Up Quotes

• I see you around sometimes and my heart just melts. You're looking like if you had your wish, you'd be somewhere else. And it just breaks my heart to see you here this way. Someday I'll get the nerve to walk up to you and say This is the last worthless evening that you'll have to spend. Just gimme a chance to show you how to love again.

  

  Don Henley The Eagles
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Wish

• There is the morass, wherein you plunge up to your knees, or the walking over the stubborn, dwarfish shrubbery, whereby one treads down the forests of Labrador; and the unexpected bunting or sylvia which perchance, and indeed as if by chance alone, you now and then see flying before you, or hear singing from the ground creeping plant.

  

  John James Audubon
  • Alone
  • Singing
  • Walking

• I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.

  

  Jerome K. Jerome
  • Life
  • House
  • Rest

• I didn't know that my son had allergies until he spit up eggs one day, and one day he had a little peanut butter and his face swelled up. I took him to get tested and found out that he is allergic to everything.

  

  Kym Whitley
  • Up
  • Son

• I grew up in a martial arts gym surrounded by men and boys, and I pretty much call myself a tomboy.

  

  Katheryn Winnick
  • Men
  • Pretty
  • Gym

• Opening up Atlantic and Arctic waters to drilling would lock the next generation into burning oil and gas in a way that only makes climate change that much worse, fueling ever rising seas, widening deserts, withering drought, blistering heat, raging storms, wildfires, floods and other hallmarks of climate chaos.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Change
  • Chaos
  • Generation

• He didn't even take up golf because it would take away time from his family or children or grandchildren. He was completely selfless.

  

  Charles Edwards
  • Time
  • Children
  • Family

• I remember one game when I pitched in Yankee Stadium and gave up five runs in the first inning. It would have been easy to quit, but I shut 'em out the rest of the way, and we came back and won the game.

  

  Hal Newhouser
  • Remember
  • Game
  • Rest

• Wherever there's an all-encompassing 'always,' 'all' or 'never' in your life, it's a sign that your mischievous subconscious is setting you up for failure by consistently leading you back toward these repeat performances.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • You
  • Failure

• I grew up on, and kind of came of age, during the grunge movement and was introduced to Neil Young and Bob Dylan and grew up on that path.

  

  James Edward Olliges Jr.
  • Age
  • Path
  • Grunge

• All I ever wanted to do was stand-up. It kind of charges me and gives me a rush.

  

  Kevin Nealon
  • Up

• An audience can really lift you right up off the stage.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • You
  • Stage
  • Lift

• As a kid growing up, I put a lot of pressure on myself.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Growing
  • Myself
  • Growing Up

• Everybody nose dive, hold your breath, count to five. Back slap, booby trap, cover it up in bubble wrap. Room shake, earth quake, find a way to stay awake. It's going to blow, it's going to break, this is more than I can take.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Earth
  • Poetry
  • Blow

• At one point, there wasn't a black quarterback in the NFL. When you start winning, then you start seeing more. Jumping up and down and screaming and calling people names is not going to change anything.

  

  Antoine Fuqua
  • People
  • Black
  • Winning

• The first time I ever got up on a stage, I did a comedy poem. I don't know how I got there in the first place because I was very, very shy.

  

  Lesley Nicol
  • Up
  • Time
  • Comedy

• If you bleed Black Label and you're going to be a man, you gotta get up there and do what you gotta do every day, relentless and as tired as you can be.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Man
  • Black
  • Day

• I've spent most of my life doing some sort of exercise, but I've learned to never push myself into doing it. I know that when I am up for it I will, and when I'm not in the mood to, I don't make myself feel badly over it.

  

  Samaire Armstrong
  • Life
  • Myself
  • Exercise

• You said  Remember that life is Not meant to be wasted  We can always be chasing the sun  So fill up your lungs and just-run!  We can always be chasing the sun

  

  Sara Bareilles
  • Life
  • Up
  • Sun

• I came up with this statistic that if a kid makes something himself, he's 90 to 95% likely to try it. And of course, then, if it's good, he'll eat it!

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Good
  • Try
  • Kid

• When we talk about compassion we talk in terms of being kind. But compassion is not so much being kind; it is being creative [enough] to wake a person up.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Person
  • Compassion
  • Being Kind

• Publishers were ever eager for authors to do their own publicity because nobody else was willing to do it for nothing. But then it became clear that if you want somebody to champion the story, there's nobody better than the person who made it all up.

  

  Dave Morris
  • Up
  • Champion

• Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Up
  • Remember

• I grew up looking at National Geographic. I always wondered who was taking the photos and how.

  

  Jimmy Chin
  • Up

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