Memphis held onto me until I was far enough along in my art and then it let me go.
The nation which once held the creed that greatness is achieved by production, is now told that it is achieved by squalor.
Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be increased.
It is quite wrong for party conferences to be used as an excuse for the Commons not to sit. Conferences could be held at weekends.
In this world of ours, a world of powerful centers and subjugated outposts, there is no wealth that must not be held in some suspicion.
When I was a boy, my parents were writers and they owned a bookstore, 'The Complete Traveler in New York,' so writing and books have held special places in my heart all my life.
Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits to them in sport.
I touched Roger's bat and held it to my heart. My bat will lie next to his. I'm damn proud of that.
Faith is a private matter, usually held deep within a person, quiet, impossible to recognise or understand, if you have no faith yourself
In my mind, I was still Chimere's father. I was there when he was born. I saw him when he first came out. I held him. He was my kid.
The Russians have held my title for ten years and they're going to be in for it when I win the Championship. They're going to have to wait and play under my conditions.
You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you're held responsible for everything, but you don't always have control of everything, right?
I believe in international justice. I believe it's important that you don't just turn the page without people being held to account.
The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.
because it was then, as he held her in his unwavering gaze, that she knew she was in love with him as well.
Donald Trump has not held an event in the black community. He has not gone to a black church, as Hillary Clinton has done.
My arms hurt from how tightly Patch held me. “Now that’s what I call a scream,” he said, grinning at me.
When I started off, nobody held my hand and told me what I should do and how I should portray myself as an actor.
Don't let your history hinder you from your destiny... you are only held back by yourself! You aren't what they say you were, you are who God says you are!!
I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.
Better to know the quick pain of truth than the ongoing pain of a long-held false hope.
A girl is a good deed and a boy is a bounty. Good deeds are rewarded while people are held accountable for bounties.
I knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description.
There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment.
The devil told my mind that my thoughts held no power; and this seemed true until my thoughts I began to speak.
Two bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves. They flickered out saying: "It was worth being a bubble, just to have held that rainbow thirty seconds.
A conversation in English in Finnish and in French can not be held at the same time nor with indifference ever or after a time.
Marriage equality is the law of the land. Officials should be held to their duty to uphold the law - end of story.
Mother love is invariably held sacred, as it should be, but why has father love never had its due?
People intrinsically know there are secrets being held from us. Look at WikiLeaks: There are secrets that are really true to the world.
The sadness, the silence, the darkness, the loneliness... all of it held in a simple little moment. It was just so... I don't know. Just so much.
No people on earth can be held, as a people, to be an enemy, for all humanity shares the common hunger for peace and fellowship and justice.
I was the youngest producer to have a No. 1 record when Kris Kross first came out, and that was a record I held for I don't know how long.
Why don't we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices.
He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast.
The most effective adaptation of racism over time is the idea that racism is conscious bias held by mean people.
I just feel like I have this gift that I've been given. It's like, 'Someone unwrap it! Here it is!' That drive can't be held down.
He had a heart that could have held the entire empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar.
I didn't think that wave was going to offer a ton, ... But the wave just held form, and I was able to get a lot out of it.
Physically, I'm healthy as a horse, always held up. But in the mental illness department, I got my share. It's just what I got.
Those who are held Wise among men and who search the reasons of things, are those who bring the most sorrow on themselves.
May my eyes never see and my feet never take me to a society where half the people are held in silence.
But steady-cams are very different than hand-helds, because hand-held gives you that verite feel.
So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary environment and subject matter.
So many young black women love science, technology, engineering, and maths. But that's not the widely held image of the kind of person who likes those things.
We're now in one of those periods when the reality of intense pressure on the middle class diverges from long-held assumptions of how the American bargain should work
Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.
You get held to a high standard, almost an unmaintainable standard, in the public eye that you don't even come close to touching.
People have a lot of different beliefs, and at the end of the day, we all have deeply held beliefs that probably don't make sense to anyone else.
Children and babies should be held in the most sacred regard. We feel that they're the most natural and true magicians.
Error held as truth has much the effect of truth. In politics and religion this fact upsets many confident predictions.
At the women's march, we held signs that said, 'Today we march, tomorrow we run.' They didn't believe us, but it's coming to pass.
Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.
The body is a universe in itself and must be held as sacred as anything in creation....It is dangerous to forget the body as sacramental.
Sara held up a hand. 'How exactly did you "decline" his offer?' 'By slitting his throat.
I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.
I think if you've held onto a character for several years and then you're getting rid of that character, it's going to be traumatic.
My birthday is a day when all I want is to bask in the love of my family and rarely accept offers for concerts and shows if they are to be held on this day.
This Christmas and every Christmas will be richer by sharing and enjoying gifts that cannot be held but only felt.
Self-criticism sessions were held, but these produced more criticism than could usefully be absorbed or accomodated.
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