Top 100 Quincy's Quotes

#1. If she'd listened to Troy and refused her father's offer the first night in Quincy's, his life wouldn't be in danger. She'd done this to him. To them.

Tessa Bailey

Quincy's Quotes #1753490
#2. The world shall retire from me before I shall retire from the world. John Quincy Adams

Paul C. Nagel

Quincy's Quotes #21734
#3. Sidney Poitier and Sidney Lumet were instrumental in helping me get started as the first black composer to get name credit for movie scores.

Quincy Jones

Quincy's Quotes #24135
#4. A gentleman of one of the first fortunes upon the continent ... sacrificing his ease, and hazarding all in the cause of his country.

John Quincy Adams

Quincy's Quotes #30407
#5. A stranger would think that the people of the United States had no other occupation than electioneering.

John Quincy Adams

Quincy's Quotes #32004
#6. The historian must have no country. - JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

James W. Loewen

Quincy's Quotes #32164
#7. Bebop and hip-hop, in so many ways, they're connected. A lot of rappers remind me so much of bebop guys in terms of improvisation, beats and rhymes. My dream is to see hip-hop incorporated in education. You've got the youth of the world in the palm of your hand.

Quincy Jones

Quincy's Quotes #39190
#8. His face is livid, gaunt his whole body, his breath is green with gall; his tongue drips poison.

John Quincy Adams

Quincy's Quotes #47177
#9. I was reading a magazine when I was a little kid, probably about twelve years old, and an ad said that if you sell so many jars of Noxzema skin cream, we'll sell you a ukulele. So I went out and banged on doors in the snow in Quincy, Massachusetts, where I was raised, and I sold the skin cream.

Dick Dale

Quincy's Quotes #49530
#10. The law is an artificial human construct, quite arbitrary, and of absolutely no use anywhere else but in a court of law!

John Quincy Adams

Quincy's Quotes #51320
#11. John Quincy Adams resolved to the discipline of rejecting argument for argument's sake would he sees that a fellow cabinet member is trying to draw him in to debating proposals the president will already reject.

Paul C. Nagel

Quincy's Quotes #52012
#12. Some summers my father would take us down to visit our grandmother in Louisville, who was an ex-slave, Susan Jones, and she had a shotgun shack they call it, and no electricity, a well in the back, a coal stove, kerosene lamps.

Quincy Jones

Quincy's Quotes #53770
#13. Frank Sinatra took me to a whole new planet. I worked with him until he passed away in '98. He left me his ring. I never take it off. Now, when I go to Sicily, I don't need a passport. I just flash my ring.

Quincy Jones

Quincy's Quotes #57192
#14. I say women exhibit the most exalted virtue when they depart from the domestic circle and enter on the concerns of their country, of humanity, and of their G-d!

John Quincy Adams

Quincy's Quotes #62295
#15. Westward the star of empire takes its way.

John Quincy Adams

Quincy's Quotes #71773
#16. When I was 14, I would sit up in my room and write till my eyes would bleed.

Quincy Jones

Quincy's Quotes #73926
#17. I have myself, for many years, made it a practice to read through the Bible once ever year ... My custom is, to read four to five chapters every morning immediately after rising from my bed. I employs about an hour of my time ...

John Quincy Adams

Quincy's Quotes #77135
#18. We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.

Quincy Jones

Quincy's Quotes #77994
#19. Our religion was the religion of a Book. Man must be educated on Earth for Heaven. John Quincy Adams

Paul C. Nagel

Quincy's Quotes #79701
#20. The extremes of opulence and of want are more remarkable, and more constantly obvious, in [Great Britain] than in any other place that I ever saw.

John Quincy Adams

Quincy's Quotes #84297
#21. Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.

Quincy Jones

Quincy's Quotes #92497
#22. John Quincy Adams' depression was treated by his aunt with some reliable remedies, first sleep and then compassion. She said, " He was half cared for by having someone to care for him.

Paul C. Nagel

Quincy's Quotes #92735
#23. My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ and I cannot cavil or quibble away ... the whole tenor of His conduct by which He sometimes positively asserted and at others countenances His disciples in asserting that He was God.

John Quincy Adams

Quincy's Quotes #108332
#24. Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.

John Quincy Adams

Quincy's Quotes #124716
#25. When you work with Ray Charles, Billy Eckstine and Frank Sinatra, and you tell them to jump without a net, you better know what you're talking about. Thank God I was ready for it.

Quincy Jones

Quincy's Quotes #129368
#26. I was born for a controversial world, and I cannot escape my destiny. John Quincy Adams

Paul C. Nagel

Quincy's Quotes #135239
#27. We understand now, we've been made to understand, and to embrace the understanding that who we are is who we were.

John Quincy Adams

Quincy's Quotes #135882
#28. When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first.

Josiah Quincy

Quincy's Quotes #137868
#29. The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster.

John Quincy Adams

Quincy's Quotes #141212
#30. I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the machine; the machine works for you.'

Quincy Jones

Quincy's Quotes #145768
#31. A barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and hardly could spell his own name ... One of our tribe of great men who turn disease to commodity ... he craves the sympathy for sickness as a portion of his glory.

John Quincy Adams

Quincy's Quotes #148576
#32. America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.

John Quincy Adams

Quincy's Quotes #149713
#33. Individual liberty is individual power.

John Quincy Adams

Quincy's Quotes #156582
#34. Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to take care of themselves, these are cities and walls.

John Quincy Adams

Quincy's Quotes #162116
#35. Quincy and Jake seem to be content to spend an enormous amount of time along together, which I count as romantic, but might simply be because they don't have a child: the Blues versus the world.

Sally Koslow

Quincy's Quotes #170570
#36. My custom is to read four or five chapters of the Bible every morning immediately after rising. It seems to me the most suitable manner of beginning the day. It is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue.

John Quincy Adams

Quincy's Quotes #171571
#37. Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.

John Quincy Adams

Quincy's Quotes #179037
#38. Everybody, no matter what vocation they're looking at, should add music as an essential to their curriculum. Music can be a very important part of your soul and your growth as a human being. It's so powerful.

Quincy Jones

Quincy's Quotes #180516
#39. Let's not get too full of ourselves. Let's leave space for God to come into the room.

Quincy Jones

Quincy's Quotes #185125
#40. When John Quincy Adams in the Netherlands was placed with elementary students and belittled because he did not speak Dutch, either the author or John Adams accuses school authorities of "littleness of soul".

Paul C. Nagel

Quincy's Quotes #189175
#41. Tie me, tease me, let your pleasure please me. Hurt me, love me, but please don't ever leave me ...

Pepper Winters

Quincy's Quotes #189506
#42. I see the clouds which now rise thick and fast upon our horizon, the thunder rolls, and the lightenings play, and to that God who rides on the whirlwind and directs the storm I commit my country.

Josiah Quincy

Quincy's Quotes #202581
#43. It slaps your dignity just right. I loved the idea of these proud, dignified black men, and I saw the older ones wounded, and it wounded me ten times as much because I couldn't stand seeing them hurt like this.

Quincy Jones

Quincy's Quotes #208071
#44. The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.

John Quincy Adams

Quincy's Quotes #212828
#45. When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.

Quincy Jones

Quincy's Quotes #225179
#46. Nincompoops. (Quincy,

Raven Pitts

Quincy's Quotes #227723
#47. I know the name of Turkey's leading avant-guard publication. I know that John Quincy Adams married for money. I know that Bud Abbott was a double-crosser, that absentee ballots are very popular in Ireland, and that dwarves have prominent buttocks.

A. J. Jacobs

Quincy's Quotes #252780
#48. The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.

Quincy Jones

Quincy's Quotes #257479
#49. It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.

Quincy Jones

Quincy's Quotes #261016
#50. I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.

Quincy Jones

Quincy's Quotes #265712
#51. The four most miserable years of my life were my four years in the presidency.

John Quincy Adams

Quincy's Quotes #281250
#52. Life is a problem; mortal man was made to solve the solemn problem right or wrong.

John Quincy Adams

Quincy's Quotes #288619
#53. However tiresome to others, the most indefatigable orator is never tedious to himself. The sound of his own voice never loses its harmony to his own ear; and among the delusions, which self-love is ever assiduous in attempting to pass upon virtue, he fancies himself to be sounding the sweetest tones

John Quincy Adams

Quincy's Quotes #299382
#54. Working with kids in Soweto in South Africa, it's rough out there. But the bottom line is you've got to go to know. In Cambodia, there are 10,000 landmines. Same in Afghanistan, same in Colombia. I'm totally addicted to traveling.

Quincy Jones

Quincy's Quotes #309998
#55. Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.

Quincy Jones

Quincy's Quotes #342392
#56. Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak, and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all His laws.

John Quincy Adams

Quincy's Quotes #348889
#57. Just blow in it and sound bad for about a year and then make it sound a little bit better, and you get a little band together, and then you get a few jobs. You take four guys that sound half bad, but if they're 25 percent each, they can give 100 percent, you know?

Quincy Jones

Quincy's Quotes #350807
#58. A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

John Quincy Adams

Quincy's Quotes #359626
#59. I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.

Quincy Jones

Quincy's Quotes #362713
#60. We know the redemption must come. The time and the manner of its coming we know not: It may come in peace, or it may come in blood; but whether in peace or in blood, LET IT COME.

John Quincy Adams

Quincy's Quotes #366206
#61. I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.

John Quincy Adams

Quincy's Quotes #366392
#62. It is among the evils of slavery that it taints the very sources of moral principle. It establishes false estimates of virtue and vice: for what can be more false and heartless than this doctrine which makes the first and holiest rights of humanity to depend upon the color of the skin?

John Quincy Adams

Quincy's Quotes #369796
#63. I don't deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn't deserve that, either. So I'll keep it.

Quincy Jones

Quincy's Quotes #373155
#64. The law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code; it contained many statutes ... of universal application-laws essential to the existence of men in society, and most of which have been enacted by every nation which ever professed any code of laws.

John Quincy Adams

Quincy's Quotes #375164
#65. When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident.

Quincy Jones

Quincy's Quotes #376365
#66. Melody is king, and don't you ever forget it. Lyrics appear to be out front, but they're not; they're just an accompanying factor. If they're good, you're really in good shape. Lyrics are written to be rewritten.

Quincy Jones

Quincy's Quotes #380792
#67. It's very freaky in Chicago.There's something in the water there, I don't know what it is. But the actual word Chicago means, in the Indian language, garlic. It was just garlic and mosquitoes there.And that is the roughest city on the planet, and I been to every place in the world.

Quincy Jones

Quincy's Quotes #382028
#68. I'm the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today.

Wyclef Jean

Quincy's Quotes #385486
#69. When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.

Quincy Jones

Quincy's Quotes #388056
#70. Excellence isn't an act, it's a habit

Quincy Jones

Quincy's Quotes #388279
#71. The best guarantee against the abuse of power consists in the freedom, the purity, and the frequency of popular elections.

John Quincy Adams

Quincy's Quotes #393156
#72. To believe that everyone is honest is folly, but to believe that no one is honest is worse.

John Quincy Adams

Quincy's Quotes #393763
#73. Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.

John Quincy Adams

Quincy's Quotes #394339
#74. Bandishment will not fascinate us, nor will threats of a "halter" intimidate. For, under God, we are determined that wheresoever, whensoever, or how soever we shall be called to make our exit, we will die free men!

Josiah Quincy

Quincy's Quotes #395495
#75. I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.

John Quincy Adams

Quincy's Quotes #402501
#76. Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.

John Quincy Adams

Quincy's Quotes #415374
#77. I'm not a psychiatrist.

Quincy Jones

Quincy's Quotes #424830
#78. The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.

John Quincy Adams

Quincy's Quotes #425038
#79. So far as the object of taxation is to raise a revenue for discharging the debts and defraying the expenses of the community, its operation should be adapted as much as possible to suit the burden with equal hand upon all in proportion with their ability of bearing it without oppression.

John Quincy Adams

Quincy's Quotes #427724
#80. Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.

John Quincy Adams

Quincy's Quotes #428843
#81. I knew my mother was - well, her ancestry dated back to John Quincy Adams, so she was totally not Latina. She was definitely whatever you call it - white bread, shall we say?

Raquel Welch

Quincy's Quotes #437921
#82. Special Agent Quincy had earned his stripes as one of the Bureau's finest profilers.

Lisa Gardner

Quincy's Quotes #439168
#83. I tell my kids and I tell proteges, always have humility when you create and grace when you succeed, because it's not about you. You are a terminal for a higher power. As soon as you accept that, you can do it forever.

Quincy Jones

Quincy's Quotes #440472
#84. We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don't think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.

Quincy Jones

Quincy's Quotes #443427
#85. The harmony of the nation is promoted and the whole Union is knit together by the sentiments of mutual respect, the habits of social intercourse, and the ties of personal friendship formed between the representatives of its several parts in the performance of their service at this metropolis.

John Quincy Adams

Quincy's Quotes #444575
#86. My countenance in my old-age does injustice to my heart. John Quincy Adams

Paul C. Nagel

Quincy's Quotes #445622
#87. Whether to the nation or to the state, no service can be or ever will be rendered by a more able or a more faithful public servant.

John Quincy Adams

Quincy's Quotes #446660
#88. Religion, charity, pure benevolence, and morals, mingled up with superstitious rites and ferocious cruelty, form in their combination institutions the most powerful and the most pernicious that have ever afflicted mankind.

John Quincy Adams

Quincy's Quotes #459025
#89. John Quincy Adams strove to escape commonplace thoughts.

Paul C. Nagel

Quincy's Quotes #462024
#90. People ask, "What do you think about being called Puff Mommy?" Puff's a very successful young man, so I don't have a problem if that's what they wanna call me. If anybody calls me a female Quincy Jones, that's way, way complimentary. That's something I'll cherish for life.

Missy Elliot

Quincy's Quotes #462032
#91. I'm just a musician and a record producer.

Quincy Jones

Quincy's Quotes #466341
#92. I chose the trombone because the trombone players in the marching band got to be up front with the majorettes (because of the slides) and I loved that!

Quincy Jones

Quincy's Quotes #467764
#93. Prince.. a true artist in every sense of the world.Gone way too soon.

Quincy Jones

Quincy's Quotes #470280
#94. From the day of the Declaration ... they (the American people) were bound by the laws of God, which they all, and by the laws of The Gospel, which they nearly all, acknowledge as the rules of their conduct.

John Quincy Adams

Quincy's Quotes #473458
#95. The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.

John Quincy Adams

Quincy's Quotes #486110
#96. Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God.

John Quincy Adams

Quincy's Quotes #493785
#97. Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.

{Letter to his son and 6th US president, John Quincy Adams, November 13 1816}

John Adams

Quincy's Quotes #494404
#98. I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.

Quincy Jones

Quincy's Quotes #504460
#99. If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

Quincy Jones

Quincy's Quotes #506005
#100. I never felt like I had a mother.

Quincy Jones

Quincy's Quotes #506284

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