Above Quotes - page 89

I come from a family of professional dog-showers, one step above carnies, but I didn't want to join the family business. (Rebel Wilson)
My mum and dad ran a family cafe in Sligo for 35 years and worked long hours. We grew up in a very hard-working family and had a lovely atmosphere, as we lived above the restaurant. It definitely made me want to work hard, whatever I chose to do. As the baby of seven kids, I was definitely a bit spoilt. View quote
Shane Filan
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it. View quote
Sharon Salzberg
I certainly never get above my station - my family would soon slap me back down to earth. View quote
Sheridan Smith
I think music should be judged on what it is. It should be very high and above everything else. It is a beautiful way of bringing people together, a little bit of an oasis in this messed-up world. View quote
Sonny Rollins
Ideally, I'd like every issue to include a diverse group of stories that meet the qualifications sketched above, but covering a wide range of specific matter and flavour. View quote
Stanley Schmidt
There is nothing in the company that is either above or below me, as far as I'm concerned. View quote
Sanjay Kumar
The thing about fashion - it's like ducks going quack, quack quack. It's being dictated from above, and it just makes me want to rebel against it. View quote
Sara Blakely
The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do. View quote
Sarah Ban Breathnach
Im going to always rise above the doubt that may exist about me. View quote
T.I.
My father valued patriotism above all other social obligations, but he had his own particular interpretation of just how true patriotism was meant to function. (Thomas Steinbeck)
I have done research about people who think they're doing movements and people - like Madonna and professional dancers - who are actually 'performing' movements. The people who can connect and perform during their workout get results way above and beyond the people who are just going through the motions. View quote
Tracy Anderson
You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings. View quote
Tami Hoag
With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all conditions, that everywhere the earth is below and the sky above, and to the energetic man, every region is his fatherland. View quote
Tycho Brahe
Above all, we shall wage no more unilateral, ill-planned, ill-considered, and ill-prepared invasions of foreign countries that pose no actual threat to our security. View quote
Theodore C. Sorensen
I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge. View quote
Theodore White
When you do a movie in the studio system, there's a committee. A committee of six or seven people you answer to. There's two or three producers, a studio executive and one or two people above that studio executive. View quote
Thomas Lennon
That is the future, and it is probably nearer than we think. But our primary problem as universities is not engineering that future. We must rise above the obsession with quantity of information and speed of transmission, and recognize that the key issue for us is our ability to organize this information once it has been amassed to assimilate it, find meaning in it, and assure its survival for use by generations to come. View quote
Vartan Gregorian
Ireland, in breadth, and for wholesomeness and serenity of climate, far surpasses Britain; for the snow scarcely ever lies there above three days: no man makes hay in the summer for winter's provision, or builds stables for his beasts of burden... the island abounds in milk and honey. View quote
Venerable Bede
Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially. View quote
Vicente Fox
In Romania, we have pledged to create a modern public service: well-educated, appropriately rewarded and above all, de-politicized. (Victor Ponta)
A reflection of an exact image is the closest thing to you-so that you can see it-but it's far enough away so that you really understand it. There is real life in this movie, but it hovers just an inch above reality. View quote
Wes Bentley
I think that America in general is piratical. Every time we accept a paycheck for doing almost nothing, allowing us to live above the poverty line, we're engaging in piracy. View quote
Will Oldham
In the road ships must ride in 30, 40, or 50 fathom water, not above half a mile from the shore at farthest: and if there are many ships they must ride close one by another. View quote
William Dampier
I think I will be able to, in the end, rise above the clouds and climb the stairs to Heaven, and I will look down on my beautiful life. View quote
Yayoi Kusama