Gay Accepting Quotes

#1. The sense that thousands and millions of children and young people are being sexually violated and that there's this huge silence about it around me angers me.

Sunitha Krishnan

#2. If you were just a regular person, you turned on the TV, and you saw Eric Cantor talking, I would say - and I'm fine with gay people, that's all right - but my gaydar is 60-70 percent. But he's not, I think, so I don't know. Again, I couldn't care less. I'm accepting.

Brian Schweitzer

#3. I have a lot of gay friends, and some have not come out, and ... it just hurts me that there are some people who can't feel like they can be themselves because society is not accepting to them. I literally see their happiness deprived.

Tia Mowry

#4. I came from a pretty accepting community, and my school had a lot of openly gay and LGBT-plus people. When I joined YouTube, I saw a lot more hostility than I saw in my everyday life.

Tyler Oakley

#5. More people more accepting of civil unions and gay marriage, which our pollster said was the most significant change they've seen on any social issue. So, this country is changing in a way.

Norah O'Donnell

#6. This show does something very special for the gay community. There's a message hidden inside the totally gaudy package that is so fun to watch. It's all about loving and accepting yourself, and every season I'm surprisingly moved by it.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

#7. More are weakened than strengthened by their troubles.

Mason Cooley

#8. Group nudity could also be personally beneficial, according to psychologist Abraham M. Maslow, who believed that nudist camps or parks might be places where people can emerge from hiding behind their clothes and armor, and become more self-accepting, revealing, and honest.

Gay Talese

#9. What does the gay movement mean when it says tolerance? ... It means absolutely unconditionally accepting it as perfectly normal, healthy, natural and something that should be integrated into every part of society.

Scott Lively

#10. If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

Mark Zuckerberg

#11. People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

Nick Cave

#12. When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.

Ralph Fiennes

#13. I would never jump under a subway car because that would delay all the people behind me. How inconsiderate!

Signe Baumane

#14. People want to build new circuits around the world and they say: 'We'll come to Silverstone and have a look how it's done', and I tell them to stay away.

Bernie Ecclestone

#15. [If] you don't have any soul and you don't have any talent, jazz is what you should do ... any fool can do it; all you gotta do is practice.

Stewart Copeland

#16. If God wanted us to accept gays, he'd have made us compassionate

Stephen Colbert

#17. They might have a long way to go before truly accepting gay people into their lives, but they have accepted the show into their living rooms each and every week.

Sean Hayes

#18. Kisses open doors, I've noticed. That one gesture can unlock secrets, ease open feelings. It can't be prevented
these kisses just are. It's how they work. They break into basements you never knew you had.

Susan Fletcher

#19. My parents are kind and accepting. Because so many of my friends were gay, it was just an accepted thing in my house. I was very lucky.

Melissa McCarthy

#20. Lawrence of Arabia is the ultimate movie, deeply cinematic.

Christine Baranski

#21. We had this budding baby band going and we hadn't reached that development we wanted to reach before we got signed to a major label.

Debbi Peterson

#22. The healing of the land and the purification of the human spirit is the same process.

Masanobu Fukuoka

#23. Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

August Strindberg

#24. In short, the world abounds with simple delusions which we may call "happiness", if we be but able to entertain them.

H.P. Lovecraft