Top 96 Procter Quotes
#1. I had the interesting experience of having lived and worked for six years in China with Procter & Gamble, and that just changes, I think, your whole perspective in living overseas and living in a country like China.
Steve Daines
#2. I think that the feel that maybe China is slowing down means it will be buying less from Africa and Latin America. That means Procter & Gamble and Coca-Cola will sell less in Latin America and Africa. And so it is definitely related.
David Wessel
#3. Alan Lafley, who runs Procter & Gamble, apparently says: "A measure of a person's power is that their circle of influence is greater than their circle of control.
Julia Middleton
#4. Companies like GE and Procter & Gamble have been in business for a long time. Over decades or a century you're bound to figure out a management structure that works.
Barry Diller
#5. We were licencees of Sara Lee Corp's air freshener brand Ambi Pur, which they sold to Procter and Gamble. So we handed it over to Procter and Gamble. Now we will introduce our own brand of air freshener.
Adi Godrej
#6. Perhaps one of the more creative promotions of all time was
in 1969, when a marketer with the Procter & Gamble Company
came up with the idea of giving away goldfish with each purchase
of a king-size box of Spic and Span.
Mary Potter Kenyon
#7. Emily Procter getting pregnant changed the show for me. I got so much more involved, which was so much fun! Now I feel like an action figure Barbie.
Eva LaRue
#8. From our group, we've had joint ventures with a lot of international companies: Procter & Gamble, General Electric, Sara Lee, currently with Hershey's and Tyson. We've learned a lot of the best practices.
Adi Godrej
#9. Whales are silly once every two years. The young are called short-heads or baby blimps. Many whale romances begin in Baffin's bay and end in Procter and Gamble's factory, Staten Island.
Will Cuppy
#10. As comfortable as I was with my adoption, the nature-versus-nurture question has been a big one for me. I adore my parents, but I always wondered if I would feel a different kind of love-not more or less, just different-for someone who was biologically related.
Emily Procter
#11. Sing! Who sings To her who weareth a hundred rings? Ah, who is this lady fine? The Vine, boys, the Vine! The mother of the mighty Wine, A roamer is she O'er wall and tree And sometimes very good company.
Bryan Procter
#12. I felt like the news business was a little rough for me and a little sleazy. So I glided right over into acting.
Emily Procter
#13. I couldn't wait to look at someone who shared my genes. I thought my baby was going to provide a decoder key to my past. But then I looked at Pippa and realized, no, she's actually the key to my future.
Emily Procter
#14. Judge not; the workings of his brain
And of his heart thou canst not see;
What looks to thy dim eyes a stain,
In God's pure light may only be
A scar, brought from some well-won field,
Where thou wouldst only faint and yield.
Adelaide Anne Procter
#15. It's not a bad idea to be single, so I can concentrate on my job.
Emily Procter
#16. Words are mighty, words are living:Serpents with their venomous stings,Or bright angels, crowding round us,With heaven's light upon their wings:Every word has its own spirit,True or false, that never dies;Every word man's lips have utteredEchoes in God's skies.
Adelaide Anne Procter
#18. It's really fun at night, because I can see the baby kicking. I can feel the knee or the foot. The baby is starting to get heavy, and it's a really incredible feeling. I'm so grateful I get to experience this.
Emily Procter
#20. I'm very self-conscious having my picture taken, so I clown around. My driver's license photo looks like a blonde Elvis.
Emily Procter
#21. It's funny, because I did all of these interviews as soon as I had the baby, and they were asking questions, and I really didn't have an idea of anything, because I was so blurry.
Emily Procter
#22. Pity speaks to grief More sweetly than a band of instruments.
Bryan Procter
#23. One by one bright gifts from heaven
Joys are sent thee here below;
Take them readily when given,
Ready, too, to let them go.
Adelaide Anne Procter
#24. Not the rich viol, trump, cymbal, nor horn,
Guitar, nor cittern, nor the pining flute,
Are half so sweet as tender human words.
Bryan Procter
#26. To say that I am organized is an understatement, but my car tells a different story.
Emily Procter
#27. A single star is rising in the east, and from afar sheds a most tremulous lustre; silent Night doth wear it like a jewel on her brow.
Bryan Procter
#28. Enter upon thy paths, O year!
Thy paths, which all who breathe must tread,
Which lead the Living to the Dead,
I enter; for it is my doom
To tread thy labyrinthine gloom;
To note who round me watch and wait;
To love a few; perhaps to hate;
And do all duties of my fate.
Bryan Procter
#29. Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming, But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.
Adelaide Anne Procter
#30. My house is very serious. It's a lot of antiques, and the way I decided to liven it up is, I paired it very vibrant colors and - bugs ... I think that they're pretty. And I think that they're fascinating and they're natural.
Emily Procter
#31. I am hoping this is my year to have children. I understand that I am possibly more European in my views of marriage. I am not going to say I'm not going to get married, but it's not my priority.
Emily Procter
#32. Getting pregnant wasn't easy, and I found that devastating. I really beat myself up for waiting so long when I'd always wanted children and family had been the basis of my happiness my whole life.
Emily Procter
#33. So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!
Bryan Procter
#36. Touch us gently, Time!
Let us glide adown thy stream
Gently,-as we sometimes glide
Through a quiet dream!
Bryan Procter
#37. I started crying the other day just thinking that the baby is going to leave me soon! You have this relationship with this person in your belly and it's really amazing.
Emily Procter
#39. Be strong to hope, O Heart!
Though day is bright,
The stars can only shine
In the dark night.
Be strong, O Heart of mine,
Look towards the light!
Adelaide Anne Procter
#40. It's a reality that in this business there's an expectation of being thin. But having a baby is a reality too, and it's more important for me to make milk than to fit into those tiny pants. So that's just going to have to wait.
Emily Procter
#41. Having a crying baby is inspiration to get the job done quickly.
Emily Procter
#42. Hours are golden links, God's token
Reaching heaven; but one by one
Take them, lest the chain be broken
Ere the pilgrimage be done.
Adelaide Anne Procter
#43. In college, I was a weather anchor for the local news. I would 'borrow' my forecast from The Weather Channel.
Emily Procter
#44. Our Beasts and our Thieves and our Chattels
Have weight for good or for ill;
But the Poor are only His image,
His presence, His word, His will; -
And so Lazarus lies at our doorstep
And Dives neglects him still.
Adelaide Anne Procter
#45. I 'm on the sea! I 'm on the sea! I am where I would ever be, With the blue above and the blue below, And silence wheresoever I go.
Bryan Procter
#46. It's so nice after 10 years as a blond actress in Hollywood to have people let you do smart things.
Emily Procter
#47. It's a very weird thing. When you see your house naked, you feel very protective of it and of the people who lived here before.
Emily Procter
#48. Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, till perfect Day shall shine through Peace to Light.
Adelaide Anne Procter
#49. All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim.
Bryan Procter
#52. Hark! the hours are softly calling Bidding Spring arise To listen to the rain-drops falling From the cloudy skies To listen to Earth's weary voices Louder every day Bidding her no longer linger On her charm'd way But hasten to her task of beauty Scarcely yet begun.
Adelaide Anne Procter
#53. My cat, Kevin, has adorable habits - he waits for me while I'm showering because he loves to have his face washed when I'm done. And he also knows I keep treats for him beside the bed; he loves his treat at night before he goes to sleep - you know, like all men!
Emily Procter
#54. I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.
Bryan Procter
#55. Kinds hearts are here; yet would the tenderest one
Have limits to its mercy; God has none.
Adelaide Anne Procter
#57. If you live in a small space, you should do the things that make it feel luxurious.
Emily Procter
#59. No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been.
Adelaide Anne Procter
#60. Your child's not looking at you and going, 'Mmm, I love a clavicle. Let me nestle into that.'
Emily Procter
#64. The men are much alarmed by certain speculations about women; and well they may be, for when the horse and ass begin to think and argue, adieu to riding and driving.
Adelaide Anne Procter
#65. I squirrel away sealed greeting cards that people give me so I can open them later when I'm having a bad day.
Emily Procter
#67. One by one the sands are flowing,
One by one the moments fall;
Some are coming, some are going;
Do not strive to grasp them all.
Adelaide Anne Procter
#68. I decided about a year ago, and I just feel like I want to see more personal style in people, and I feel like if I'm going to be out there in the public eye, they should see who I am and how I dress, and I feel like it, also.
Emily Procter
#69. There's not a wind but whispers of thy name; And not a flow'r that grows beneath the moon, But in its hues and fragrance tells a tale Of thee, my love.
Bryan Procter
#70. The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.
Bryan Procter
#71. Half the ills we heard within our hearts are ills because we hoard them.
Bryan Procter
#72. Love can take what shape he pleases; and when once begun his fiery inroad in the soul, how vain the after knowledge which his presence gives! We weep or rave; but still he lives, and lives master and lord, amidst pride and tears and pain.
Bryan Procter
#73. O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!
Bryan Procter
#74. I've found that I've settled into myself a little bit more in last year and started wearing things that I feel comfortable with and my own style and ... I decided to just embrace the person that I am and the look I like, and what I think is pretty.
Emily Procter
#75. Despair doth strike as deep a furrow in the brain as mischief or remorse.
Bryan Procter
#76. 180 episodes of 'CSI: Miami' and never the same lipstick twice!
Emily Procter
#77. I'm going to let myself off the hook, because if there's one thing that is not my focus at the moment, it's how much I weigh.
Emily Procter
#78. The only important thing in this life is to figure out how to use the experiences that you have to make the world a better place.
Emily Procter
#79. When I was 8, my favorite toy was a stapler. My brother was afraid of me.
Emily Procter
#80. Before you're a mom you don't know what gear is going to be relevant.
Emily Procter
#81. Women are so gentle, so affectionate, so true in sorrow, so untired and untiring! but the leaf withers not sooner, and tropic light fades not more abruptly.
Bryan Procter
#82. I said that I loved the wise proverb, Brief, simple and deep; For it I'd exchange the great poem That sends us to sleep.
Bryan Procter
#83. I never wear pants in my life. I never thought I'd say this, but I miss wearing pants. For the first time in my life, I miss my pants.
Emily Procter
#84. Half my life is full of sorrow,
Half of joy, still fresh and new;
One of these lives is a fancy,
But the other one is true.
Adelaide Anne Procter
#85. I'm never going to be a modern gal. I love colonial. I love early American. I love a big rectangular piece of brown furniture on a hardwood floor.
Emily Procter
#86. I think that we could be more careful about what we're saying to young women in terms of their expectations. It's unrealistic to expect people to always be in designer clothes. Girls growing up deserve more freedom in how they look and how they feel about how they look.
Emily Procter
#87. The sea! The sea! The open sea!, The blue, the fresh, the ever free!
Bryan Procter
#88. What I know from my friends who are cops is they keep their houses very clean, because they say you never know if you're coming back or not.
Emily Procter
#89. Most writers steal a good thing when they can, and when 'Tis safely got 'Tis worth the winning. The worst of 't is we now and then detect em, they ever dream that we suspect em.
Bryan Procter
#91. The progress from infancy to boyhood is imperceptible. In that long dawn of the mind we take but little heed. The years pass by us, one by one, little distinguishable from each other. But when the intellectual sun of our life is risen, we take due note of joy and sorrow.
Bryan Procter
#92. I would love to tell you that I don't worry about losing the weight after the baby is born, but I do try to think before I eat. The first cookie? Definitely! But I try to think about if I really want to do the extra sit-ups before I eat the second one.
Emily Procter
#93. I feel like 'CSI: Miami' was just a license to do all sorts of horrible things that I'd always wanted to do.
Emily Procter
#94. Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.
Adelaide Anne Procter
#95. There are actually times when there are crimes out there in the world and I find myself trying to figure it out and I ask myself, what am I doing?
Emily Procter
#96. I always felt my emancipation into truly being a grown-up was when I had to figure out how to fold up a king-size fitted bottom sheet on my own.
Emily Procter
