Ricky Williams (Errick Lynne "Ricky" Williams Jr.) Quotes

I don't think people change. I think they definitely mature. But I think the essence of what I am today is the same as when I was five years old. It's just maturity. I've become a healthier, fuller expression of that essence.

Ricky Williams

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• No one would feel embarrassed about seeking help for a child if they broke their arm - and we really should be equally ready to support a child coping with emotional difficulties.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Help
  • Support
  • Emotional

• I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Goal
  • Senate
  • Emissions

• I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Fan
  • Huge

• We are confident that shared values of Wockhardt Hospitals and Fortis Healthcare will form the basis for our continued success in the future.

  

  Malvinder Mohan Singh
  • Future
  • Success
  • Health care

• People frequently ask me if adverse criticism bothers me. I've had a lot of it, and I have been able to shrug most of it off.

  

  Warren Giles
  • People
  • Criticism
  • Adverse

• I am not the first player to have sworn on TV and I won't be the last.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Player
  • TV
  • Sworn

• The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • History
  • First
  • Civilization

• Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Financial
  • Priorities
  • Top

• I think it's just my nature to stay on the outside so that I can understand and observe.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • Nature

• I grew up in an environment in Birmingham that was really multicultural, with black kids, Irish kids, Indian kids.

  

  David Harewood
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Black

• I was surrounded by a lot of people not doing what they wanted to do.

  

  Joe Penny
  • People

• Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.

  

  Neil Simon
  • Money

• It's weird, man. I've had a weird life, and I don't want to end up on the dole. I'm fed up with the plumbing. And I think it would be good to be a little pop star again.

  

  Brian Harvey
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• Mention the name George W. Bush in mixed company, and you're likely to spark a lot of debate and emotion - hot and cold, good and bad. Not a lot of neutral reaction. He was elected in the most controversial contest in American electoral history and governed during one of the most tumultuous decades.

  

  Mark McKinnon
  • Good
  • American
  • Bad

• Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, and promote the general welfare. Taxes protect property and the environment; taxes make business possible. Taxes pay for roads and schools and bridges and police and teachers. Taxes pay for doctors and nursing homes and medicine.

  

  Jill Lepore
  • Business
  • Environment
  • Police

• Night after night I could feel the chills go up and down my spine, they played so well.

  

  Lawrence Welk
  • Up
  • Night

• I'm action-oriented.

  

  Anne Wojcicki
  • Action

• Growing up in Buffalo, you always hated the Dolphins, but I just remember my one friend always liked the opposite team, and he liked the Dolphins, so I remember always going at it with him.

  

  Dan Gronkowski
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Growing

• A good comedian can say things funny and other guys just say funny things.

  

  Fred Allen
  • Good
  • Funny

• Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Life
  • Focus
  • Happiness

• Fear was there, too, cold and hot at the same time, making everything in the plain room sharper, with fewer shadows.

  

  Allison Brennan
  • Fear
  • Room
  • Shadows

• Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Food
  • Evil
  • Personality

• For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • Time
  • World
  • History

• I don't think people change. I think they definitely mature. But I think the essence of what I am today is the same as when I was five years old. It's just maturity. I've become a healthier, fuller expression of that essence.

  

  Ricky Williams