Center Quotes

• As people of color, we're left out of history. History is sort of told around us. We're bystanders, we're passive, we're observers. We're never the center of our history.

  

  Amma Asante
  • History
  • Center
  • Bystanders

• Find your center and stay there. It will allow you to live your life to its maximum.

  

  Barbara Ann Kipfer
  • Life
  • Center
  • Maximum

• Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Home
  • Joy
  • Center

• I've been director of the center since 1983, and our clients will continue to participate in activities to help them get out of their homes and back into the community. It is important the individuals have contact with others with the same problems and can learn to coordinate activities.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Director
  • Activities
  • Participate

• Please, ground, just open up and let me fall into an endless crevasse till I hit the center of the earth and combust. Please. Is that too much to ask?

  

  Cate Tiernan
  • Fall
  • Ground
  • Open Up

• The new Late Antiquity is in part a deliberate corrective to a previous bias, which assumed that the entire Roman world declined in the fifth century, because this is what happened in the West. Relocating the centre of the world in the fourth to eighth centuries to Egypt, the Levant, and Persia is a stimulating challenge to our mental framework and cultural expectations.

  

  Bryan Ward-Perkins
  • Egypt
  • Late Antiquity
  • Persia

• My center is giving way, my right is pushed back, my left is wavering. The situation is excellent. I shall attack!

  

  James Keller
  • Way
  • Right
  • Left

• Every person draws a map that shows themselves at the center. But that does not mean that no other countries exist.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Person
  • Themselves
  • Map

• It takes great courage and personal strength to hold on to our center during times of great hurt. It takes wisdom to understand that our reactiveness only fans the flames of false drama.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Great
  • Wisdom
  • Hurt

• The good that binds us is Love, it comes from our Soul, it flows through our center, and connects us with everything.

  

  Alex Grey
  • Good
  • Love
  • Soul

• Im one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist. Im just the lucky one to be standing in the center, telling them how to play.

  

  Eugene Ormandy
  • Play
  • Center
  • Violinist

• You have to have a great fielder at shortstop, and you've got to have a guy that has good range and good hands in center field.

  

  Aaron Judge
  • Center
  • Range
  • Fielder

• At the end of the two years that I was the director [of the Center for Reproductive and Sexual Health in Manhattan], we had done 60,000 abortions. [During my life] I myself, with my own hands, have done 5,000 abortions. I have supervised another 10,000 that residents have done under my direction. So I have 75,000 abortions in my life. Those are pretty good credentials to speak on the subject of abortion.

  

  Bernard Nathanson
  • Director
  • Abortion
  • Center

• My thoughts and emotions center on him: there has never been a "you and me," but always "we" and "us".

  

  Gerda Weissmann Klein
  • Thoughts
  • Emotions
  • Center

• Remove the centrality-of-Jesus-Christ message from ministry and meetings, and you can forget church life or organic meetings. He must be the center of everything...not in lip service, but in the dynamic experiential whole.

  

  Gene Edwards
  • Christ
  • Message
  • Center

• Just like those other black holes from outer space, Hollywood is postmodern to this extent: it has no center, only a spreading dead zone of exhaustion, inertia, and brilliant decay.

  

  Arthur Kroker
  • Hollywood
  • Center
  • Black Holes

• This is the iGods’ alluring and dangerous promise—to place us in the center of our own self-reflexive universe. But what if we don’t necessarily know what is best?

  

  Craig Detweiler
  • Universe
  • Promise
  • IGods

• Meditation has really helped with keeping my center.

  

  Ashlee Nicole "Nikki" DeLoach
  • Meditation
  • Center
  • Keeping

• If you’d just center your thoughts and affections upon the Lord, you’d be better off accidentally than you’ve ever been on purpose!

  

  Andrew Wommack
  • Thoughts
  • Lord
  • Center

• Syria is the center of the Arab Orient. It cannot live outside its relationship with the Arabian Peninsula, the Gulf countries, Egypt and others. We need economic and investment support from our fellow Arabs the future. Our future is truly tied to the Arab world and the Gulf in particular.

  

  Burhan Ghalioun
  • Relationship
  • Syria
  • Arab Orient

• I actually worked with an organization called Drama Club that works with incarcerated teens and youth in a detention center and in Rikers Island, which a lot of people don't know that teens have been incarcerated in Rikers Island.

  

  Susan Kelechi Watson
  • Drama
  • Been
  • Actually

• I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being.

  

  Confucius
  • Being
  • I Want
  • Center

• I've never been interested in the event when I'm the center of attention.

  

  Helmut Lang
  • Attention
  • Never
  • Interested

• There comes a moment as a parent when you realize you will no longer be the center of your child's universe.

  

  Carre Otis
  • Child
  • Moment
  • Parent

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