Quotes with hand-me-down

Quotes 761 till 780 of 1186.

  • Brody Jenner So many girls and guys want to find a girlfriend and settle down. But it's fun to be single.
    Brody Jenner
    American television personality, disc jockey and model (1983 - )
    - +
     0
  • Austan Goolsbee So more than 8 million people lost their jobs. It's going to take a significant push on our part and time before that comes down. I don't anticipate it coming down rapidly.
    Austan Goolsbee
    American economist (1969 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bruce Springsteen So they put a rifle in my hand Sent me off to a foreign land To go and kill the yellow man Born in the U.S.A.
    Born in the U.S.A. (1984)
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
    - +
     0
  • Ben Shahn So, I was offered this job to come down there but first it was suggested that I take a trip around the country in the areas in which we worked to see what it's all about, and I tell you that was a revelation to me.
    Ben Shahn
    Lithuanian-born American artist (1898 - 1969)
    - +
     0
  • Jules Renard Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.
    Jules Renard
    French writer (1864 - 1910)
    - +
     0
  • Victor Hugo Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
    - +
     0
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
    - +
     0
  • Barbara Ehrenreich Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry goddess-creature who resembles everybody's mom in that she knows what's best for us. But if you look at the historical record - Krakatoa, Mt. Vesuvius, Hurricane Charley, poison ivy, and so forth down the ages - you have to ask yourself: Whose side is she on, anyway?
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
    - +
     0
  • Margaret Drabble Some of what we read in classical literature is not relative to our condition, but then many women novelists and poets have turned it upside down and told the stories from the other point of view.
    Margaret Drabble
    English novelist, biographer, and critic (1939 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bernard Gilpin Some relaxation is necessary to people of every degree; the head that thinks and the hand that labors, must have some little time to recruit their diminished powers.
    - +
     0
  • Paul Klee Some will not recognize the truthfulness of my mirror. Let them remember that I am not here to reflect the surface... but must penetrate inside. My mirror probes down to the heart. I write words on the forehead and around the corners of the mouth. My human faces are truer than the real ones.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
    - +
     0
  • Ellen Glasgow Some women like to sit down with trouble as if it were knitting.
    Ellen Glasgow
    American writer (1873 - 1945)
    - +
     0
  • Paul Mccartney Somebody said to me, ''But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.'' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, ''Now, let's write a swimming pool.''
    Paul Mccartney
    English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer (1942 - )
    - +
     0
  • Robert Frost Something there is that doesn't love a wall, and wants it down.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
    - +
     0
  • Brenda Ueland Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.
    Brenda Ueland
    American journalist, editor, and teacher
    - +
     0
  • Robert Alan Sometimes just a smile on our face can help to make this world a better place. Stand up for the things that are right. Try to talk things out instead of fight. Lend a hand when you can, get involved this is good. You can help to make a difference in your neighborhood.
    Robert Alan
    American singer/songwriter and comic book creator (1971 - )
    - +
     0
  • Adam Duritz Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
    Adam Duritz
    American musician and record producer (1964 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bjork Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first and then later I sit down with visual people and we chat about what we want to do. I don't look at myself as a visual artist. I make music.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
    - +
     0
  • Benjamin Watson Sometimes, we feel like we don't want to offend people, but there are times that we need to express ourselves without fear that somebody is going to shut us down simply because we have differing opinions. That's how we grow.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bhante Henepola Gunaratana Somewhere in this process, you will come face to face with the sudden and shocking realization that you are completely crazy. Your mind is a shrieking, gibbering madhouse on wheels barreling pell-mell down the hill, utterly out of control and helpless. No problem. You are not crazier than you were yesterday. It has always been this way, and you just never noticed.... So don't let this realization unsettle you. It is a milestone actually, a sign of real progress.
    - +
     0
All hand-me-down famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 39)