Up Quotes

• New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world. The returning troops marched up Fifth Avenue and girls were instinctively drawn East and North toward them - this was the greatest nation and there was gala in the air.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • World
  • Beginning
  • Air

• I lift weights. It's one of the reasons I get up so early.

  

  Betsy Hodges
  • Up

• John Conyers and I were the ones who wrote the bill that provides for Medicare for all. And, so, even though the single-payer plan is not what's before the Congress, to expand Medicare, so that people 55 and up would be - would have the chance to buy in, that's - that would be a step in the right direction, no question about it.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Single
  • Question

• The interesting thing about the Beatles was: The music was one thing, but we kind of symbolized a certain kind of freedom at a time when people of our generation were just growing up and just becoming adults.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• I'm up for doing a part if I thought the part was right and the people want to consider me for a part. If I thought the part was absolutely exciting... I would go for it.

  

  Colm Wilkinson
  • People
  • Up

• Sausage-Seller: You demagogues are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing is good; in the same way it's only in troublous times that you line your pockets. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
  • Up
  • Good
  • Fishing

• You have kids growing up in some of the worst circumstances financially, living in some of the worst ghettos, and they succeed. They succeed because an adult figure, typically a mother, maybe a grandmother, nourishes the kid, supports the kid, protects the kid, encourages the kid to succeed. It's as if the environment never happened.

  

  James Heckman
  • Kids
  • Mother
  • Growing

• My dirty little secret is that I hate running. I don't like cardio. I also really like food, and all kinds of food - bread, chocolate, all of the yummy stuff. I up my cardio quite a bit and I start cutting out carbs, sugar, and salt just to try to get as lean as I can.

  

  Christopher Gorham
  • Hate
  • Food
  • Running

• I went to Ft Bragg and learned that Delta was indeed gearing up for the rescue. Still I was concerned the Reagan staff would not be willing to take the risk of sending an official military force into Laos.

  

  Bo Gritz
  • Up
  • Risk
  • Military

• People with big ideas worry. They lie awake at night and fret as they try to climb up the social or financial ladder. They probably feel proud of themselves for what they've achieved, but I'm proud of the fact that I've done very little - and hence have little to worry about - and I've still got somewhere.

  

  Lisa Jewell
  • People
  • Done
  • Night

• What I like about New York City is nobody cares. If they do, they don't ever approach. They just give you a 'What's up?' and that's it.

  

  Chaske Spencer
  • Up
  • City

• I am not gonna die because some network executive thought I was fat! It's so wrong! It's so wrong that women are asked to live up to this skinny ideal that is totally unattainable. For me to be ten pounds thinner is a full-time job, and I am handing in my notice and walking out the door!!

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Time
  • Live
  • Women

• Boxing makes you kind of tight, so it's really good to mix that with barre, Pilates, or something that'll stretch you out and make you longer. I'm not the person that loves to be in the gym so much. I like to mix it up as much as possible; otherwise, I'll get bored.

  

  Elsa Hosk
  • Good
  • Bored
  • Gym

• There are things I'd wish weren't part of ageing. But what you gain is much more than you're giving up. I don't think you come into your own until you're 35 or so.

  

  Cindy Crawford
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Wish

• It's the idea held by generations of citizens who believed that America is a constant work in progress; who believed that loving this country requires more than singing its praises or avoiding uncomfortable truths. It requires the occasional disruption, the willingness to speak out for what's right, and shake up the status quo.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Country
  • America

• Shivers up and down my spine It's a feeling so divine Let me go back for a while Got to go back for a while To that magic time.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Time
  • Feeling
  • Magic

• Let's be very honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing Democrats, it's not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don't know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up.

  

  Janeane Garofalo
  • History
  • House
  • Black

• We all grow up with inherited genes and inherited sensibilities, and they run very, very deep.

  

  John Lithgow
  • Up
  • Deep

• When you look what is happening in this country with the debt, the deficit, the CBO coming out and saying once again we're going to have a trillion dollar plus deficit in 2012, the fourth straight year, and unemployment may be going back up to 8.9 or maybe nine percent by the end of the year, these are serious situations that are going.

  

  Allen West
  • Country
  • May
  • Serious

• And for me there's still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.

  

  Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead
  • Up

• When you grow up, you think everything you own is going to be designer. Not true. Most of the stuff I own is high-street. I love mixing it up; it's so beautifully made nowadays, and the quality is of such a high standard, and let's be honest: everybody loves a bargain.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • True
  • High
  • Quality

• Think back to yourself at age 18. I know I was mighty different than the Patti I am today. As we grow up, we grow out of our haircuts, our apartments and - often times - our romantic decisions.

  

  Patti Stanger
  • Different
  • Age
  • Today

• I was brought up to believe that it's family first. Of all the people my parents knew, the family was most important. You always turn to your family, and the family supports you. We do what we can to support our young and go and see the grandchildren if they're doing plays at school and their sports events.

  

  Mary Berry
  • People
  • Believe
  • Important

• In any aircraft you fly, you always think about what can go wrong, and you plan for it in advance. You always have back-up plans.

  

  David Mackay
  • Up
  • Fly

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