Top 160 Quotes & Sayings by Christy Turlington
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American model Christy Turlington.
Last updated on December 3, 2024.
I like the big questions.
I have lots of other mountains that I would like to climb. I have no dream of Everest, but there are some, like Mount Fuji, I'd like to do.
I'm not a morning person.
I have a beer belly.
Yoga puts me in a place that is a little bit less about doing and more about being, which enables me, in fact, to do more.
Every Mother Counts is a nonprofit organization dedicated to making pregnancy and childbirth safe for every mother. We inform, engage, and mobilize audiences to take action and raise funds that support maternal health programs around the world.
A lot of people have questioned how yoga and their own spiritual beliefs can come together. Yoga actually pre-dates religion.
In my teen years, I was hanging out with adults - Steven Meisel, Francois Nars, Oribe, Paul Cavaco. We had so much fun! We'd go out in New York.
Pranayama is the practice of breath control. The word prana refers not only to breath, but also to air and life itself.
People always think that if you eat anything as a model, it's amazing. I used to tease them and say, you know I'm going to throw up afterwards.
I really wanted to share with people the day-to-day joys that yoga can bring into one's life-not just the physical aspects.
I sincerely feel that beauty largely comes from within.
I would be very proud to have influenced anyone that I know or don't know to quit smoking.
My day-to-day life changes; I don't have any standard day.
So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.
Yoga is about compassion and generosity towards others. It means being mindful of the world around us.
It is better to not even try it than to endure the ramifications of either quitting smoking or dying.
Parents should be the most important examples for their children.
As a parent, I can get so frustrated. Any parent can!
I usually run in the morning and like to have something substantial but light to eat before and after. My go-to choices are either a banana with almond butter or a smoothie.
Any spirituality can be enhanced with the practice or study of yoga.
Imagine a world where mothers take as good care of themselves as they do their children and a world where mothers are so supported they're able to do that. That's the world we all need to create because our children, families, and communities are depending on us.
You know, all these sentiments about beauty coming from within, they've always resonated when I've read them, but it takes a bit of living to truly appreciate them. To realise we are so much more than our experiences, that we are who we are because of the lessons we've learnt, now that's what true 'beauty' is for me.
Sacred spaces can be created in any environment.
As a Global Maternal Health Advocate, I get to travel the world quite a bit, meeting individuals and visiting programs with tremendous potential and incredible vision to improve the quality of life for countless others.
In the world of maternal health, cell phone technology is being used to provide prenatal care, linking pregnant women to health care providers when they can't otherwise reach healthcare facilities.
As long as I was breathing with the contractions and not pushing against them, I felt better. That idea is fundamental-to feel pain and not to resist; to go towards it. It is an incredibly spiritual practice.
Yoga gave me the ability to calm down.
I run year-round and then ramp up my training for a race a few months before.
I do everything in moderation.
Yoga has brought me closer to myself. It's helped me realize the interconnectedness of the mind, body and spirit, in the Buddhist sense of the word.
Ayurveda is a sister philosophy to yoga. It is the science of life or longevity and it teaches about the power and the cycles of nature, as well as the elements.
Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.
It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death.
My weight fluctuates, and I haven't always been skinny. I became curvier in my twenties, but I never felt self-conscious about it; going through different periods is all part of being a woman.
The way I try to live is 'Be here now.' Be your best self now.
I never understand why people have children and then insist on living as though nothing has shifted.
I started practicing Yoga at about 18. I had a friend who was doing it and was incredibly disciplined and meditated all the time.
What I did for a living for so many years separated who I was from what I did.
I tried acupuncture, the patch, and hypnosis, but found that I needed to do it alone - when the time was right for me.
I have a son and a daughter; I try to teach them equally about balance, gender, and gender equity.
There has been a lot of media attention around the dangers of drugs used to treat mental illness on the fetus.
I associate wisdom and grace with age.
Modeling is a profession where your worth is tied up with looks.
Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker.
I enjoy the celebration of my birthday as much as anyone else does, but I always remember to start my day thanking my mom because she did most of the work the day I came into the world, not to mention all she has done throughout my life that has contributed so much to the woman I am today.
I'd rather go naked than wear fur.
Nicotine is both a stimulant and a depressant, so that can make one feel quite imbalanced.
Yoga has reinforced and grounded my own spiritual beliefs.
America's health care system is the most complicated and expensive in the world.
Yoga is not a religion to me.
I was never directly pressured by peers, but by surrounding myself with others who were experimenting with smoking provided a certain false comfort.
You can usually tell when I'm happy by the fact that I've put on weight.
I don't think that artists of any kind would or could sacrifice their artistic freedom by being more responsible with their influence on people, especially young people.
Every actor is a model to a certain extent, since they have to do so much press.
When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out.
I grew up Catholic. My mother is from El Salvador, so my family on her side is Roman Catholic. My father is Protestant, and while he was spiritual, he wasn't much of a churchgoing person. I think it's fairly common for families to be brought up in the mother's religion.
I'm not an everyday fragrance person usually. I wouldn't put fragrance on before dropping off my kids or going to the gym.
It is possible to experience an awakening in this life through realising just how precious each moment, each mental process, and each breath truly is.
The seated lotus postures are an amazing way to go into meditation, or simply just to take a moment to ground oneself.
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