Stuart Adamson Quotes

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

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

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Problems
  • Because
  • Grow

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

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Flower

• I have to grow with my audience.

  

  Ice T
  • Audience
  • Grow

• A desert is a place without expectation.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Place
  • Desert
  • Expectation

• 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.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Up
  • Long
  • Night

• 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.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Light
  • Perfect
  • Desert

• 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
  • Up
  • You
  • Know

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

  

  Sally Field
  • Up
  • Time
  • Drama

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

  

  Rain Phoenix
  • People
  • Grow
  • Projects

• 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
  • Mother

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

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • People
  • Star
  • Grow

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

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • People
  • World
  • Team

• Just let your skin breathe.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Breathe
  • Just
  • Skin

• 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
  • Criticism

• The Flower that once has blown forever dies.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Forever
  • Flower
  • Once

• 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
  • Mind
  • Way
  • Speech

• 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

• It is important for a father who feels pushed away to say, in effect, 'When you do that, I feel unwanted as a father,' or 'I feel my rough-housing is not bad parenting; it's my contribution to helping our child take risks.' Women cannot hear what men do not say. – page 105.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Important
  • Women

• Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Trying
  • Today
  • Die

• My character in 'Shame' is an outrageous person. Loud and uncompromising and I begged Steve McQueen to give me the job.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • Character
  • Job
  • Person

• If we have no inner peace, we deceive ourselves into thinking that comfort and prosperity will bring happiness.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Thinking
  • Peace
  • Happiness

• When I get in the car I love my wife and kids more than anything, but I'm not thinking about that side of things. I'm thinking about the car, I'm thinking about the race and I'm thinking about how to make the car faster.

  

  Scott Dixon
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Wife

• 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