Cheered Quotes

#1. Would they be cheered by their recovery, or marked for life by their trauma?

Dan Wells

#2. The match was a short one. The mountain brute received several gashes across his flesh that bled profusely, but the fight came to an abrupt halt when he cleaved the whip-wielding arm from his opponent's body. The crowd cheered, some cringed, and others bathed the stands in their lunch.

Kel Kade

#3. The library would've cheered me up, most days. I loved the heavy oaken tables, the high walls stacked with books to the ceiling, the musty smell of old pages and the heavy brass fixtures that had gone dark with age and wear.

Claudia Gray

#4. W'en you see a man in woe, Walk right up and say hullo. Say hullo and how d'ye do, How's the world a-usin' you? . W'en you travel through the strange Country t'other side the range, Then the souls you've cheered will know Who you be, an' say hullo.

Sam Walter Foss

#5. They should all be cheered by it, for isn't it what they want? What we all want: to leave a message behind us that has an effect, if only a dire one: a message that cannot be cancelled out.

Margaret Atwood

#6. At the rear of the bus, the driver wrenched a big chunk of smoking metal out of the engine compartment. The bus shuddered, and the engine roared back to life.
The passengers cheered.
Darn right!" yelled the driver. He slapped the bus with his hat. "Everybody get back on board!

Rick Riordan

#7. I could sit and watch nature documentaries with Jenks and the kids the rest of the night if I wanted. And trust me, watching a dozen pixies scream as a crocodile chomped on a zebra was something not to be missed. They invariably cheered for the crocodile, not the zebra.

Kim Harrison

#8. Be thankful for the people who have stood by you and cheered you on, but don't forget to be thankful for the ones that said it could not be done. Writing a book is no small task and even the skeptics can help you get where you want to be!

C.K. Webb

#9. Those were comfortable, carefree years. The word I'd use now is idyllic. On Friday nights, we cheered on the Bulldogs of Midland High. On Sunday mornings, we went to church. Nobody locked their doors. Years later, when I would speak about the American Dream, it was Midland I had in mind.

George W. Bush

#10. Flora threw herself forward at the signal, and the men standing nearby cheered. Two of them ran alongside for a few steps, waving their hats. "Go, pig! Pull, pig!

Chris Kurtz

#11. My purpose is to have American Jews look away from the success story with which they've cheered themselves up, and to have them remember the classical tradition, whatever it is.

Arthur Hertzberg

#12. If we can be cheered up by positive images we can be depressed by negative ones. As long as we accept images as realities we are in that trap, because you can't control the images.

David Bohm

#13. The stench of the manure that Jean was turning had cheered him up a little. He adored its promise of fertility and was sniffing it with the relish of a man smelling a randy woman.

Emile Zola

#14. To change man, the audience by which he judges himself must be changed. A man is defined by his audience: by the people, institutions, authors, magazines, movie heroes, philosophers by whom he pictures himself being cheered and booed.

Luke Rhinehart

#15. Science never cheered up anyone. the human situation is just too awful.

Kurt Vonnegut

#16. And yet there were fragments of truth here and there which satisfied the conscience, and gleams of light that cheered the vision.

Charlotte Bronte

#17. I felt vigorous and cheered by borrowed popularity.

Tracy Kidder

#18. I say to myself that I shall try to make my life like an open fireplace, so that people may be warmed and cheered by it and so go out themselves to warm and cheer.

George Matthew Adams

#19. Writing is such a lonely work that I try to keep myself cheered up.

William Zinsser

#20. And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened,
If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#21. Praise a fool, and slay him; for the canvas of his vanity is spread; His bark is shallow in the water, and a sudden gust shall sink it: Praise a wise man, and speed him on his way; for he carrieth the ballast of humility, And is glad when his course is cheered by the sympathy of brethren ashore.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#22. She laughed loudly. It sounded to her husband like someone pushing a witch in a barrel over a waterfall. He pictured his wife in a barrel falling into very deep water, and this cheered him up a bit.

John Connolly

#23. But I cheered myself up slightly with the rationalization that all new relationships - even the fictional ones - have obstacles to overcome in the beginning. I would not give up hope on this one. Not yet.

Lauren Weisberger

#24. One day as I sat musing, sad and lonely without a friend, a voice came to me from out of the gloom saying, 'Cheer up. Things could be worse.' So I cheered up and sure enough - things got worse.

Joan Howard Maurer

#25. I got cheered greatly, not because I did well, but because the main point in my part was to look foolish, and I feel that I did that to perfection.

Jon Lellenberg

#26. 2012 has been an extraordinary year for our country. We cheered our Queen to the rafters with the Jubilee, showed the world what we're made of by staging the most spectacular Olympic and Paralympic Games ever and - let's not forget - punched way above our weight in the medals table.

David Cameron

#27. He was cheered by this. He was a scientist, not a mystic.

China Mieville

#28. Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.

Jack Kemp

#29. I don't cheer for anyone because my job is obviously more important, but the reason why I got into sports is because of my father. He's a giant sports fan and we are from New England, so he cheered for the Celtics and the Red Sox.

Erin Andrews

#30. Well, Milwaukee is a special place to me. It's where I started my career playing in Appleton. Getting cheered on the road is something I haven't been use to.

Alex Rodriguez

#31. When I told the fans I was an alcoholic, they all applauded. When I told them I had given myself to a higher power, they cheered again.

Grace Lee Whitney

#32. Maybe what a gay icon is, is a person who is rooted for - in other words, cheered on - by people who feel different.

Liza Minnelli

#33. One day I was particularly gloomy, and Jim asked me what the matter was. I told him my high school girlfriend (for all of two weeks) had broken up with me. He said, "Oh, that'll happen a lot." The knowledge that this horrid grief was simply a part of life's routine cheered me up almost instantly.

Steve Martin

#34. Before us lay a painful road, And guidance have I sought in duteous love From Wisdom's heavenly Father. Hence hath flowed Patience, with trust that, whatsoe'er the way Each takes in this high matter, all may move Cheered with the prospect of a brighter day.

William Wordsworth

#35. We found a water pipe, tied the flag to it and put it up. Then all hell broke loose below. Troops cheered, ships blew whistles, some men openly wept.

Charles Lindbergh

#36. when the Lakers scored at the buzzer to take the lead, Charlotte leapt to her feet and cheered.

Debbie Macomber

#37. The two had very little figured out. They were trying though. They fell in love. They looked for God. They loved constructing miracles out of the mundane. Above all things, they cheered for each other. And they made each other stronger. And that meant everything.

Hannah Brencher

#38. Both happy and sad people can be cheered up by a nice meal,

Laurie Colwin

#39. You never get cheered for telling people the situation is not as simple as they think.

Ken Follett

#40. We find from experience that yellow excites a warm and agreeable impression ... The eye is gladdened, the heart expanded and cheered, a glow seems at once to breathe toward us.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#41. The guests cheered, and America started a drunken rendition of Happy Birthday. I laughed when the part came to say my name and the entire room sang "Pigeon".

Jamie McGuire

#42. Sin silently cheered his father for being a dick right along with him and ignored the heated glares that they were both receiving.

Santino Hassell

#43. Limit your inputs to only those that support a certain kind of self-destructive behavior, and you can be cheered with enthusiasm as you drive yourself off a cliff.

Adam-Troy Castro

#44. I liked Pat Cash, and I loved Mats Wilander. I went to the Australian Open with my parents, and I used to watch Wilander being cheered on by the Swedish fans, and with his game style being like mine, I drew comparisons with him.

Lleyton Hewitt

#45. Writing is such lonely work that I try to keep myself cheered up. If something strikes me as funny in the act of writing, I throw it in just to amuse myself. If I think it's funny I assume a few other people will find it funny, and that seems to me to be a good day's work.

William Zinsser

#46. You're the best," Rachel cheered. Her hands drifted to his chest and started tugging at the top button. "I am going to text her as soon as I am done with you," she winked, and then pushed him towards the bedroom.
- Liberty Stone, Crossing a Line

Liberty Stone

#47. There were a few teachers who just did not like me because of my face. Once, I was told to stand in the corner until I cheered up. The attitude was, 'Oh, for God's sake, what's the matter with him?' But it's just a natural expression.

Jack Dee

#48. I had a dream about you; you sat at the end of this long road field with things trying to keep me from you. You cheered me on as I became closer to you.

Rodney Jenkins

#49. I can't remember when I've liked a character as much as I've liked young Lyle Rettew, or when I've cheered one on so hard, despite the fact that he's clearly crazy and his quest is doomed. A thunderous debut, and the beginning of what will surely be a breathtaking career.

Pinckney Benedict

#50. You can bring people together around the issue of economic fairness. I don't want to be a mayor that goes into one neighborhood and gets jeered, and goes into another neighborhood and gets cheered.

Sal Albanese

#51. My soul is always lifted up, and my spirit cheered and comforted, when I hear good music. I rejoice in it very much indeed.

Joseph Fielding Smith

#52. In some ways, her life is so much worse that everybody else's, people feel almost cheered up and inspired. They feel like, 'If Hayley hasn't killed herself, why should I?'

Kelly Ripa

#53. I've been cheered by thousands, booed by thousands, but nothing feels as bad as the booing inside your own head during those ten minutes before you fall asleep.

Andre Agassi

#54. I just find it interesting that kids apparently used to cry when Bambi's mother died. George and I both held our breaths, and then cheered when she didn't reanimate and try to eat her son.

Mira Grant

#55. When [wines] were good they pleased my sense, cheered my spirits, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me to confer the same benefits on other people. (Notes on a Cellar Book)

George Saintsbury

#56. Sinking invalids blew kisses to him from windows. Aproned shopkeepers cheered ecstatically from the narrow doorways of their shops. Tubas crumped. Here and there a person fell and was trampled to death.

Joseph Heller

#57. Love is a good thing on a bad day, when the last thing you want is to be cheered up.

Chad Sugg

#58. cheered by the optimism that one sometimes had at the beginning of strenuous exercise, a kind of helium that filled our lungs and carried us along

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#59. Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic.

Ernie Harwell

#60. While once it was the rank and file that cheered with all the partisan passions at their heights, today it is the party leaders who are cheering themselves; and all by themselves. The mob that is their audience is in one vast universal trance, thinking about something else.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#61. When I was growing up, I cheered and danced and ran and stuff like that. I'm probably thinner now than I was in high school. I had a lot of muscle - a lot of muscle in high school.

Ashley Greene

#62. The sound he'd taken for an engine hum? The rowers chanting while a drummer kept the beat. "Row, row, row the boat, toward the Darkling Sea. And there we'll find some fucking fish, and have a killing spree." Each time they sang a verse, they cheered. A berserker army on its way to glory.

Eve Langlais

#63. It is wonderful how cheered a pilot becomes after he shoots down his first machine; his morale increases by at least 100 percent.

James Ira Thomas Jones

#64. Coolidge made less speeches and got more votes than any man that ever run. (William Jennings) Bryan was listened to and cheered by more people than any single human in politics, and he lost. So there is a doubt just whether talking does you good or harm.

Will Rogers

#65. Authorities say brain cells may shrink, but they don't necessarily die. Frankly, I am cheered by the fact that something is shrinking. I'd be even more thrilled if what was shrinking affected my dress size, but you can't have everything.

Erma Bombeck

#66. Her chatter had set her free from a long week of loneliness, of doing what she was told and saying nothing. She was all cheered up.

Hermann Hesse

#67. Success, for me, is that if my son chooses to be a stay-at-home parent, he is cheered on for that decision. And if my daughter chooses to work outside the home and is successful, she's cheered on and supported.

Sheryl Sandberg

#68. Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death
what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.

Sophocles

#69. Looking back, it made no sense for my college friends and me to distance ourselves from the hard-won achievements of earlier feminists. We should have cheered their efforts. Instead, we lowered our voices, thinking the battle was over, and with this reticence we hurt ourselves.

Sheryl Sandberg

#70. A remarkable and definite victory.
The bright gleam has caught the helmets of our soldiers
and warmed and cheered all our hearts.

Winston S. Churchill

#71. So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world.

Vincent Van Gogh

#72. Some wishes crossed my mind and dimly cheered it, And one or two poor melancholy pleasures, Each in the pale unwarming light of hope, Silvering its flimsy wing, flew silent by - Moths in the moonbeam!' COLERIDGE.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#73. The crowed that had so loved Octavian while he yet lived cheered ever so more loudly as he died.

Sean-Michael Argo

#74. I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up.

Lynda Barry

#75. Her singing always cheered him up. Life seemed so much brighter when she stopped.

Terry Pratchett

#76. To that movement, consecrated by religious principle, sustained by an awful sense of justice, and cheered by the brightest hopes of future good, all our powers, talents, and attainments are devoted.

George Ripley

#77. The thought has cheered me, and I'd like to hang onto that. Must protect my little pockets of happiness.

Sara Gruen

#78. Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Saskya Pandita

#79. His father fell off a window-ledge. No wonder his mum had cheered up.

Nick Hornby

#80. I was like a local sports team; they were the fans in the stadium seats. They cheered. They booed. They stood and did the Wave. The bond was palpable, maniacal, and maybe the most important thing about the experience.

Caroline Paul

#81. In order to make any permanent changes, you have to be willing. Willing to see things differently. Willing to experience new ideas. Willing to listen to the people who cheered you on rather than ones who echoed your fears.

Rhonda Britten

#82. The majority of my family is Auburn fans, and I grew up watching Auburn football, and that's always who I've cheered for.

Katherine Webb

#83. It was astonishing, really, what people could live through. Flora felt cheered up all of a sudden, just thinking about eating seal blubber and doing impossible things, surviving when the odds were against her and her squirrel. They

Kate DiCamillo

#84. Every year in late June, Custer's Last Stand is reenacted on the high plains of Montana. When Custer led out the 7th Cavalry in 2003 - the year I witnessed it - the audience stood and cheered with turbo-charged patriotism.

Clive Sinclair

#85. When I was growing up, I, like many Jews, cheered what appeared to be the receding of faith from everyday life. The further religion got from our lives the better our lives would get, I thought, because persecution had been such a burden to Jewish families for generations.

Bruce Feiler

#86. They cheered and clapped, excited by the prospect of my musical pain. Twisted ... every last one of them. If I still had any sense of humor, I would have laughed.

Genna Rulon

#87. Ah, Mr. Ogg! How I like you!" Mr. Owl cheered. "Always ready to break a neck. Good fellow!

M.L. LeGette

#88. We have determined enemies who will use any means available to take the lives of as many Americans as possible. They cheered when the Twin Towers fell. They dream of even larger calamities. They must be stopped. And that requires an intelligence system that finds them, before they harm us.

Bill Frist

#89. Mere knowledge of human psychology would in itself infallibly make us despondent if we were not cheered and kept alert by the satisfaction of expressing it.

Thomas Mann