Allowed Quotes

• If I had been white with the things I did, they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Me
  • Never
  • Baseball

• living with a teenage daughter is like living with the Taliban a mum is not allowed to laugh, sing, dance or wear short skirts

  

  Kathy Lette
  • Dance
  • Teenage
  • Skirts

• When I was little, I wasn't allowed to put sugar on my breakfast cereal because it made me so hyper.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Breakfast
  • Allowed
  • Hyper

• When I grew up, I never – I wasn't allowed to go out. I missed my prom because I went to an AAU tournament and all that stuff. For me, it was basketball, basketball, basketball.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Never
  • Basketball
  • Grew

• I am what I am. I love me! And I don't mean that egoistically - I love that God has allowed me to take whatever it was that I had and to make something out of it.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Mean
  • Allowed
  • Egoistically

• Complaining about your luck is not allowed. Rokutarou, you’re not the only one that matters but they leave that aside and do their best.If you start comparing misfortunes, it would never end. What’s the meaning in that? Everyone knows you had a hard time.

  

  Chica Umino
  • Luck
  • Complaining
  • Rokutarou

• What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game...There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Surprising
  • Delightful
  • Spectators

• I was not allowed to take spherical trigonometry because I'd sprained my ankle. Because I'd sprained my ankle, I had an incomplete in gym, phys ed. And the rule was that if you had an incomplete in anything, you were not allowed to take an overload.

  

  William Bradford Shockley Jr.
  • Rule
  • Allowed
  • Spherical

• Being in a boy band you're not allowed to be good at anything. You're not allowed to be talented. You're not really allowed to be a songwriter. You're not allowed to be that good a singer.

  

  Ronan Keating Boyzone
  • To Be
  • Allowed
  • Boy-band

• You wouldn't be allowed to get on a particular bus, but you'd be asked to sign your autograph.

  

  Lena Horne
  • Bus
  • Allowed
  • Autograph

• Work is work if you're paid to do it, and it's a pleasure if you pay to be allowed to do it.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Work
  • Pleasure
  • Paid

• If I had my way, this war would never have been commenced. If I had been allowed my way this war would have been ended before this.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Way
  • Allowed
  • Commenced

• The important question to ask is why these bodies are allowed to exist. If a country such as Spain allowed a repressive body like the Inquisition to exist for four hundred years, it is not because the Inquisition forced itself on the Spanish nation. It is because the Spaniards allowed it to exist.

  

  Cullen Murphy
  • Exist
  • Spain
  • Inquisition

• If it wasn't for those guys, things would still probably be the way they are. The things they accomplished have allowed me to be a ballplayer, so I always respect them for that.

  

  Carl Everett
  • Guys
  • To Be
  • Ballplayer

• In the first half, we allowed them to do whatever they wanted.

  

  Alana Beard
  • Wanted
  • Half
  • Allowed

• I bring my classical training - some of it, but not all of it - and also my background and culture, to spirituals. And I try to leave room for that unpredictable factor, where the feeling of the song is allowed to come through. The same ethos can be applied to singing Mozart, or Schubert, or Bach. It's not just about what's on the page.

  

  Kathleen Battle
  • Leave
  • Page
  • Background

• Sure, I’m sad, but I’m not looking to soothe that sadness by replacing it with a new relationship. Women are allowed to be sad, and they’re allowed to be single, and they don’t need to hear that one day a man is going to make it all go away by telling her she is good enough again. She’s good enough as she is.

  

  Charlotte Green
  • Women
  • Relationship
  • Sadness

• The only thing a star asks is to be allowed to twinkle.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Star
  • Allowed
  • Twinkle

• I allowed myself to relax, and there's just no excuse for it. Anytime you relax on that field, big plays can happen. We can't let that happen in games like this.

  

  Charles Woodson
  • Myself
  • Games
  • Relax

• Compromise cannot be allowed in cases where the exact truth is ascertainable.

  

  Arthur Lynch
  • Truth
  • Compromise
  • Allowed

• After quitting gymnastics in 2000, I was looking for that next thing where I could defy gravity. I was looking for something that had the flipping and the twisting and allowed me to be acrobatic.

  

  David Boudia
  • Something
  • Gymnastics
  • Quitting

• The joy of being a broadcaster is, if you're still allowed to choose your own music.

  

  David Rodigan
  • Being
  • Allowed
  • Broadcaster

• In our desire to have government become our benefactor and sustainer, we have allowed it to become our taskmaster and overlord. As a result, we have become little more than well-fed, well-entertained slaves to the state. Freedom, as envisioned by our forefathers, is gone.

  

  Chuck Baldwin
  • Freedom
  • Government
  • Overlord

• Radio allowed me to be a creator, and TV stole that creation from me by literalizing - and to some extent limiting - my vision.

  

  Spalding Gray
  • Allowed
  • Extent
  • Limiting

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