Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
Immanuel KantSomeday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.
Marilyn MonroeWhen you are young, you cannot imagine being disabled. You imagine you would conquer it somehow. As I’ve got older, I can imagine it; I can see how life narrows in. I feel compassion for my mother now.
Alice MunroI had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.
Charlie ChaplinMy mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn’t have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.
Dave GrohlThere are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWhat’s so beautiful about Miami is that we support each other. We’re just one big family, not just the entertainers, just everyone in general.
DJ KhaledI do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.
Dolly PartonI think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.
Lou HoltzThe statesman’s duty is to bridge the gap between his nation’s experience and his vision.
Henry KissingerMy mother made me truly appreciate women.
DrakeI have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don’t know how much experience you’ve had with contemporary Hebrew. It’s quite difficult.
Noam ChomskyEvery man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI think, because I started Virgin when I was a teenager, it has become a part of me, like my family, and I am motivated by ambition for it, almost as if it were a child.
Richard BransonWhen you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.
Sunil ChhetriIf you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
Mark TwainIn spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
George EliotMy goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family. I don’t care what your job is, you’re not gonna talk down to me, you’re not gonna try to get a rise out of me. I’m a man first. And in establishing that, some interesting things have happened.
Kanye WestEvery secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
Virginia WoolfWhen I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.
Mr. TA leader who confines his role to his people’s experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people’s experience runs the risk of not being understood.
Henry KissingerFlying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.
Amelia EarhartWithout Cambodia, I may never have become a mother. Part of my heart is and will always be in this country. And part of this country is always with me: Maddox.
Angelina JolieWho’s my hero? That’s a great question… Well, I think my dad is my hero, because he’s someone I look up to every day.
Tom BradyI’ve never had a divorce, but I’ve seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can’t write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I’m able to kind of express it, or their joy.
Dolly PartonMy strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.
Richard M. NixonMy parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families – second families, perhaps I should say.
Abraham LincolnActing is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.
George EliotI played characters with villainous aspect. But out-and-out villain? No.
Clint EastwoodThe love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.
Maya AngelouI had this child, and it destroyed my family.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerIn business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance… you thrive on that.
Bill GatesNeil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.
Dave GrohlThere are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.
ConfuciusTogether, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.
Michelle ObamaI feel only my friends and family need to know what is happening in my personal life.
Virat KohliSenator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.
George W. BushI was acting when I was playing baseball.
Bob UeckerMy real dream is to have a whole, like, buy a whole piece of land. Imagine, like, a long driveway. Like, a cul de sac-type street, with maybe, like, seven houses. Me be right here. Have my mom be able to be right here. My brother over here. My girl’s grandmother and family right here. Friends over there. That’s my real dream.
J. ColeThe writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression – all of that is very important.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerI think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.
Dolly PartonI love playing under pressure. In fact, if there’s no pressure, then I’m not in the perfect zone.
Virat KohliFor me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.
Beyonce KnowlesI’m not actually a very keen performer. I like putting shows together. I like putting events together. In fact, everything I do is about the conceptualizing and realization of a piece of work, whether it’s the recording or the performance side.
David BowieA family shares hardships and a connected history.
Kamala HarrisWe make the Sabbath a delight when we teach the gospel to our children.
Russell M. NelsonAgainst my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.
Bertrand RussellEverything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerPfft, I hate Christmas Day. It’s for children and families. Not for people like me.
Karl LagerfeldI don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
Lady GagaYou live and learn. At any rate, you live.
Douglas AdamsStudies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
Francis BaconEvery man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
H. L. MenckenWhoever does not have a good father should procure one.
Friedrich NietzscheI try to use my experience and the fact that I grew up in the ghetto – I tell people you don’t have to rob or steal to get out of the ghetto.
Mr. TWhen your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.
Erma BombeckMany things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
Samuel JohnsonProbably because I’m from a middle class family, I have that nature in me that I don’t get too excited with big things.
Virat KohliMy mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.
Dwayne JohnsonThose who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.
Richard Branson