Archie Manning Quotes

People say how unbelievable and enjoyable this whole thing must be. But watching your children play quarterback, putting themselves on the line every game, getting smacked around and bloodied up... it's very, very hard.

Archie Manning

• Children
• Hard
• Quarterback

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• I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Up
  • America
  • Freedom

• The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Country
  • Interest
  • Debt

• We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Morning
  • Never
  • Before

• If we were handling a bomb which could go off at any minute as a result of our actions, we would mind ourselves and be delicate. Our words have the same power, yet we wield them around as though they were powerless and insignificant.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Mind
  • Power
  • Words

• On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • True
  • Die
  • Play

• The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Always
  • Actions
  • Brainy

• Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • School
  • Parents
  • Faith

• I pick and choose my battles, but I overthink everything because I have to think about everything.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Think
  • Everything
  • Choose

• However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • May
  • American
  • Language

• I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Learned
  • Keep
  • Got

• An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • American
  • Alone
  • Dark

• I want to play Eva Peron. I've already done a lot of Shakespeare, but I'd like to do Lady Macbeth.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Done
  • Want
  • Like

• I don't have any stigma attached to my body. When I'm in my own private space, I have very little on.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Space
  • Body
  • Own

• Cursing is highly effective in person - someone kicks his car in rage, forgetting he's wearing flip-flops, flames pour from his mouth, and it's impressive. But you see it in print, and it's just ugly.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Car
  • See
  • Ugly

• For me, when I grew up playing music, I played music in church and people were shouting and having a big time, and church wasn't something where it was subdued. If you played something, you brought it to church with you.

  

  Randy Owen
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I try to eat fruit and be healthy.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Try
  • Healthy
  • Fruit

• I did not expect to encounter what has beset me since my elevation to the presidency. God knows, I have endeavored to fulfill what I considered to be an honest duty, but I have been mistaken; my motives have been misconstrued and my feelings grossly betrayed.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • God
  • Me
  • Feelings

• Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939 for a nice partner to come along. It became an electric rhythm section, and that changed everything.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Nice
  • Rock
  • Waiting

• When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of its prosperity, or of a greater stock being employed in it than before.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Stock

• Deep down, I think I would be utterly miserable in Hollywood.

  

  Lindsay Duncan
  • Deep

• I've worked hard and accomplished what I've accomplished in the heavyweight scene.

  

  Lennox Lewis
  • Hard
  • Worked
  • Accomplished

• The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is one of the relatable things - dealing with failures and missteps in life - and it's something that's so rarely dealt with in movies, especially kids' movies.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Life
  • Character
  • Kids

• People say how unbelievable and enjoyable this whole thing must be. But watching your children play quarterback, putting themselves on the line every game, getting smacked around and bloodied up... it's very, very hard.

  

  Archie Manning
  • Children
  • Hard
  • Quarterback