Buck Brannaman Quotes

Someone might steal your childhood, but they can't steal your will. There is a point where you're given the opportunity in life to stop blaming everyone else and start taking responsibility for your life.

Buck Brannaman

• Life
• Opportunity
• Childhood
• Will

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I love my wife, I love my kids.

  

  Ted McGinley
  • Love
  • Kids
  • Wife

• I had this 'War and Peace' thing of wanting to experience war as a kind of incredible human enterprise. I even applied to Officer Candidate School. Then the practical side of me kicked in and I thought, 'I really don't want to get drafted.' So I went down to the physical and checked every psychological disorder and drug on the medical history form.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • School
  • Experience
  • War

• Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Books

• Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Business
  • Career
  • Tennis

• President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • People
  • Great
  • Help

• During the Cold War, the U.S. instituted a policy of sending money to governments in poor countries to buy their political loyalty. While studies show that sending aid to foreign governments creates allegiance, it does not lead to economic progress.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • Money
  • War
  • Political

• The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • People
  • Kind
  • Audience

• Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Guy
  • Food
  • Change

• My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • World
  • War
  • Father

• I would say issues around human rights - either you're going to take a hard stance, or you're not. You can't borrow money from China the way the U.S. has done and then turn around and say, 'But you've got a human-rights problem.' You can't be half pregnant.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Money
  • Done
  • Problem

• To be honest, I owned one suit before I filmed 'Mad Men' - the one suit that you have to have as an adult. Outside of that, I never really felt comfortable in a suit.

  

  Aaron Staton
  • Men
  • Never
  • Mad

• Actors are intelligent. Yet, many of them do not communicate well. That's what makes it so hard to have a relationship with one.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Relationship
  • Intelligent

• I'm normally the least busy person I know.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Know
  • Person
  • Busy

• To you, W. B. Yeats, good praiser, wholesome dispraiser, heavy-handed judge, open-handed helper of us all, I offer a play of my plays for every night of the week, because you like them, and because you have taught me my trade.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Good
  • Night
  • Judge

• I've had a long line of failed television programs, pilots that were never picked up, series that didn't go very long. I've learned that there's really nothing you can do. If it's not in my control, I try not to worry about it.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Up
  • Long
  • Control

• When we play at the World Cup, any African will back any African team. Because we want to hear the different approach to African football. We want to hear that Africans can do well, and Africans do well.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • World
  • Different
  • Team

• The family uses people, not for what they are, nor for what they are intended to be, but for what it wants them for - its own uses. It thinks of them not as what God has made them, but as the something which it has arranged that they shall be.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • People
  • God
  • Family

• Idealism is based on big ideas. And, as anybody who has ever been asked 'What's the big idea?' knows, most big ideas are bad ones.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Bad

• Now that it's officially summer, here's my advice to parents who want to continue teaching their kids during the next two months and learn something themselves: visit Civil War battlefields.

  

  Marvin Olasky
  • Kids
  • War
  • Parents

• I'm having a vacation, and it's so beautiful, and maybe I'll never get another film idea in my life.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Vacation

• I had now been in the United States of America something like five years, working here and there as the inclination seized me, which, I must confess, was not often. I was certainly getting some enjoyment out of life, but now and then the waste of time appalled me, for I still have a conviction that I was born to a different life.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• When you watch someone on TV go through something that you're going through that's difficult, it lets you know that you're not alone, and there's nothing to be ashamed of.

  

  Kether Donohue
  • Alone

• Someone might steal your childhood, but they can't steal your will. There is a point where you're given the opportunity in life to stop blaming everyone else and start taking responsibility for your life.

  

  Buck Brannaman
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Childhood