~When your kids come home, they don't necessarily want to talk to you. They just want to know you're standing there, ready… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
Swimming is great because there are levels of goals. First, when I was four, it was making it to the other end… — Summer Sanders Copy Share Image
I'm standing in a slaughterhouse where the cattle are begging to become hamburgers. I have a right to be jumpy. — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes Copy Share Image
Europe is standing on the brink of the greatest tragedy in the history of the human race: a new world war, that… — Vidkun Quisling Copy Share Image
It was an elevating, transforming vision: a new, fresh, vigorous, and above all morally regenerate people rising from the obscurity to defend… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
The bomb goes off in Australia, and a 360-degree sphere of ionosphere (which is up there not too far above your heads,… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you… — John Knowles Copy Share Image
The only way you can check Gretzky is to hit him when he is standing still singing the national anthem. — Harry Sinden Copy Share Image
Almost every great achievement began with someone finally getting ticked off, saying, 'Enough!' and standing up to fight. — Darren Hardy Copy Share Image
Most of my act is improvisation. I'm inspired for the moment. Standing there in front of 2,000 or 3,000 people you don't… — Howie Mandel Copy Share Image
When I think about that kind of spirit. I think about my mother, who is standing here with me tonight. My mother… — Wendy Davis Copy Share Image
I'm so moved when I see everyday Americans standing together, against all odds, to make their lives and communities better - whether… — Sally Kohn Copy Share Image
It has been my privilege on various occasions to converse with presidents of the United States and important men in other governments.… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
If you think back to the fight over drones, when I was proud to be standing shoulder to shoulder with Rand Paul… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing. — Dennis Banks Copy Share Image
The treble parade would have been the most perfect moment of my footballing life, but for the two people standing behind me,… — Robbie Fowler Copy Share Image
The turn I made was not the one I planned. And I watched my social standing slip away from me, while I… — Merle Haggard Copy Share Image
The more you try to be like someone else, the more you find yourself standing in the way. — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It's standing in love that matters. — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening… — Jim Jeffords Copy Share Image
The exceptions were two men a little ahead of them, standing just outside the Three Broomsticks. One was very tall and thin;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I encounter a sunrise, a painting, a woman, or an idea that makes my heart bound like a young calf, then… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
I buy water at the liquor store across the street from where I live. So I'm walking into the door, and standing,… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
I consider myself a feminist. My whole life has been about standing up for women, for anybody really, who's been abused. — Terry Crews Copy Share Image
The shots had dispersed the birds; there remained only two marabous, standing between ten and twenty paces away and plunged in reverie.… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
Well, I'm not a member of the permanent political establishment, and I've learned quickly these last few days that if you're not… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
I will never forget the bright September day, standing at my desk in the White House, when my young assistant said that… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Your art is part of the big painting of your life. You are on your own, standing by yourself in the middle… — Michele Cassou Copy Share Image
We must "Bring Back Our Girls" and support Nigerians working every day to create change. Please donate now to support Nigerian organizations… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
Our emancipation means standing up for strong families, our emancipation means standing against the homosexuality agenda, emancipation for us means standing up… — Alvin Bailey Copy Share Image
Like a stand of lodgepole pines in a gale Raisa's followers all went down leaving her standing alone....There's no shelter for me… — Cinda Williams Chima Copy Share Image
Standing on a ledge again. Everyone laughs at dancing monkey with the typewriter. Not for long, though. — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
I was always an outsider, always standing outside, observing and trying to figure things out. Which is exactly what you need to… — Monica Ali Copy Share Image
Writing about Africa by Africans has been part of my literary apprenticeship, standing alongside works by authors such as Joseph Conrad, Joyce… — Giles Foden Copy Share Image
Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
Comedy, when it works, is light on its feet and has the illusion of complete spontaneity: as if there is no film,… — David Dobkin Copy Share Image
I saw you standing on a veranda you'd built with your own hands. And I loved you. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
