Idolizing Quotes

#1. I grew up idolizing these men, like Arnold Schwarzenegger. I loved Sly (Stallone). I loved Bruce Willis. These guys embodied everything that action was in the 80s and 90s.

Katee Sackhoff

#2. Peace is in the grave.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#3. We weep when we are born, not when we die!

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#4. Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.
- Walter Benjamin, Unpacking My Library

Phillip Lopate

#5. Christmas was always a big holiday in our family. Every Christmas Eve before we'd go to bed, my mom and dad would read to us two or three stories and they would always be 'The Happy Prince,' 'The Gift of the Magi' and 'Twas the Night Before Christmas,' and I would like to keep that alive.

Cameron Mathison

#6. It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.

Magnus Carlsen

#7. To see my statue unveiled alongside Borje Salming, the player I grew up idolizing in Sweden, will be very special for both my family and me.

Mats Sundin

#8. I have done a Hamburger Helper commercial, a Hardees commercial, a McDonalds commercial. American Express commercial.

Luke Benward

#9. Many people die of thirst but the Irish are born with one.

Spike Milligan

#10. Idolizing is a strong word, though. I'm happy that people respond well to the work I'm doing now. If anyone admires what I'm doing in any way, then I'm really proud of it.

Scott Wolf

#11. Cum gutters are pretty high up there too," I smiled sleepily. "Cum gutters?" he asked with a short laugh,

Lola Stark

#12. When I got Traded To The Celtics, I was so Happy Because I was Back home And Had Grown Up Idolizing The Celtics

Chris Herren

#13. I had a great time cheering for the team that I grew up idolizing and watching. The best part about the experience was the friendships I made and being part of an organization that is so involved with the community.

Lauren Gardner

#14. I was never crying and shaking like the Beliebers do, but I understand the idolizing of a hero.

Jon M. Chu

#15. Sometimes we control our family members because we idolize and idealize our perfect plan over the journey that God has laid out for them. (p. 56)

Mary E. DeMuth

#16. I never imagined I could make it to the top of Mount Everest at age 80. This is the world's best feeling, although I'm totally exhausted. Even at 80, I can still do quite well.

Yuichiro Miura

#17. Again, as egotistical as I am, as self-centered as I am, and as much as I love strangers idolizing me, I find it very crass to be self-promoter in a way.

John Larroquette

#18. Did you ever read a love-letter that wasn't an evidence of idiocy - except your own?

Myrtle Reed

#19. And beeping, obviously sure that I was either too stupid or too deaf to hear the racket.

Mary Higgins Clark

#20. I wouldn't mind being a hero to a kid. I grew up idolizing players, so I know how important that is for a lot of younger kids.

Johnny Damon

#21. Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.

Lawrence Welk

#22. I'm attracted to stories that deal with the family and what it's like to be a member of that family, whether it's together or apart, given the pressures that are put on it by the outside world.

Stanley R. Jaffe

#23. I usually don't like to 'spoon feed' my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.

The Weeknd

#24. I grew up idolizing Madeline Kahn and Lily Tomlin and Carol Burnett, Ruth Gordon, Rosalind Russell, Amy Irving, women who were stylish and real actresses who did real work and could not be replaced with anyone else. You cannot cast anyone else in Madeline Kahn's roles.

Jenny Slate

#25. You belong where you're loved.

Cassandra Clare

#26. By idolizing those whom we honor, we do a disservice both to them and to ourselves ... We fail to recognize that we could go and do likewise. - CHARLES V. WILLIE

James W. Loewen

#27. I grew up with all these old jazz guys in the '70s in L.A., and they grew up idolizing Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Lester Young - all of these incredible musicians.

Flea

#28. I was a little girl who grew up idolizing musical-theatre stars.

Laura Benanti

#29. But remember, there are two ways to dehumanize someone: by dismissing them, and by idolizing them.

David Wong

#30. Travel light, and death will never find you.

John Jackson Miller

#31. I cursed myself. For once, heaven had sent me "Beauty" in its most perfected form and I abandoned it. She might not have been a girl after all but an angel: a force to guide me on this hazardous path of life I hurry down ... How can life be hazardous if it can only end in death?

Roman Payne

#32. Idolizing virginity as a stand-in for women's morality means that nothing else matters- not what we accomplish, not what we think, not what we care about and work for. Just if/how/whom we have sex with. That's all.

Jessica Valenti

#33. True generosity must benefit both parties. No woman can control her destiny if she doesn't give to herself as much as she gives of herself.

Suze Orman

#34. There wasn't any particular player I modeled my game after. I tried to learn from everyone and create my own style. I studied past players. Truth be told I never had a favorite player. It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people. I just go try to learn.

Magnus Carlsen

#35. I'm not a concept. Too many guys think I'm a concept or I complete them or I'm going to 'make them alive' ... but I'm just a fucked up girl who's looking for my own peace of mind. Don't assign me yours.

Charlie Kaufman