I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and all of those sounds and souls of Motown filled the house.
~ Jay-Z
When I was boxing I made five million and wound up broke, owing the government a million.
~ Joe Louis
It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
~ Ian Mclagan
If I had been on 'Bowling for Dollars', I'd wind up owing them money.
~ Ricki Lake
No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money.
~ Samuel Gompers
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
~ Tom Wilson
I grew up on the back of a motorcycle - my dad didn't have a car until I was a teenager.
~ Aisha Tyler
Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.
~ Erma Bombeck
I grew up listening to show tunes in the back of the car.
~ Daniel Radcliffe
The Nobel Peace Prize opened up a door in my heart.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
Life is made up of marble and mud.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
~ O. Henry
Smile. It instantly lifts the face, and it just lights up the room.
~ Christie Brinkley
I wasn't smart enough to read relationship books when I was coming up. I learned everything the hard way.
~ Michael Ealy
Being grown up and in a serious relationship, I've learned so much. I'm happier than I've every been.
~ Paris Hilton
In a relationship you have to open yourself up.
~ Neil Labute
Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.
~ Jon Bon Jovi
I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough - when they are on the very brink of success.
~ Joyce Meyer
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up.
~ Keith Haring
The health industry, the fitness industry, was really starting to pick up. This was around the mid 80's.
~ Warren Cuccurullo
Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen.
~ Jeff Cooper
With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change.
~ Arne Jacobsen
Change is unavoidable. You change either to stay ahead or to catch up.
~ Mike Hawkins
Dressing up. People just don't do it anymore. We have to change that.
~ John Galliano
I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs.
~ Frank Langella
As you heat the planet up, it's just like boiling a pot.
~ Elon Musk
If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too.
~ Nina Fedoroff
Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.
~ Herb Caen
A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
~ H. L. Mencken
We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells.
~ Paul Mccartney
It was only literally hours after the wedding when he felt he didn't have to keep up the facade.
~ Trisha Goddard
I took up arms for the freedom of my color. It is our own - we will defend it or perish.
~ Toussaint Louverture
I have tasted freedom. I will not give up that which I have tasted.
~ Harvey Milk
There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.
~ Neil Gaiman
I was built up from my dad more than anyone else.
~ John Wooden
My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more.
~ Karin Slaughter
I grew up in Birmingham, but my parents are originally from Barbados. My dad, Romeo, was a long-distance lorry driver, and my mother, Mayleen, worked in catering.
~ David Harewood
I grew up with a truck. My dad had one, so I like trucks.
~ Lucas Till
I grew up watching my dad be a singer, so it's something I've always been interested in.
~ Sofia Richie
