Had Quotes

I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.

When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.

I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.

I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.

I stand before you as the governor of Texas but also stand before you the son of two tenant farmers. Ray Perry who came home after 35 bombing missions over Europe to work his little corner of land out there and Amelia who made sure that my sister Milla and I had everything that we needed, included hand sewing my clothes until I went off to college.

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.

If your life had lyrics, would they be any good?

If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my first choice was an actor, but if I couldn't be that, I'd want to be a superhero.

But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.

Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107.

I hate it when people slag us off. We had done three tours during 1970 and we finished off feeling we had just about had enough. We had done so much in that short space of time, we were drained.

When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.

Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.

I would love to be married. But it's not a necessity like the way that I feel I need and want to have children. It would be wonderful to have a husband, and I would feel blessed to do it. But I would feel sad for the rest of my life if I had no kids.

I had a bad back for a couple of years. I had to do a lot of physiotherapy for it. What I couldn't understand at the time was why the therapists had me doing a lot of stomach work.

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.

I sacrificed six years in L.A. I did my job out here. I made contacts and did the work I had to do.

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.

You know, I don't think I had a concept of what I would be or do.

I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.

We already have a sabbatical system. It's called opposition, and I've had enough of it.

I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.

When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.

If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.

I had a lot of friends in high school and in college, and we had a good time.

If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?

When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half.

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.