Top 100 Hammond Quotes
#1. We all have to start with ourselves. It is time to walk the talk. Take the journey of making very difficult decisions. Start removing things from your life that are not filling your cup and adding things that bring joy in to your life.
Lisa Hammond
#2. The only way to get everything you want in life is to be very clever about what you want.
George Hammond
#3. We're taking sports too far and starting kids too early.
Darell Hammond
#4. If I worked as a waiter, I'd go home and write songs and record them. I'd have to. It's the only thing I know how to do. It's the only thing I can do.
Albert Hammond Jr.
#5. I feel like that's what being creative is: It's you bouncing with emotion and what you capture in those bounces. Accept where you are and use it.
Albert Hammond Jr.
#6. 'Our Dream Playground' is a new online project planner designed to help you build the playground of your dreams. It's a free resource, brought to you 'KaBOOM!,' offering step-by-step instructions to help you bring play to the kids in your community.
Darell Hammond
#7. A cultural shift is needed to incorporate exercise into our children's daily lives.
Darell Hammond
#8. Yes, you can do this. No, it's not too late. Take a step. The time is now.
Stacie Hammond
#9. You've got two witnesses here. Happiness is a wholeness issue. If you want to be happy, you need to be whole. If you want to be married, you simply need a mate. If you want to be happily married, you need to be a whole person married to another whole person.
Michelle McKinney Hammond
#10. How can you be tired? your poor horse did all the running."
"It was emotionally exhausting, Hammond," Breeze said, rapping the larger man's hand with his cane.
Brandon Sanderson
#12. Of course, if you're hoping for a perfect world, you're bound to be disappointed. But an interesting world
now that's doable. It's right here in front of you.
George Hammond
#13. Kids who don't play are not just at greater risk of falling behind academically, but also of becoming overweight or obese, failing to integrate socially, and even engaging in criminal activity.
Darell Hammond
#14. The Bible is a novel that's crazy ... it has murder, it has victory it has mayhem, it has disaster, it has war, sanctification.
Fred Hammond
#15. Disruption to the flow of oil through the Straits of Hormuz would threaten regional and global economic growth. Any attempt by Iran to close the Straits would be illegal and unsuccessful.
Philip Hammond
#16. I perform in the major leagues of what I do. It's incredible.
Darrell Hammond
#17. She's just a little faint," I reassured Mrs. Hammond. "They're blood typing in biology."
She nodded, understanding now. "There's always one."
I stifled a laugh. Trust Bella to be that one.
Stephenie Meyer
#18. I like to think that my arrogance, impetuosity, impatience, selfishness and greed are the qualities that make me the lovable chap I am.
Richard Hammond
#19. You, my dear, are a creature of the night, you are a vampire.
Lauren Hammond
#20. Play is under attack in our nation's schools - and shrinking recess periods are only part of the problem. Homework is increasing. Cities are building new schools without playgrounds. Safety concerns are prompting bans of tag, soccer, and even running on the schoolyard.
Darell Hammond
#22. Soil erosion is as old as agriculture. It began when the first heavy rain struck the first furrow turned by a crude implement of tillage in the hands or prehistoric man. It has been going on ever since, wherever man's culture of the earth has bared the soil to rain and wind.
Hugh Hammond Bennett
#23. I damaged all the complicated bits of the brain to do with processing and emotional control. I was prey to every single emotion that swept over me and I couldn't deal with it. I had to re-learn things from scratch.
Richard Hammond
#24. I don't think I found out what I liked to wear until I was, like, 18.
Albert Hammond Jr.
#25. When they write a bad review, and you agree with it, that's the worst feeling. When you know you've done what you wanted and the best you could and you love the outcome, then you look at everything differently. Not everyone's going to love everything you do.
Albert Hammond Jr.
#26. The great western error about the Taliban is to assume homogeneity.
Philip Hammond
#27. It is natural to feel helpless when attempting the impossible.
George Hammond
#29. That's what you don't get, Hadlee. You're saving me too. Every second I spend with you, you save me a little more. When I'm around you, I want to better myself. I want to be a better man.
Lauren Hammond
#30. I had struggled so hard and so long that I had simply exhausted myself, only to find that God had all the time in the world to wait for me to allow Him to free me.
Michelle McKinney Hammond
#31. People outside the documentary world don't realize how time-consuming making a documentary film is there is a lot of responsibility, and in order to make something good you need time.
Alex Hammond
#32. Hammond turned to Gennaro. "You know, of course, what Dr. Grant and Dr. Sattler do. They are paleontologists. They dig up dinosaurs." And then he began to laugh, as if he found the idea very funny.
Michael Crichton
#33. Some of the funniest people I know are not screwed up in the head.
Darrell Hammond
#34. I think this is an exciting time to be a female filmmaker. Trust your instincts, work harder than anyone else and learn your craft. Know it all. This means learn how to shoot, edit, produce and direct. Get as much experience as you can and watch a lot of films.
Alex Hammond
#35. Everything can turn around in a moment, if you just change your thoughts, and make different decisions. Listen to your heart.
Stacie Hammond
#36. Sometimes on the way to your dream, you get lost and find a better one.
Lisa Hammond
#37. Mexican cars are just going to be lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight, leaning against a fence asleep looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle on as a coat.
Richard Hammond
#38. Here's what bothers me about adults. They say we're supposed to be the bigger person and lie there like road kill while the bullies repeatedly run us over. That we're saying more by taking the abuse and staying silent, than sticking up for ourselves. I don't see it that way.
Lauren Hammond
#39. Maybe I'm stupid. Maybe I'm just as evil as he is by keeping my mouth shut. But he told me once that I was different. And I can't help but hope that me being different is the one thing in this world that can save him from what he fears the most ... Himself.
Lauren Hammond
#40. It is not whether an independent Scotland could go it alone and develop its own defence forces - of course it could - but what sort of forces would they be?
Philip Hammond
#41. I feel like my strength is surrounding myself with people who have an ear for things, and then they play it for me. I'm always looking; my ear is always open.
Albert Hammond Jr.
#42. Of all the excellent copyedits I've received over the years, Marie-Lynn Hammond's was by far the best. Her work on Half Blood Blues was incredibly sensitive and astute.
Esi Edugyan
#43. After boarding school in Switzerland, at, like, 14 or 15, my life clicked, and I just realized, 'I don't want to be like anyone around me at my school. I don't think the world revolves around money.'
Albert Hammond Jr.
#44. Our country's growing obsession with organized sports isn't just hurting our children, but also our communities. As play is siphoned off to gyms and fields, fewer kids are playing in our streets, parks, and playgrounds.
Darell Hammond
#45. I'm not a doctor - so I can't describe flashbacks well - but it is like you're living it again.
Darrell Hammond
#46. I hope my organization will not be around in 10 years, because at a national, state, and community level, we will have evolved into a society that cares about children and the need for play.
Darell Hammond
#47. If I have an audience, I'd like to make music for my whole life. But it's not really up to me.
Albert Hammond Jr.
#48. I feel like you listen your whole life, so when you are in the studio, your references are all the songs and music that you know. It just depends on where the songs are going and what attracts you at the moment.
Albert Hammond Jr.
#50. My hands are in his hair and his arms wrap around my waist tighter. I know what Henry does to me. I'm space bound. A rocket about to blast off. And I want Henry to send me to the moon.
Lauren Hammond
#51. People have to see play as more important than what it currently is. We don't want to get boxed into thinking play only happens on a playground. The best type of play is all kinds of play.
Darell Hammond
#52. Rock and roll's relatively new, in the sense of the Fifties, Sixties, right? They invented the first sort of rock stars, and they took it to excess, and then the excess became bitter, tormented. Then it became okay to succeed.
Albert Hammond Jr.
#53. Christ is not God, not the saviour of the world, but a mere man, a sinful man and an abominable idol. All who worship him are abominable idolaters and Christ did not rise again from death to life nor did he ascend into heaven.
Matthew Hammond
#54. I think then I may safely conclude and I firmly believe that American slavery is not only not a sin but especially commanded by God through Moses and approved by Christ through His Apostles.
James Henry Hammond
#55. Embrace life for all its worth. Drink in God's wisdom, and savor all the experiences He offers you.
Michelle McKinney Hammond
#56. It is hard for people to think clearly because their emotional needs keep getting in the way. The trick is to make thinking clearly an emotional need.
George Hammond
#57. No weapon formed against me shall prosper.
Fred Hammond
#58. I wouldn't not listen to something because it was country. I usually listen to stuff that friends give me, if I admire their taste.
Albert Hammond Jr.
#59. Don't let the pressures around you make you settle for anything less than God's will for your life.
Michelle McKinney Hammond
#60. Negotiating with the Taliban must be done from a position of strength. Negotiating from a position of weakness would be a disaster.
Philip Hammond
#61. You are priceless - fearfully and wonderfully made. God shaped and modeled you in your mother's womb. God created you in his own image. You were created, redeemed, and are deeply loved and valued by God. Therefore, the man who wants to be involved with you should have to count the cost.
Michelle McKinney Hammond
#62. Carl Sagan's 'Pale Blue Dot' is where I got the title 'Momentary Masters.'
Albert Hammond Jr.
#63. His sexy smile crept back into me [...] and he made me feel like I could do it. That I could change my life too.
Stacie Hammond
#64. The fiercely competitive are fierce because they don't see themselves as competitive.
George Hammond
#65. Playing God is as dangerous for God as it is for humans.
George Hammond
#66. I was raised to respect women, and I really like them to be strong, independent, and have their own identity. My parents are still together, and I grew up with a lot of love, and I feel that kids imitate what they have at home.
Albert Hammond Jr.
#67. Never make a cheater your partner. Never make your partner a cheater.
George Hammond
#69. I ran into an extraordinary doctor. He got up inside my head and figured out how my brain processed things, what my core values were, what my inner dialogue was.
Darrell Hammond
#70. I was in a marriage, and we didn't make it. So my hope is, through my music, I can help heal some relationships that may be headed in that direction.
Fred Hammond
#71. If we are bold in our thinking, courageous in accepting new ideas, and willing to work with instead of against our land, we shall find in conservation farming an avenue to the greatest food production the world has ever known - not only for the war, but for the peace that is to follow.
Hugh Hammond Bennett
#73. No child wants to fall off a jungle gym or slide. Accidents are an unfortunate fact of life, but to lower every last slide and jungle gym to a height that would only interest a toddler is doing our children a grave disservice.
Darell Hammond
#75. Greenlanders' heart is the environment. You can't sell your heart for oil.
Aleqa Hammond
#76. His words started to wedge their way into me, and they would stay for a long time; twisting me up, and causing me to look at life in a whole new way.
Stacie Hammond
#77. The national nonprofit I founded, 'KaBOOM!,' is on a mission to save play for America's children, and has long been championing the cause in high-need communities.
Darell Hammond
#78. Be warned - Hammond does tend to be a bit optimistic about these kind of things. If the army were made up of one-legged mutes, he would praise their balance and their listening skills.
Brandon Sanderson
#79. I was never in a mental institution for a long time. I was in psych wards.
Darrell Hammond
#81. The easiest and simplest thing that any one can do to make their car safer, more gas efficient, whatever - check the tire pressure.
Richard Hammond
#82. I'll get to make a lot of money and do some bad sitcoms.
Darrell Hammond
#83. Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race or people, barbaric or civilized
Hugh Hammond Bennett
#84. Anachron's Law:
There is no myth which is so irrational that no one will believe it.
Anachron's Corollary:
There is no truth which is so obvious that everyone will accept it.
George Hammond
#86. Public swimming pools, recreation centers, summer reading programs, youth jobs programs - they are all shutting their doors. And they are all facilities and programs relied on most heavily by low-income children.
Darell Hammond
#87. The North Koreans or Chinese may have a million men in uniform but it's about how you perform.
Philip Hammond
#88. All of us, each and every one, lives a life that is, in its own right, an epic.
Richard Hammond
#89. While you wait for your godly man, you should maintain the posture of a well-kept woman [ ... ] The person should add to, not take away from, your life. You maintain who you are and allow God to be picky for you.
Michelle McKinney Hammond
#90. I think I wanted to write a book about the relationship between the victim and perpetrator in which the victim agrees to remain silent.
Darrell Hammond
#91. The perception of the opponent is always the target.
Grant Hammond
#92. In terms of growing as a songwriter, I'm just a guy who understands the craft better. I understand what I want to do with it. I think that's where I've grown. Have I fully achieved that? No, but I don't think you ever do. There's always room to grow.
Albert Hammond Jr.
#93. Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I love being immersed in.
Dan Aykroyd
#94. I think that's one of the greatest gifts you get if you're successful at something like music or film or photography - any of the arts - you can sit there and think. It's so much fun to sit there and think and wonder about the world and the universe.
Albert Hammond Jr.
#95. I actually use women's perfume - I have since I was a kid. It's called Anais Anais, from Rachael. It smells like a beautiful woman and a bouquet of flowers. I use that and Right Guard deodorant.
Albert Hammond Jr.
#96. Faythe ... ?" The tremor in his voice broke my heart. Then understanding surfaced, and his tear-filled eyes searched mine desperately. "No. No," he whispered through clenched teeth. "This was not wrong. It's the only thing I've done right in months. Don't you dare regret this.
Rachel Vincent
#97. This summer, we need to let our kids go play and we need to stop worrying about whether or not it's going to ruin their chances of getting into college.
Darell Hammond
#98. Say German cars are sort of very built and efficient. Italian cars are a bit flamboyant and quick. Mexican cars just going to be lazy, feckless, flatulent ...
Richard Hammond
#99. I feel like I always describe myself as a late bloomer. My first album, in my mind, was that I had a few songs I needed to take from incomplete demos to working with someone else and finishing them.
Albert Hammond Jr.