Top 230 Berry Quotes & Sayings

But what is coffee, but a noxious berry, Born to keep used-up Londoners awake?

Following in the footsteps of Berry Gordy, I always admire what he did.

You can't not be star-struck by Mary Berry.

The merry year is born Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.

I wouldn't warm to [Chuck Berry] even if I was cremated next to him.

Berry Gordy is a music legend, and we all know that, but I don't think Berry gets enough credit for his involvement with the civil rights movement.

From the time I was 12 until I was 21, Chuck Berry was my favorite artist.

Those original, black, spirited, defiant, rebellious musical masters. Chuck Berry was one of the first masters of Les Paul's new electric guitar; he pretty much laid down the gauntlet, and I don't think anybody's ever beat him since. Way before the British Invasion, I was tuned into the black guys that created the British Invasion. Without Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, Lightnin' Hopkins, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry and the Motown hits, there would be no Beatles.

Listen - in life, if you can go into work and spend the day with Halle Berry, you're doing alright.

I'm not reinventing the wheel here. I'm not Chuck Berry or Bill Monroe. Guys like that are from outer space.

That punt was higher than Marion Berry on a fact-finding tour of Cartagena.

I said if you want to be Keith Richards, you've got to listen to Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry. Then I thought, "What did Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry listen to?" I said, "They listened to Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters." Well who'd they listen to? They listened to Robert Johnson. I said, "Ok, we'll start with that."

My influences were Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry.

I always turn to Wendell Berry for inspiration on food, community, agriculture, and, well, just being a human.

I think the BBC likes to have Mary Berry and me around to rebut the charge of ageism.

Nothing surprises me about Berry Gordy.

There's only one true king of rock 'n' roll. His name is Chuck Berry.

Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.

I adore Smashbox lip stains. I carry a natural color for daytime and a berry shade for going out at night.

I think the world of Chuck Berry.

To a crowd that loves improv, Robin Williams is like Chuck Berry.

Emily And her love to be Carved in a heart On a berry tree But it's only a little farewell lovespell Time to design a woman

I first read Wendell Berry's short-story collections, "Fidelity" and then "Watch with Me." They just knocked my socks off. The characters and the fellowship of the small town reminded me of my own small town in Illinois.Then I discovered that, much like J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, that all of Berry's fiction was centered in this same town.

Berry's On Top is probably my favorite record of all time; it defines rock and roll. A lot of people have done Chuck Berry songs, but to get that feel is really hard. It's the rock and roll thing-the push-pull and the rhythm of it.

There would be no Rock and Roll without Ike Turner, James Brown, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint, etc. Fake ghetto books and fake ghetto music. Elvis Presley, whom they idol, is merely a karaoke makeover of James Brown and Chuck Berry.

Baseball been berry berry good to me!

Chuck Berry had a very profound impact on me. The man was a genius.

I am partial to Halle Berry's 'Catwoman.'

Halle Berry's style is simple and elegant.

My favorite country is America. I love going there! I go in the local lake near where I work on Sundays. It's called Berry Hill.

When I started, all I wanted to do was play like Chuck (Berry)

I don't think there's anyone that's more beautiful than Halle Berry.

I don't think you'd trust Mary Berry if you found out she couldn't bake a cake.

My momma always said, 'You and Elvis are pretty good, but y'all ain't no Chuck Berry.

You didn't know whether Chuck Berry was black or white - it was not a concern.

Berry was a transitional and, to my mind, revolutionary black figure who had to find a place for the rage that the crucible of racism created.

There wouldn't be a Halle Berry or an Angela Bassett or a Cicely Tyson if there hadn't been a Lena Horne.

As of right now, I'm still waiting to meet Halle Berry. And she is single.

My favorite guitar players are Chuck Berry and Brian May and Dave Davies from the Kinks.

I worshipped Berry Gordy for the creative dreams he had made come true.

I am quite bereft that I've lost the emoticons from my latest new old berry. Is there anyway [sic] I can add them.

Back then, I, most rockers loved Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis... you know in the '60s.

Not to be mean about it, but some great rock and rollers, like Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, are pretty one-dimensional.

We would not have rock and roll without Chuck Berry, and when I first heard Chuck Berry, I fell in love with that music, and when I saw him, I changed my whole career trajectory that I was on as a kid.

I saw Berry in concert a couple of times in the late '70s - and like almost every North American male of a certain age, I went because a friend was hired by Berry that very day to be part of the legend's backup band.

This is no condemnation of Chuck Berry, who I greatly admire. But Chuck Berry's music will not translate as well to orchestration because of its very three-chord rock 'n' roll nature. It is the music of the artists that are more pretentious, pompous or closer to the kind of big dramatic stylings that orchestras are good with.

Halle Berry is and will always be one of the most beautiful women in the world.

I'd really like to see Mary Berry busting out a Pitbull number!

What we admit to is being a rock n' roll band. From day one, I was a big Chuck Berry fan.

Chuck Berry doesn't give interviews.

If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.

Chuck Berry invented rock 'n' roll. He was one of the best songwriters of the 20th century.

Creating a dance is like coming up with a Chuck Berry riff.

I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.

Elvis may have fueled rock & roll's imagery, but Chuck Berry was its heartbeat and original mindset.

What is a berry? It is an ovary swaddled within a sugary womb. Plainly put, a berry is the fruition of a flower - the ultimate tautology.

The darker the berry, the sweeter the juice.

Halle Berry is here, whose win last year broke down barriers for unbelievably hot women.

I think Halle Berry is one of the most beautiful women on the planet.

I'm like a backward berry, Unripened on the vine, For all my friends are fifty, And I'm only forty-nine.