Stuart Adamson Quotes

Im not expecting to grow flowers in the desert, but I can live, and breathe, and see the sun in wintertime.

Stuart Adamson Big Country

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• It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

  

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• The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

  

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• I have to grow with my audience.

  

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• A desert is a place without expectation.

  

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• My evening really begins when I take a long, hot bath. I light a candle, and I turn on the news and try to catch up. It's when I can breathe from the day to the night, and that means a lot to me.

  

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• The Pyramids are perfect, but you can't put the Pyramids in the middle of Manhattan. In the desert, the combination of light and form makes it perfect.

  

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• I couldn't breathe. I - I went into - literally, my kidneys stopped functioning. They stopped, you know, processing the fluid that was starting to build up in my body.

  

  Natalie Cole
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• I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.

  

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• Whether I am collaborating with different people, I like changing projects conceptually so I can grow.

  

  Rain Phoenix
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• A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Love
  • May
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• I don't want to be a 'teen star' because so many people don't ever grow out of that.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • People
  • Star
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• The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

  

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  • World
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• Just let your skin breathe.

  

  Felicity Huffman
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  • Just
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• Even though you're married, you're still individuals. You still have to grow and nurture your individuality.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • You
  • Grow
  • Individuals

• I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Democracy
  • Lies
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• The Flower that once has blown forever dies.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Forever
  • Flower
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• I'm part of a speech therapy programme called the McGuire Programme. It teaches you a new way to breathe, a new way to speak, a brand new way of tackling the mind-sets that come with having a speech impediment. Mainly, it teaches you how to slow things down, and that has really helped me.

  

  Gareth Gates
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• I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Beautiful
  • Poetry
  • Enjoy

• I'm selling evolution. You grow or you die.

  

  Eddie Bravo
  • Grow
  • Evolution
  • Selling

• I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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  • Time
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• The Pink Panther is legendary, but a lot of people my age haven't ever seen the original. So, I think it's great to bring it back for my generation, and to expose them to where that theme song which still sounds so modern and that legendary image of a pink cat came from. It's great to be a part of that, because it's history.

  

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• I'm from the Madeleine L'Engle school. The more she delves into science, the more she knows there's a creator who's behind these amazing laws, these amazing events. The symmetry of nature, the structure and order of it.

  

  Tom Shadyac
  • School
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• Forensics had taught her that scars left tissue much tougher than skin.

  

  Alane Ferguson
  • Skin
  • Scars
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• Im not expecting to grow flowers in the desert, but I can live, and breathe, and see the sun in wintertime.

  

  Stuart Adamson Big Country
  • Flower
  • Breathe
  • Grow