Sings Quotes

• What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Mother
  • Coffin
  • Way Down

• There was all these old ladies and my mother she was one of them, and they were having you know, kind of a meeting, and she had said to them 'Oh I have a daughter, she can sings very well!' So it was very embarrassing for me.

  

  Marie Fredriksson Roxette
  • Meeting
  • Sings
  • Old Ladies

• The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice of repetitions and commentaries; it is born and takes shape in the interval between books. It is the phenomena of the library.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Reality
  • Opposition
  • Imaginary

• I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Street

• I happen to be a guy who also plays the piano and sings, so people automatically associate me with Billy Joel.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • People
  • Piano
  • Plays

• So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Actor
  • Singer
  • Sings

• Star Anna is an American original. She sings from a place of beauty that takes me to a higher place.

  

  Mike McCready Pearl Jam
  • Beauty
  • Sings
  • American Original

• The flaw in the pluralist heaven is that the heavenly chorus sings with a strong upper-class accent.

  

  Elmer Eric Schattschneider
  • Heaven
  • Accent
  • Sings

• I really don't want my daughters to know me for being that guy who sings songs.

  

  Dan Reynolds Imagine Dragons
  • Guy
  • Songs
  • Daughters

• A black face, run-down shoes and elbow-out make-up give me a place to hide. The real Bert Williams is crouched deep down inside the coon who sings the songs and tells the stories.

  

  Bert Williams
  • Up
  • Real
  • Black

• I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour!

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Honour
  • Heroism
  • Sings

• Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.

  

  Confucius
  • Rule
  • Laws
  • Sings

• Almost no one sings like Elvis Presley any more.

  

  Sonny Bono Sonny & Cher
  • Sings

• No ladder needs the bird but skies To situate its wings, Nor any leaders grim baton Arraigns it as it sings.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Needs
  • Bird
  • Sings

• Every day, my mom and I would watch a different Judy Garland VHS. I love how she tells a story when she sings. It was just about her voice and the words she was singing - no strings attached or silly hair or costumes, just a woman singing her heart out. I feel like that doesn't happen that much anymore.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Mom
  • Like
  • Feel

• Grace Kelly writes great songs, sings beautifully, is a world class saxophonist, and is going to be a big big star

  

  Hugh Anthony Cregg III Clover
  • Star
  • Songs
  • Writes

• There still shines the most important nuance by virtue of which the noble felt themselves to be men of a higher rank. They designate themselves simply by their superiority in power (as "the powerful," "the masters," "the commanders") or by the most clearly visible signs of this superiority, for example, as "the rich," "the possessors" (this is the meaning of 'Arya,' and of corresponding words in Iranian and Slavic).

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Superiority
  • Sings
  • Nuance

• Every bird that sings, sings for you. Every breeze that blows, blows for you. Every sunray shines for you. If you only knew how loved you are....

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Bird
  • Sings
  • Shines

• A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Friends
  • Father
  • Child

• Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.

  

  Plato
  • Heart
  • Sings
  • Whispers

• Shining in the midnight moonlight, while the King sings love me tender.

  

  Laurie Anderson
  • King
  • Moonlight
  • Sings

• Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama depicts life. The characteristic of the first poetry is ingeniousness, of the second, simplicity, of the third, truth.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Poetry
  • Sings

• The Imagination that is raised in man (or any other creature imbued with the faculty of imagining) by words, or other voluntary signs, is that we generally call Understanding; and is common to Man and Beasts.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Imagination
  • Sings
  • Beasts

• With the capacity to represent the world in signs and symbols comes the capacity to change it, which, as it happens, is also the capacity to destroy it. A tiny set of genetic variations divides us from the Neanderthals, but that has made all the difference.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Change
  • Destroy
  • Variations

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