Top 82 Kearney Quotes
#1. The best things in this world are meant to be fought for." -Kearney
Brittany L. Engels
#2. But we cannot choose what we remember and what we forget. All the lovely bright moments of our lives get forgotten except for remnants here and there, like the leaves blown from a tree in the autumn, and the terrible things, they stick with us forever, as bright and raw as the day they happened.
Paul Kearney
#3. Don't apologize for all the tears you've cried, you've been way too strong now for all your life.
Mat Kearney
#4. The stories that are too personally vulnerable to write are the ones that must be told.
Mat Kearney
#5. As my uncle always says, 'If your vibe outweighs your substance, you're destined to be a novelty.' I think that is true in all art.
Mat Kearney
#6. I enjoy changing; I think it's more fun to try something different than to just do what you did last time.
Mat Kearney
#7. They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race.
Denis Kearney
#8. When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to beat you. I find that incredibly motivating.
Hannah Kearney
#9. I guess we're all one phone call from our knees
Mat Kearney
#10. I have seen worse things than ghosts, and if one were to appear to me, I should have so many questions to ask of it that it would have no time to groan and moan and shake its chains.
Paul Kearney
#12. Will he get a place for his oldest boy? He can not. His girl? Why, the Chinaman is in her place too!
Denis Kearney
#13. It's not the circumstances that determine who you're gonna be but how you deal with these problems and pains that come your way.
Mat Kearney
#14. If we possess narrative sympathy - enabling us to see the world from other's point of view - we cannot kill. If we do not, we cannot love.
Richard Kearney
#15. He is a Christian, and believes charity begins at home. And often it remains there.
Paul Kearney
#16. In my personal life, I really like the look of vests. I wear fitted, business ones, and perfectly preppy sweater vests that I can knit myself.
Hannah Kearney
#17. Memories are important, like the bones of the mind. We build ourselves upon them, flesh and blood moulded around the pictures of what is past.
Paul Kearney
#18. As you suggested I have in the following disputed certain passages, trusting you will do me the justice either to modify the same or add a note in the new edition stating that I dispute,' etc.
Denis Kearney
#19. His green eyes gave a twinkle to match his amused smile and strong chin, "Again Estelle, really?!" His brow cocked. "Kent!" My feet gave a slight
Serena Kearney
#20. California must be all American or all Chinese. We are resolved that it shall be American, and are prepared to make it so. May we not rely upon your sympathy and assistance?
Denis Kearney
#21. As an artist, you just want to keep creating, keep finding a place that really inspires you that feels fresh and new and keep it exciting.
Mat Kearney
#22. I love being vulnerable. It's scary. I feel like the best stuff that I have ever written can come from real vulnerable places.
Mat Kearney
#23. Getting married and really digging in with another human being can point out your greatest strengths and your greatest weaknesses.
Mat Kearney
#24. There's a truth to the fact that it's hard to be real. It's easy to be indulgent. It's easy to be bubble gum, but it's hard to find a real thing that really makes your soul tick. It's painful and honest. It can be more challenging than just a sad song.
Mat Kearney
#25. Life's too short to stay where we are.
Mat Kearney
#26. There are a few Chinese smuggled in over the borders of British Columbia on the north and Mexico on the south.
Denis Kearney
#27. I have this dream of what I ultimately want my life to be like, and it involves a lot of quaint activities like cooking and canoeing and camping and hiking.
Hannah Kearney
#28. Because we always have to wear a uniform to compete, my teammates and I look the exact same. My belt is the only accessory that I get to choose. I usually wear a yellow cloth belt with cherries or a leather belt with a beautiful tree buckle that I got at a thrift store.
Hannah Kearney
#30. One of my favorite snacks is Chobani yogurt with Bear Naked granola, because it has all the nutrients I need; it's all-natural, and it has a lot of protein.
Hannah Kearney
#31. We are men, and propose to live like men in this free land, without the contamination of slave labor, or die like men, if need be, in asserting the rights of our race, our country, and our families.
Denis Kearney
#32. No man could truly say what he was until he had been pushed to the edge of things with the precipice of his own ruin staring up at him.
Paul Kearney
#33. On the actual competition days, you get about three or four hours of physical exertion - between an hour-long warm-up, recovery in-between runs, the training runs, and then the runs themselves.
Hannah Kearney
#34. I watch my favorite shows-The Walking Dead, The Office, 30 Rock and Parks and Recreation-on Netflix to unwind. Actually, I eat most of my meals while watching Netflix. It's like my companion.
Hannah Kearney
#35. I think one of the things that I carry, and just my goals in life, is just encourage people and make them feel joy and celebrated and they leave feeling like maybe there was stuff talked about that was difficult, but then there was a voice of redemption and grace in the middle of that.
Mat Kearney
#36. They are imported by companies, controlled as serfs, worked like slaves, and at last go back to China with all their earnings. They are in every place, they seem to have no sex. Boys work, girls work; it is all alike to them.
Denis Kearney
#37. The songs that you start to write that you are a little scared of can be the ones that you have to tell.
Mat Kearney
#38. It was a lie of convenience. The truth takes about ten minutes to tell, most people can't sit still that long
Robert Kearney
#39. Trying to find a heart that's not walking away.
Mat Kearney
#40. It can be tough when you're on the road, but I think food is meant to be enjoyed, so whenever we go to a new place, we look for the specialty item there.
Hannah Kearney
#41. The experience of being an Olympian is one that can never be taken away from you.
Hannah Kearney
#42. He liked having the boy there beside him. Like some bright flame of life still burning bright beside the spent lamp of his own spirit.
Paul Kearney
#43. Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty.
Denis Kearney
#44. I never play all new stuff, because you got to "dance with the girl that brought you" what is that saying? You got to play the songs that got you there, so I love playing the songs from my very first record.
Mat Kearney
#45. While food makes us live, stories are what make our lives worth living.
Richard Kearney
#46. We intend to try and vote the Chinaman out, to frighten him out, and if this won't do, to kill him out.
Denis Kearney
#47. Friends do not bite each other without permission!
Ross Kearney
#48. It's all very well to say beauty is under the skin, or in the eye of the beholder, but no-one would say no to being prettier if they had the chance, so it is all rot.
Paul Kearney
#49. They have seized upon the government by bribery and corruption. They have made speculation and public robbery a science. They have loaded the nation, the state, the county, and the city with debt.
Denis Kearney
#50. That is the problem with being twelve. All the grown-ups think they have a right to know your business.
Paul Kearney
#51. The only Messiah still credible after the death camps would be one who wanted to come but could not because humans failed to invite the sacred stranger into existence.
Richard Kearney
#52. If it is indeed the business of imagination to make politics distrust itself - reminding it that its principles are not literal facts but constructs of imagination - it is also its business to encourage politics to remake itself by remaking its images of the good life.
Richard Kearney
#53. I will lead you to the City Hall, clean out the police force, hang the Prosecuting Attorney, burn every book that has a particle of law in it, then enact new laws for the workingmen.
Denis Kearney
#54. I don't have any style icons, but I get inspiration from my friends. My style motto is that it is better to be overdressed than underdressed.
Hannah Kearney
#55. When you can classify something, it helps pin it down into a thing you can handle instead of a nameless dread.
Megan Kearney
#56. Places ain't home. People is. Bricks and chairs is nothing.
Paul Kearney
#57. To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for a cheap working slave.
Denis Kearney
#58. It's a fine balance for an athlete in enjoying the moment and being really satisfied, say, with a run, and with your day, and knowing you can make it better in the future.
Hannah Kearney
#59. I have found that there are two ways of dealing with men. Either you treat them with respect, or you kill them. Anything in between merely breeds resentment and the desire for revenge.
Paul Kearney
#60. I don't recall ever desiring to go as fast as possible.
Hannah Kearney
#61. I love creating moments that feel bigger than just like an artist on stage.
Mat Kearney
#62. I savored my time on top of the podium by watching the American flag rise up out of the crowd as the anthem played, thinking about how every single second of training I've done was for this minute and how many people played a role in my achievement.
Hannah Kearney
#63. When the United States media is paying attention, that's when you're really representing your country.
Hannah Kearney
#64. I go to the gym in the morning to warm up, and then I go to the mountain and train. Then I come home and go to the gym again to recover. But on travel days, you get pretty much no physical exertion.
Hannah Kearney
#65. We know that if gold, if fraud, if force can defeat us, they will all be used. And we have resolved that they shall not defeat us. We shall arm. We shall meet fraud and falsehood with defiance, and force with force, if need be.
Denis Kearney
#66. A man of honor does swiftly that which must be done.
Susan Kearney
#68. Unfortunately, my beauty regime is almost nonexistent when I am training.
Hannah Kearney
#69. Jema quaffed at his natural understanding.
J.R. Kearney
#70. An Olympic gold medal is something that almost seems like a fantasy. Yes, of course I want it, since I was a little kid, before I even knew what the World Cup tour was.
Hannah Kearney
#71. I'm a 27-year-old freshman, and returning to college after a seven-year break from high school was by far the hardest thing I've ever done in my life.
Hannah Kearney
#72. Just because you've written a song doesn't mean that you have pulled through. There are definitely songs where I embodied someone else's pain and that was purely to serve the listener because I knew they needed to hear something. But most of the good stuff comes from my life.
Mat Kearney
#73. To overcome any sort of fear is satisfying, and to overcome it well is even better.
Hannah Kearney
#74. Clearly, imagining cannot be expected to mean exactly the same thing today as it did in the Middle Ages or antiquity. For one thing, Aristotle and Aquinas never watched television.
Richard Kearney
#75. I am a freestyle mogul skier who, on February 13, became the first American to win a gold medal at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.
Hannah Kearney
#76. We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded fraud, and put honest toil in power.
Denis Kearney
#77. If it is true that we cannot possess knowledge of what is good in any absolute sense, it is equally true that we have an ethical duty to decide between what is better and what is worse.
Richard Kearney
#78. Sometimes the best coaching advice you can get is simple acknowledgement that there's nothing else you could have done.
Hannah Kearney
#80. When I set out to write, I want to write something that will rip your heart out.
Mat Kearney
#81. A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert.
Denis Kearney
#82. There is no politically neutral fence available for us to sit on, and our attempts to do so have the consequence (intended or not) of supporting the existing political system.
Anne Kearney
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