Patrick Henry Quotes

I want to be like a sunflower; so that even on the darkest days I will stand tall and find the sunlight.

Patrick Henry

• Sunflower

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportunity.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Time
  • Great
  • Man

• The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Strategy

• The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Important
  • Man
  • Opportunity

• I really like structured coats and layered scarves, and I especially love cashmere sweaters.

  

  Tamara Feldman
  • Love
  • Like
  • Coats

• For the first time people in the south stopped calling for separation, raised the national flag and demanded an end to the regime. It's been truly historic. The country is united in its aim to rid itself of the regime through public vigils and rallies, civil disobedience and slogans instead of tear gas and bullets.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• If you were just to look at Lockheed Martin, you'd see a lot of women in senior roles in our company and, not only that, our customers, so I don't consider it an old boys' club.

  

  Marillyn Hewson
  • Women
  • Senior

• It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

  

  Jerome K. Jerome
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Liar

• With land-roaming animals, I've just read so much about the sophistication of their emotional lives and their intelligence and the way they process information that betrays a greater intelligence.

  

  Bryan Fuller
  • Emotional

• I really have a deep sense of caring about the air that we breathe and the water that we drink. I want to be able to say that I was trying to protect that. And I also care deeply about children. My children, all children. And I care deeply about giving back.

  

  Christie Brinkley
  • Children
  • Trying
  • Giving

• My definition of sexy is someone who is expressing themselves honestly.

  

  Alex Meraz
  • Sexy

• There's nothing worse than seeing your teammates battle, knowing you can't help.

  

  Nelson Cruz
  • Help

• We don't notice that our cells are turning over all the time. You get a completely new composition of cells every seven years, and on the surface, or subjectively, it looks as though you're the same for seven years. It's like a ground - it looks stable, but beneath it, everything is shifting all the time. It's exciting and dangerous.

  

  Alexandra Kleeman
  • Time

• My life is cinematic in some ways.

  

  Arjun Kapoor
  • Life

• Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

  

  Epictetus
  • Great

• Most of the time, I grill over high heat. I like things to move fast. I like the sound and smell of a very hot fire. I gravitate towards dishes that you can get on and off the grill as quickly as possible. After a while, you'll know without thinking about it how hot the fire is.

  

  Bobby Flay
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • High

• Every quarter, we give an award for a breakthrough idea even if it doesn't make it to market.

  

  Dinesh Paliwal

• Corporations today, by their razor sharp focus on the 'bottom line' and quarterly earnings, have lost their ability to innovate.

  

  John Maeda
  • Today
  • Lost
  • Focus

• Stay true to yourself because a lot of times women get so wrapped up in doing for a man that we forget to focus on us. A lot of times that is unattractive. They love us because we are independent and focused on the things that make us happy. Because when they see you happy, their happy!

  

  Gabrielle Dennis
  • Up
  • Women
  • True

• A rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose. All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that's like woman too.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Beautiful
  • Flower
  • Rose

• I think every child deserves a family as loving and committed as mine. Because the sense of family comes from the commitment we make to each other to work through the hard times so we can enjoy the good ones. It comes from the love that binds us; that's what makes a family. My family is just as real as yours.

  

  Zacharia Wahls
  • Good
  • Work
  • Real

• If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that - agent and patient at once.

  

  Aristotle
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Man

• When every card in the deck is stacked against you, the only way to win a hand is to break the rules. You beg, borrow, and steal, as the old adage goes, and if you happen to get caught in the act, at least you´ve gone down fighting the good fight.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Fighting
  • Winning
  • Break

• I want to be like a sunflower; so that even on the darkest days I will stand tall and find the sunlight.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Sunflower