Up Quotes

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and finding out what makes up the biosphere.

I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

When I do get pregnant, I highly doubt I'll be one of those women who don't look pregnant from behind - I'll be that chick who looks pregnant from her ankles up!

Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.

When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.

I've been here 21 years, and I literally did walk up and down Music Row trying to break into the business. I felt very free to go into any publishing company.

I don't like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once.

I love street style, seeing how girls wear pieces and how their pair accessories with their outfit. How they pair shoes with a bag and go to day to night and change things up.

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

I'm 5-foot-5, and I'll wear a big parka and put the hood up, and nobody gives me a second glance.

Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.

All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.

You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it's kind of a lifestyle and it's easy to get caught up in it - you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone's doing a certain thing... It's tough.

In my heart, I'm an Alabaman who went up north to work.

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.

There's a continuity between what I care about in any form: I care about it in my music, in article-writing, in how I dress, in how I live, in my relationships, in how I navigate paparazzi, how I decorate my home. There's such a continuity between everything that I don't really care what form it shows up in.

A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.