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.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Problems
  • Because
  • Grow

• 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

• 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

• In northern architecture - the cathedrals of Europe and all the little churches - the details, the carving of stone, become necessary because the light is not there to help you very much. You have to enrich surfaces. The desert reduces form to its simplest nature. There is no need for gargoyles or flying buttresses in the desert.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Help
  • Nature
  • Light

• A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Alone
  • Child
  • Empathy

• This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Country
  • Government

• I believe the power to make money is a gift of God … to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind. Having been endowed with the gift I possess, I believe it is my duty to make money and still more money and to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience.

  

  John D. Rockefeller
  • Good
  • God
  • Believe

• Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Life
  • Business

• Christianity, … welcomed at first among the religions of escape, changes into a religion that gives cohesion to society

  

  Jacques Ellul
  • Society

• If we have major geographic areas within our continent that have a tremendous lack of economic opportunity, we found that that is going to produce instability economic, political and social.

  

  William Weld
  • Political
  • Opportunity
  • Economic

• 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