Francis Chan Quotes

I love staring out toward the ocean and away from anything manmade.

Francis Chan

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• The way we do music in Brazil is very different because we are so moved by music; we grow up with that.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Up
  • Music
  • Different

• I think some people forget sometimes I do have to go to the grocery store; I do enjoy going out to dinner. I have to get my oil changed from time to time. I do all the normal things. I cut my grass. People kind of forget that normal part, that we do a lot of the stuff that everybody else does, but we all have our talents, and mine is in football.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • People
  • Time
  • Football

• I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.

  

  Mac Davis
  • People
  • You
  • Communication

• I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Time
  • Love
  • Character

• I have no hatred for cops. I have hatred for racists and brutal people, but not necessarily the cops. The cops are just doing what they're told to do.

  

  Ice T
  • People
  • Doing
  • Hatred

• For as long as I can remember, we've been having debates about the foreign policy disasters and seemingly unsolvable problems around the world. Dinner conversations are replayed over generations - nothing seems to get better, and in some aspects, it seems dramatically worse, and that is especially true for women.

  

  Dana Perino
  • World
  • Long
  • Women

• When I was in the 12th grade, I got my girlfriend pregnant. I just got out of school, she was a 10th-grader. I'm a teen parent, and I'm at a point where I'm like, 'Man I've got to do something.'

  

  Ice T
  • School
  • She
  • Man

• 'In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child,' says good old Santa Claus; and if he had his way the children would all be beautiful, for all would be happy.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • World
  • Good
  • Children

• Good-night; ensured release,Imperishable peace,Have these for yours,While sea abides, and land,And earth's foundations stand,And heaven endures.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Good
  • Night
  • Earth

• Back to him she would never go, but in her lonely life still lived the sweet memory of that happy time when she believed in him and he was all in all to her.

  

  Louisa May Alcott
  • Life
  • Time
  • She

• Freedom does not mean doing what you can get away with, doing what you please. It means, instead, having the opportunity to do what you ought to do-for family and for community and for humanity as a whole.

  

  Alan Keyes
  • Family
  • Freedom
  • Opportunity

• Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it. I want to draw a certain response like this.. ..that quality of response from people when they leave themselves behind, often experienced in nature, an experience of simple joy.. .My paintings are about merging, about formlessness.. .A world without objects, without interruption.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • People
  • World
  • Experience

• The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • American
  • Society
  • Law

• The fact that people put on 'Honey, I'm Good' to get their day started - that's really sweet.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • People
  • Good
  • Sweet

• The problem with Mr. Obama is that you get more regulation and it's a disincentive for businessmen to hire people. You probably also get higher taxes, so in terms of the economy, he is very negative in my view.

  

  Marc Faber
  • People

• I feel like I'll always be a brunette, that's just who I am, but I love that I can switch it up and be whatever I want to be.

  

  Katharine McPhee
  • Up

• Unfortunately, my colleagues in Congress have unfairly burdened the Postal Service with a costly, unfunded mandate to pre-pay health care for retirees. No other agency or business has to pay these costs in advance - and neither should the Postal Service.

  

  Marcia Fudge
  • Business
  • Health
  • Service

• It's so cool though when I see thirty-year-old men that are coming in to watch my shows. It's like, 'You really like my music? Like a teenage girl, you relate to it?' It just proves how much people are alike.

  

  Alessia Cara
  • People
  • Music
  • Men

• KIND had grown from a team of dedicated, overworked generalists to a large, professional organization with specialists who had either come in from outside or had been groomed internally to grow in a focused area about which they're passionate.

  

  Daniel Lubetzky
  • Team
  • Professional
  • Organization

• If you want someone who is sort of still, has a bit of an edge, is older, you get Morgan Freeman. If you want someone who can carry a gun and still play a father, you get Danny Glover. My category is 'that guy who happens to be black.'

  

  Joe Morton
  • Father
  • Guy
  • Black

• Mission 31 pays homage to my grandfather's work and all aquanauts who have since followed his lead in the name of ocean exploration.

  

  Fabien Cousteau
  • Work
  • Ocean
  • Names

• Today I saw cancer, cigarettes, and shortness of breath. This is why I walk to the ocean. Swim with sharks and jellyfish. I may never get this chance again. This is why if you want to kiss, you should kiss. If you want to cry, you should cry. And if you want to live, you should live. You don't have to love me. You already did.

  

  Ryan Ross Panic! at the Disco
  • Chance
  • Cancer
  • Ocean

• It would be like loving the ocean, but wishing it would change into a glass of water.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Change
  • Water
  • Ocean

• I love staring out toward the ocean and away from anything manmade.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Ocean
  • Staring