B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.”
“Being blessed is not just about receiving abundance; it’s about recognizing the privilege to be a source of strength and support for others. When we use our blessings to uplift those around us, we create a ripple effect of positivity and empowerment. By being there for others, offering a helping hand, and providing encouragement, we contribute to a community where everyone has the opportunity to rise and flourish. True blessings are found in the connections we build and the lives we touch.”
Source: Guided Transformation: Poems, Quotes & Inspiration
“Being blessed with good health gives you the strength and loving what you do and - is a privilege that keeps you going. So I'm just happy as a lark.”
“Being blind is as simple as closing your eyes. The blind don't act any different than you or I. You never see a blind person going around saying, 'I'm blind.' So if you want to play blind just close your eyes and keep them closed and fare thee well.”
“Being blind, I rely on software that talks to me.”
“Being blinded by young love. I remember the feeling, when I first fell in love - you don't see the world the same way that other people see it. You don't see the same boundaries.”
“Being blinded in love and friendship is a common mistake.”
“Being blocked, being uncertain, sitting there not knowing, waiting, abiding with it: this is the work. If you don't have the tolerance for that you're in great trouble. If you want to call it a writer's block... that doesn't seem a very useful name for that kind of abiding that I think is the essence of the work.”
“Being blond is definitely a different state of mind. I can't really put my finger on it, but the artifice of being blond has some incredible sort of sexual connotation.”
“Being blonde is definitely a different state of mind. I can't really put my finger on it, but the artifice of being blonde has some incredible sort of sexual connotation. Men really respond to it. I love blonde hair but it really does something different to you. I feel more grounded when I have dark hair, and I feel more ethereal when I have light hair. It's unexplainable. I also feel more Italian when my hair is dark.”
“Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.”
“Being blonde now doesn't mean Marilyn Monroe vulnerability. Blonde in the Eighties means being in control.”
“Being blonde, for me, means never having to say: 'I'll have the honey-striped half-head of highlights for £200,' to a bored colourist in a Mayfair salon, which is much more satisfying, not to mention cheap.”
“Being blunt with your feelings is very American. In this big country, I can be as brash as New York, as hedonistic as Los Angeles, as sensuous as San Francisco, as brainy as Boston, as proper as Philadelphia, as brawny as Chicago, as warm as Palm Springs, as friendly as my adopted home town of Dallas, Fort Worth, and as peaceful as the inland waterway that rubs up against my former home in Virginia Beach.”
Source: MARTINA
“Being bodiless, God is nowhere, but as God He is everywhere. If there were a mountain, a place or any part of Creation where God was not, then He would be found to be in some way circumscribed. So He is everywhere and in everything. In what way is this so? Is He contained not by each part but by the whole? No, because then that would be a body. He embraces and encompasses everything, and is Himself everywhere and also above everything, worshipped by true worshippers in His Spirit and Truth.”
“Being bold and courageous doesn’t mean only winning, it also means to hold on and stand by or stand for others.”
Source: Modified Leadership
“Being bombastic for the sake of being bombastic has just never been my take on the world.”
“Being booed off stage is just an applause from ghosts!”
“Being bored and telling my mom I'm bored are two different things.
Telling my mom is a bad idea. She always finds something for me to do.”
Source: Blue Sparkles
“Being bored is an insult to oneself.”
Source: The journal of Jules Renard
“Being bored is more useful than being busy.”
“Being bored is the price we pay for not being insane.”
“Being boring is as likely as being interesting to make one impossible to forget.”
“Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring.”
“Being born a girl is not a shame, being born
with such cheap mindset is the real shame.”
Source: A Girl That Had to be Strong
“being born a princess is all right, but behaving like one can be dangerous.”
“Being born a woman is my awful tragedy. From the moment I was conceived I was doomed to sprout breasts and ovaries rather than penis and scrotum; to have my whole circle of action, thought and feeling rigidly circumscribed by my inescapable feminity. Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, bar room regulars--to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording--all is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yet, God, I want to talk to everybody I can as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night...”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Being born-again Christian gives God the opportunity to gradually change your heart, mind, and thoughts”
“Being born again happens in an instant. Learning to live as a child of God takes a lifetime.”
“Being born again means you have a new concept of yourself”
“Being born and raised as a Californian, I somewhat ignorantly had taken for granted the diversity and liberal mindset that shaped my childhood and adult life.”
“Being born as an Indigo, the most difficult mission is to be strong enough to retain your true "self" while living in human stereotype society. Having to pretend, to act "the same as others," can only make you so deeply unhappy and hurt—feeling as though your "wings" have been cut off.”
Source: Indigo Diaries: A Series of Novels
“Being born as mediocre is fate, but to die as one is FAILURE.”
Source: Other Dimension, Secret Codes of the Universe
“Being born he have himself as our Companion, Eating with us he gave himself as Food, Dying He became our Ransom, Reigning he gives himself as our Reward”
“Being born in '31 was during the Depression and in my earlier youth World War II took place - so it was not the best of times, and yet I don't recall ever having experiences that were a burden.”
“Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.”
“Being born in a place is only one way to belong, nor do you have to die there....
I knew at once that Magdala was home because I felt sighted there again, second sighted. It was not only the spring. In time everything spoke.
When birds rose into the air, I could read the pattern of their wings, and the path the wind made on the water carried messages. The very ground said make a path here, plant herbs there. These vine are not dead. Tend them and they'll bear fruit again.
Ancient trees offered shelter and wisdom as well as olives. And there were certain rocks that could absorb fatigue or agitation, leaving me refreshed and calm.”
Source: The Passion of Mary Magdalen
“Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.”
“Being born in Cuba, a country where freedom of speech is non-existent, it's startling to observe how Venezuela, where I was happily raised, is fast becoming Cuba's mirror image: Dismantling of fundamental democratic rights deserved by its people and citizens of the world.”
“Being born in Jamaica, race was never an issue. It was always about the type of person I wanted to be, not the colour of my skin.”
“Being born in Kansas City, Missouri and raised in the very rural parts of Kansas led me to believe that everything was simple, everything made sense and that anything was possible.”
“Being born in Mumbai, I inherited the syntax of its distinct vocabulary. The undulant range of people as vibrant as the thrum of the Arabian Sea, smells of mogra, gulab, and champa from Dadar market, and songs of fisherman as Marine Drive gleams with the first light of dawning.”
“Being born in New York City, tends to lead to big expectations, expectations that I only started to realize after I had left.”
“Being born into poverty does not mean you are condemned to spend the rest of your life in poverty.”
“Being born into the Royal Family is like being born into a mental asylum. Marrying into it is not something to be taken lightly.”
“Being born into this world involves taking on a conditioned view of identity - for a while at least. We are all conditioned from a very young age to believe that we are separate and incomplete, and that if we could only just get something additional then we will somehow become whole.”
Source: The Human Experience Is The Dance Of Heaven And Earth: A Call Home To Peace
“Being born is a blessing in itself. You have survived, despite all the odds.”
“Being born is easy. So is taking your last breath. Everything in between, that's the hard part. Life is in between, and it will offer challenges and opportunities beyond measure.”
“Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.”
Source: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again
“Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. People are working every minute. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.”
Source: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again