Where Quotes

You can go into neighborhoods in the United States where people dress a certain way because they don't want to be out of touch, where boys wear pants down to their knees, which nobody has compelled them to do but they pick up the cultural norms, or where girls are improperly dressed by my eyes, but that's what they see in the media.

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

The idea that you have a vision of what you're supposed to be, or going to be, or where your kids are going to be - and that that doesn't work out - is always going to be something that's going to affect people and move people.

When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.

People will be able to raise their concerns: what are local officers doing about the drug dealing in the local park? What's happening about the pub where all the trouble is? And the police will have to respond.

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing. It's not politically viable; it's not morally right; it's just not going to happen.

A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn't.

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

A comedy club is a place where you work out material, you're trying material.

I depleted myself to the point where I had nothing left.

Somebody help me, tell me where to go from here cause even Thugs cry, but do the Lord care?

Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.

Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are.

I'm thankful for serendipitous moments in my life, where things could've gone the other way.

People who say, 'Let the chips fall where they may,' usually figure they will not be hit by a chip.

Pop music has been all but relegated to the remainder bin at MTV and VH1, where high-maintenance concoctions such as Paris Hilton, Flavor Flav, and Hulk Hogan's biohazard clan of bleached specimens provide endless hours of death-hastening diversion.

Everything my mother and father did was designed to put me where I am.

For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Where I grew up - I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and lonely nights - that's every night. You hear a lot of police sirens, you hear a lot of gunfire. Things that you don't want your kids to hear growing up.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.

I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules.

I've always been worried about the band but I've got to the point now where I think it's time to start thinking about myself a bit more.

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.