Top 1200 Stood Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood.

It has always stood for f***ing great food.

I identify... with the ideas that Malcolm X stood for.

Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.

You knew where you stood with Sir Alex Ferguson.

For over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of triumph, a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeteers, musicians and strange animals from conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conquerors rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children robed in white stood with him in the chariot or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror holding a golden crown and whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting.

Howard Zinn helped us desegregate Atlanta. That was moving because he took a lot of abuse for that. He and Staughton Lynd, a fellow professor who was also from the North, stood with us. They were certainly behind us. In fact, they often stood in front of us. This had a huge impact on me. But one of the reasons I was very careful about speaking about the relationship I had with him and Staughton was because, in a racist society, if you acknowledge a deep love for and a deep debt owed to white teachers, they tend to discredit your own parents and your own community.

I really should have fell but I stood

There was confusion since I stood here 35 years ago.

I took one look at you That's all I meant to do And my heart stood still.

The remaining liberty of the world was to be destroyed in the place where it stood.

There have been times I have stood in for women.

I'm proud to have stood with the LGBTQ community my entire career.

I got stood up by the letter Y, he was hanging around with his X.

They stood brow to brow, brown to white, black to black, he supporting her elbows, she playing her limp light fingers over his collarbone, and how he "ladored,"he said, the dark aroma of her hair blending with crushed lily stalks, Turkish cigarettes and the lassitude that comes from "lass." "No, no, don't," she said, I must wash, quick-quick, Ada must wash; but for yet another immortal moment they stood embraced in the hushed avenue, enjoying as they had never enjoyed before, the "happy-forever" feeling at the end of never-ending fairy tales.

I stood up for what I believed in starting businesses.

I stood at a crossroads and fate came to meet me.

I stood in unimaginable trance And agony that cannot be remembered.

You do stand alone sometimes. But my mother stood by me through all this.

We've stood by who we are and we didn't listen to anyone else.

I feel grateful and indebted to the people who have stood by me.

Team success stood, and stands, above everything for me.

Veterans have stood up for us.

I have stood on my own feet.

I think the thing about Anne Boleyn is there is an exotic quality to her. This is a woman who wasn’t raised in the English court. She was in the French court and Hapsburg court. She has a continental exotic quality to her. She’s quite a fiery woman and incredibly intelligent. So I think Anne really stood out – fire and intelligence and boldness – in comparison to the English roses that were flopping around court, she would’ve stood out. And Henry noticed that.

The fact is that Britain is the most warlike nation on earth. In the history of armed combat, we are the only democracy to have declared war on another democracy - England versus Finland in the second world war, in case you're interested - and we're always at the front of the queue when Johnny Foreigner gets a bit uppity. Who stood up to the Kaiser? Who stood up to Adolf? And let's not forget the Argies. What other country would have sent its fleet halfway round the world and lost 250 men to protect a flock of sheep and some oil that might or might not be there? We're still at it.

he stood against the wind and let it peel him clean

What we, as African Americans, stood on was our faith.

From where they stood, they could see the castle.

Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best.

The snake stood up for evil in the Garden.

He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.

So many people have stood behind me for so long.

The planets in their station list'ning stood.

I've always stood up for country music.

Abe Lincoln died because he stood for liberty and truth.

Today I stood taller from walking among the trees.

I can see so far because I stood on the shoulders of giants.

We've always been a band that stood up for what we thought was right.

Without women, we stood in space on one leg only.

I've stood down as UKIP leader. I'm not responsible for these people anymore.

I stood in the lee of an overhanging rock and thought of many things.

I was very confident on the stage, and I stood out in a red gown.

I have stood on a mountain of no's for one yes.

Injustice can never be stood for.

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.

I was four when I first stood at the helm on my own.

I would just love to have gone and stood in the Kop.

Once again it was Gough who stood firm for Scotland in the air

The Chinese people have stood up.

Mercy stood in the cloud, with eye that wept Essential love.

The blind date that has stood you up: your life.

I definitely stood out when I was in high school.

What is hope but futility for moments stood on end.

I never stood a chance. He stole your heart first.

Get away from my ex-girlfriend, you moany little whinge-bag.' Caelen took a deep breath, like he was in pain, and stood up. His voice was low, guttural. 'I was hoping I'd get the chance to kill you.' 'You won't be killing anyone, you sad little emo git.' 'You've stood in the way of our love for long enough.' 'Just listening to you makes me want to top myself, you self-pitying Paranormal Romance novel reject.' Caelen glared. 'Stop insulting me.' 'Why? If you cry will your mascara run?

Grant stood by me when I was crazy.

Would it help if I stood around uselessly not knowing what to say?

I really love Evel Knievel, what he stood for.

What they're not doing is marketing the Dead Kennedys in the spirit of what the band stood for.