Names Will Never Hurt Me Quotes

#1. We are graduating members from the class of we made it, not the faded echoes of voices crying out names will never hurt me. Of course they did. But our lives will ever always continue to be a balancing act that has less to do with pain and more to do with beauty.

Shane Koyczan

#2. What do great artists do when you see a world around you that's in turmoil? Some of the best artists make you feel good (hah), they look to the future.

Nile Rodgers

#3. It's hard to let go anything we love. We live in a world which teaches us to clutch. But when we clutch we're left with a fistful of ashes.

Madeleine L'Engle

#4. Baby, it's never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows how poor that person is, it doesn't hurt you. So don't let Mrs Dubose get you down. She had enough troubles or her own.

Harper Lee

#5. While progress should never come to a halt, there are many places it should never come to at all.

Paul Newman

#6. It is an extreme perversion of capitalism if you can trade in something before you have even paid for it.

James Dyson

#7. People say sticks and stones may break your bones, but names can never hurt you, but that's not true. Words can hurt. They hurt me. Things were said to me that I still haven't forgotten.

Demi Lovato

#8. I want things to be better all the time. And I tend to get angry about that. Books are an opportunity to vent.

Bill Bryson

#9. The boys and girls in the clique. The awful names that they stick. You're never gonna fit in much kid, but it you're troubled and hurt, what you've got under your shirt will make them pay for the things that they did!

Gerard Way

#10. Making a big Hollywood film that really affects people is as hard as making a small movie on a credit card.

Cameron Crowe

#11. Biological sex should not determine what we are capable of, what we aspire to, what we do in our life.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

#12. The greatest feeling in the world is to win a major league game. The second-greatest feeling is to lose a major league game.

Chuck Tanner

#13. You cannot govern the creative impulse; all you can do is eliminate obstacles and smooth the way for it.

Kimon Nicolaides

#14. So now, when the people of Earth looked up into the night sky at the place where they ought to have seen the moon, they saw instead this slowly tumbling constellation of white boulders.

Neal Stephenson

#15. At times of recession, running a budget deficit is highly desirable. Once the economy begins to recover, you have to balance the budget. But it will also need additional revenues. Should the government not receive them, we will all get punished with higher interest rates.

George Soros

#16. Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

Gaston Bachelard

#17. My parents said sticks and stones will break your bones but names will never hurt you. But I always felt a sense of exhilaration after a fight; it was the names that really hurt me.

Michael Franti