s can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted.

Antonio Porchia

Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.

Antonio Porchia

The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken.

Antonio Porchia

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.

Bruce Lee

Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope.

Bruce Lee

It is better to live as a broken piece of jade, than to live as a useless clay.

Edmund Spenser

I hate the day, because it lendeth light To see all things, but not my love to see.

Eckhart Tolle

Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.

Eckhart Tolle

Do you really need to mentally label every sense perception and experience? Do you really need to have a reactive like/dislike relationship with life where you are in almost continuous conflict with situations and people? Or is that just a deep-seated mental habit that can be broken? Not by doing anything, but by allowing this moment to be as it is.

Edith Wharton

Life's just a perpetual piecing together of broken bits.

Arthur C. Clarke

Those meaningless and unanswerable questions the minds keep returning to, like a tongue exploring a broken tooth.

Anton Chekhov

To regard one's immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Disciples will not be weakened by suffering, worn down, and embittered until they are broken. Instead, they bear suffering, by the power of him who supports them. The disciples bear the suffering laid on them only by the power of him who bears all suffering on the cross. As bearers of suffering, they stand in communion with the Crucified.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

You’re going to leave me, aren’t you? … You’ve had enough of me, haven’t you? You’re probably so tired of all this crying and all these moods, and I’ve got to tell you, so am I. So am I. Sometimes it seems like my mind has a mind of its own, like I just get hysterical, like it’s something I can’t control at all. And I don’t know what to do, and I feel so sorry for you because you don’t know what to do either. And I’m sure you’re going to leave me now.

Ashlee Simpson

When you see someone you love with somebody else, your heart kind of falls to the ground.

Ben Stein

I spend so much time in fear of going broke, and I never have been even remotely close to going broke.

Barbara de Angelis

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. The heart will break... but broken live on.