Tears Quotes

Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk.

Anytime James Carville, Paul Begala and David Axelrod hold hands and jump for joy, it's worth pondering how to turn their joy into tears.

The first time I had sat down to a meal I had grown on my own, along with a bottle of wine that we had made, I burst into tears. To be in touch and be in tune with that is an extraordinary gift.

The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.

Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.

Southern states in the confederacy were not ready to give up their fight to secede or give up their way of life, which was made possible in large part through the blood, sweat and tears of African slaves.

The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face.

I think, in my life, there've been three times I've broken down into tears on a set because I was happy.

Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men.

Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

Tears at times have the weight of speech.

I'm sure when the times comes, there will be tears, but there are other avenues that I am embracing with much more passion these days.

If I cry, it's because I'm very angry and I can't do anything about it because I've run into a dead end. That's when the tears would come down.

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.

A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle.

It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.

It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.

Certainly tears are given to us to use. Like all good gifts, they should be used properly.

If we have been brought up with the idea that life is for suffering and sacrifice, then of course we would seek death to escape this 'vale of tears'.

Tears are the noble language of the eye.

It is such a secret place, the land of tears.

The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.

Red Skelton... I broke into tears when I met him.

When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.

And I just remember, you know, breaking into tears and feeling so empty because, as long as Elvis was in the world, you always knew something was going and he always had something that kept everybody mesmerized.

Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff.

When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote, I thought, was weak. And I can remember falling asleep in tears because I had no talent the way I wanted to have.