Seat Quotes

The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor - all conductors are white - ask a Negro woman to get up and take a seat farther back in order to make a place for a white man. I have also seen white men requested to leave the Negro section of the car.

I hope to die in the saddle seat.

I did everything by the seat of my pants. That's why I got hurt so much.

I will fight hard to keep my seat in this place, but that will depend on the people who sent me here.

We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views.

We're one of the forces that causes actors to fasten seat belts before they take off chasing the bad guy in the car... or removes some of the cigarette smoking on television.

Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.

Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.

At first I could not believe what I was reading. I got up from my seat and walked away, talking to myself that I may have found my mom.

The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.

If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.

I took a bit of a back seat, I had kids and I wanted to focus on them. There's that period in the late '90s, the early 2000s, where I didn't do a great deal.

You should never feel comfortable. There is something wrong if you are. You should always feel under threat, on the edge of your seat and pushing yourself. Win one and you want to win more. It's never-ending.

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.