Up Quotes

• I grew up in Michigan, in a very small town, Centreville. In my graduating class, I had like 92 people.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • People
  • Small
  • Like

• Having a baby is a life-changer. It gives you a whole other perspective on why you wake up every day.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • Life
  • Why
  • Day

• I grew up in a school that had a big music program, and it was incredible. It's what I looked forward to during the day. I had chorus, strings, band.

  

  Alison Krauss
  • Music
  • School
  • Band

• You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • You
  • Motivational
  • Beat

• Almost 24 million children - one in three - are likely growing up without their father involved in their lives.

  

  Arne Duncan
  • Children
  • Father
  • Growing

• Well, I just want him to grow up happy. That's the main thing.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Up
  • Happy

• The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Different
  • Country
  • War

• After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Up

• Even a liberal city will have a prehistoric homophobe. After a show in Washington State, this guy came up to me and said, 'Your shows was a lot funnier before you started in on your agenda.' I told him, 'Please, please keep people like you from coming to my show. I'm glad you had a bad time.'

  

  James Adomian
  • People
  • Time
  • Bad

• I grew up at a time with androgyny in the 1980s; it was easy to pass under the radar as a gay may.

  

  Alexis Arquette
  • Time
  • May
  • Gay

• Might have been the moonlight,Caught up in the sparkle in your eyes.So wicked and I know I should go slow but it's not in me to wait.Cause I'm alive and I'm on fire.Shot like a starburst into the sky.And the fury of desire it burns so bright electrifiesYou light me up, you take me higher.

  

  Sarah McLachlan
  • Light
  • Desire
  • Eyes

• I was a vegetarian for 10 years and a pescetarian for eight. Then I woke up one day when I was 29 and craved red meat. I'm a big believer in listening to my body's cravings.

  

  Chelsea Clinton
  • Up
  • Listening
  • Red

• Some of my clothes are things that we'd play dress up with when we were little, and it's funny that now I'm wearing it, like, as an everyday thing. But if I say 'vintage' or 'thrifted' on the blog, there's this community of fashion bloggers, and I've become sort of tight with some of them, and we, like, just send each other packages.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Funny
  • Community
  • Fashion

• Someone told me something that stuck with me: 'You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.' I've been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I'm just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

  

  Bruno Mars
  • Life
  • Up
  • Trying

• No, In fairy talesWhen to the ill-starred Prince the lady says'I love you!' all his ugliness fades fast - But I remain the same, up to the last!

  

  Edmond Rostand
  • Up
  • Prince

• There are a lot of funny people in my family. Absolutely. There were a lot of jokes growing up around the dinner table, for sure. We didn't grow up in a creative family.

  

  Nate Corddry
  • People
  • Family
  • Growing

• Growing up in Canada, I dated a few ice hockey players.

  

  Katherine Ryan
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Hockey

• If the assembled company rags you for a failing, you can usually play up to it for comic effect: it's the failing they don't mention that you have to watch out for.

  

  Clive James
  • Up

• I have seen things few of my countrymen have. The first time I went on an aeroplane I couldn't work out how the lavatories worked up in the sky.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Time
  • Work
  • Sky

• I'm a single child. I wanted a little brother or a little sister growing up, but when I think about it, I'm happy I'm an only child.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Happy
  • Growing
  • Single

• Keep rockin', and keep knockin' Whether you Louis Vuitton it up or Reebokin' You see the hate, that they're servin' on a platter So what we gon' have, dessert or disaster?

  

  Kanye West
  • Up
  • Hate

• My dog Jake ran up to Dolly Parton, and he put his nose up her skirt. We were like, 'Oh my God, don't do that.' I didn't know Dolly, and she said, 'Watch out there little doggie, don't start something you can't finish.'

  

  Dierks Bentley
  • God
  • She
  • Dog

• Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.

  

  Thomas Edward Brown
  • Giving
  • Literature
  • Mirror

• The SEC has actually progressively loosened up the rules and recognized the value of social media, but the goal is always going to be to get information out as broadly as possible as quickly as possible.

  

  Mary Schapiro
  • Up
  • Value

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