Taken Quotes

• I had no future with the Dodgers, because I was too closely identified with Branch Rickey. After the club was taken over by Walter O'Malley, you couldn't even mention Mr. Rickey's name in front of him. I considered Mr. Rickey the greatest human being I had ever known.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Future
  • Name
  • Greatest

• I'm not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see it plastered all over the place.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Alone
  • Picture
  • See

• Firmly I believe and truly God is Three, and God is One;And I next acknowledge duly Manhood taken by the Son.

  

  John Henry Newman
  • God
  • Believe
  • Son

• Take account of your deeds before they are taken account of.

  

  Umar
  • Taken
  • Deeds
  • Accounts

• We're being challenged to do something so profound, it's unprecedented in the history of our species, and there couldn't be more at stake. It's not even our species at stake; it's the whole dream of life on earth that's taken 4.5 billion years to realize - all this beautiful pastoral life on earth.

  

  Anohni
  • Life
  • History
  • Beautiful

• My mother taught me to drive using the 'Detroit Method,' where speed limits and traffic lights are taken as cute suggestions.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Mother
  • Cute
  • Limits

• It is difficult for our youth to want to be active when PE is taken out of our schools.

  

  Katrina Adams
  • Taken

• The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Serious
  • Seriously

• Every time I would give a talk, someone would say, 'You ought to go into politics.' I prefer to call it government leadership. My life has taken me to places where I have experiences that I think I can share. A lot of times, we see people who are career politicians. I'm not the conventional candidate, nor do I want to be.

  

  Brad Wenstrup
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I've taken stuff from people, too. You know though, if you steal from one person, you're just a thief. But if you steal from everyone, that's research.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • People
  • Taken

• Given my last position, that I was the first U.S attorney post 9/11 in New Jersey, I understand acutely the pain and sorrow and upset of the family members who lost loved ones that day at the hands of radical Muslim extremists. And their sensitivities and concerns have to be taken into account.

  

  Chris Christie
  • Family
  • Lost
  • Pain

• You don't talk to a linguist without having what you say taken down and used in evidence against you at some point in time.

  

  David Crystal
  • Time
  • Taken

• I've taken Saturdays to be the day I pull back completely. I do things that are more creative, and I've actually found that helps me when I get back into work to be more thoughtful, and I truly believe that feeding your creative soul is really important to being more analytical.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Important

• I do find it strange, doing magazine shoots. Photographers always go, 'Why don't you like to have your picture taken? That's what you do for a living anyway. Just pretend you're acting. It's the same thing!'

  

  James McAvoy
  • Why
  • Taken
  • Picture

• A new breed of Republicans has taken over the GOP. It is a new breed which is seeking to sell to Americans a doctrine which is as old as mankind - the doctrine of racial division, the doctrine of racial prejudice, the doctrine of white supremacy.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Old
  • Prejudice
  • Racial

• There are many Sheriff Arpaios. People who have taken to local city, county, and state governments across the county the idea that immigrants are the problem. That immigrants are to blame.

  

  Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine
  • People
  • City
  • Blame

• Our tribe unraveled like a coarse rope, frayed at either end as the old and new among us were taken.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Rope
  • Tribe
  • Coarse

• I hate having my picture taken.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Hate
  • Taken
  • Picture

• I don't let my picture be taken. I'm on too many hit lists.

  

  Jack Chick
  • Picture
  • Hit
  • Lists

• It's taken me a long time to get back into the industry. People were not really open to me working, or being a part of the industry.

  

  David Caruso
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I am just this small-town Canberra girl that's taken riding a little kid's bike on dirt tracks to the highest level.

  

  Caroline Buchanan
  • Girl
  • Small
  • Bike

• Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the dishes.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Family
  • Dad
  • Mom

• Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of influencing the election.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Money
  • Purpose
  • Politics

• You're lucky if you reach the point where you go, "OK, I have a wonderful life ...I fly around the world, stay in beautiful places, people are generally quite sweet to me, what's to complain about?" But I think you have to get there... And it's taken me the best part of 54 years to reach that point where I'm like, "I'm very lucky, I'm lucky, I'm blessed" - all of those things. I wish I could impart that to other people but I think when you're young, you just don't listen.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Beautiful

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