Top 100 Quotes About Patty

#1. I worked with a man named Patty Crane who was Errol Flynn's stand-in back in the '30s in Hollywood.

David James Elliott

#2. When I started performing, I played acoustic music, partly because that way you don't have to worry about interacting too much with other people creatively. Asserting myself in that way was not really a strong point for me.

Patty Griffin

#3. It's your money or you'll be wearing cement shoes - Peppermint Patty

Charles M. Schulz

#4. Women Who Seek Equality With Men Lack Ambition

Patty Sheehan

#5. The panic attacks - I still have them. They started when I was around 8. They always have to do with my death.

Patty Duke

#6. I cut 'Diamond in My Crown' in my home in Georgia, because I wanted to use an old 1848 pump organ that my mother-in-law had gotten for Emory for Christmas one year. His mother would be proud to know that pump organ was made use of.

Patty Loveless

#7. I have stood on the line in Everett, Wash., where we have thousands of workers who go to work every day to build these planes. I would challenge anybody to tell me that they've stood on a line in Alabama and seen anybody building anything.

Patty Murray

#8. And, you know, like I said, I'm not looking forward to a trial.

Patty Hearst

#9. We call that Sean's little independent movie.

Patty Duke

#10. The difference between ordinary players and champions is the way they think.

Patty Berg

#11. What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win.

Patty Berg

#12. Most everything means nothing, except some things that mean everything.

Patty Griffin

#13. Nowadays, there's a lot more that comes before music, that I need to take care of before I can sit down and play, and be a contributing member of a band or society. I have to take care of myself and my recovery, and then my family, and then my music.

Patty Schemel

#14. I'll be at the table, as I've been, willing to talk to any Republican who says, 'Look, my country is more important, this pile of bills is not going to go away, the challenges that we have is not going to disappear, we need to cross that divide.' I'm ready. I'm waiting.

Patty Murray

#15. I know that without treatment I would not have never been able to harness my creativity in such a successful way.

Patty Duke

#16. A lot of the players that I play with who are Canadian, they call me Patty. Before then, I never heard it. I didn't mind Patty.

Patrick Kane

#17. I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.

Patty Duke

#18. It's not how fast you get there, but how long you stay.

Patty Berg

#19. You have to go hunting to know the excitement of seeing someone get their first deer. It's a thrill for them. It is.

Patty Hearst

#20. I may not be able to re-record a song, but I can do a better job each time I sing it.

Patty Loveless

#21. The childhood that Paul and Clara Jobs created for their new son was, in many ways, a stereotype of the late 1950s. When Steve was two they adopted a girl they named Patty, and three years later they moved to a tract house in the suburbs.

Walter Isaacson

#22. I get the, you know, 'In my generation, we all had victory gardens, we all participated in this country's success.' It's that kind of sentiment that I hear from everybody, that we're all in this together.

Patty Murray

#23. Always keep learning. It keeps you young.

Patty Berg

#24. Bruce Springsteen settled down. He used to run around with lots of women and now all he wants to do is hang out with Patty Scialfa and the kids.
Patty's from Jersey. You don't mess around on Jersey girls. They're too tough. I'm sorry Bubbles, but being from Pennsylvania, you're no match.

Sarah Strohmeyer

#25. I don't actually have to think very hard when I'm writing. I mean, there are times where it's a task, and you have to plug away and plug away. But then there are times when a song writes itself in 15 minutes, and you're just struggling to keep up with it.

Patty Griffin

#26. On the other hand, when we disown our beliefs, we lose touch with ourselves. We no longer know who we are or what we believe and neither does anyone else.

Patty Houser

#27. For me, my awakening came when I was kidnapped.

Patty Hearst

#28. I can't stand characters with contradictory information.

Patty Jenkins

#29. Well, you know, one lawyer says I'm the only witness and I'm not credible. Another lawyer says this witness - there's tons of evidence that's been available for years.

Patty Hearst

#30. But even before that, in 1980 I went so far as to write a book about what had happened. And I wrote all about the bank robbery, I went ahead and printed it even though I had no use immunity for it.

Patty Hearst

#31. I went through a very lethargic period ... I was just sort of getting through every night and every day.

Patty Duke

#32. Violence is a problem we all want to solve. I want to make sure that kids learn to deal with anger by learning how to talk with people to solve problems. Here in the United States Senate I want to make sure we have safe schools, safe neighborhoods and good things for kids to do after school!

Patty Murray

#33. I've come to believe that whoever I am didn't start on December 14, 1946, and isn't going to end on whatever that mysterious date is in the future.

Patty Duke

#34. I just want to remind everybody that it's Columbus Day. That all those of you that know Italians and like Italians are the people that might venture on to a ship and travel to explore and find new lands, this is your day. It's not St. Patty's Day. That's a different day entirely.

Les Miles

#35. Lily exited the dark chamber of the bookseller's store clutching a small book in her grubby hands, content with her purchase. Her voice was hoarse from selling trinkets all

Patty Apostolides

#36. Life's about changing. Nothing ever stays the same.

Patty Loveless

#37. Patty believed that parents have a duty to teach their children how to recognize reality when they see it.

Jonathan Franzen

#38. The Republicans can send the nation into turmoil, but we will not come to any agreement that does not include new revenue - and not just token new revenue. It is their choice.

Patty Murray

#39. The Bible is clear: Truth exists. It can be known. And when we ground our beliefs in it, we are rational.

Patty Houser

#40. I want to make sure that all kids get a good education and enjoy what they learn.

Patty Murray

#41. Often I have to move my body in a certain way, like exercising, to begin to get into the right rhythm for writing a song.

Patty Griffin

#42. A hand held tightly, never to really let go.
Fills up life around you, for the comforts within our soul.

Patty Smith

#43. The drums are what drives the whole thing. It's the backbone of the song.

Patty Schemel

#44. But now Americans, they felt a sense of peace and protection because they've been separated by so many thousands of miles of ocean. And you know, the fact that it's come to the U.S. like this is so sad, and yet you know, what can you do? It's here.

Patty Hearst

#45. He'd like you to join the club that likes to say
there's no such thing as love ...

Patty Griffin

#46. I am a mom as well as a senator!

Patty Murray

#47. I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll.

Patty Duke

#48. It's kind of odd when you think of Loretta Lynn, when she was first traveling and recording country music. It was all built through word of mouth. If you pleased the fans, they would pass it around to their friends and family.

Patty Loveless

#49. I grew up as a Catholic, and there was so much that was beautiful there, and also so much that was troubling. The whole patriarchal thing, the whole male-dominated approach, really bothered me.

Patty Griffin

#50. I like the thought of playing for money instead of silverware. I never did like to polish.

Patty Sheehan

#51. The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure.

Patty Duke

#52. I had been very close to Anne Bancroft when we worked together in The Miracle Worker.

Patty Duke

#53. I think listeners are hungry to hear quality.

Patty Griffin

#54. It's occurred to me I need to laugh at myself more, and that I don't need to be some sad folk singer all the time. I don't want to be the queen of pain.

Patty Griffin

#55. I see success as bringing some confidence back to the American people that despite our differences, we can find some ways to move forward.

Patty Murray

#56. I have a picture of myself in my mind as I walk around every day, until I look in the mirror-and then I'm stunned.

Patty Duke

#57. There is - you know, there's receipts for rented cars and license plates and guns and hand prints and palm prints and fingerprints. You know, I want to wait until I'm in a court.

Patty Hearst

#58. What we do every St. Patty's day, which is wear green and drink a lot of Guinness. And maybe cry a little bit and laugh, and everyone will have to sing a song. That's how every funeral, christening, and wedding ends up in Ireland. Everyone ends up having to sing a song by the end of it.

Saoirse Ronan

#59. Stating a truth in an emotional way does not make what we say irrational; our beliefs being severed from truth and reality do.

Patty Houser

#60. I was not inside the bank. But I am still not the only witness.

Patty Hearst

#61. Good-byes are hard, but life is about changes.

Patty Loveless

#62. It's funny, how you realize things too late. Someone once said to me the tragedy about life is that you understand it backwards. But I don't think so. I think the tragedy about life is there is no tragedy - you just don't know it till you die."
- Patty Belle Bellani

Marianne Macdonald

#63. From the age of 12, I had an understanding that singing was something I loved to do more than anything, and I did say to myself, 'Why not?' But there were definitely some doubts along the way.

Patty Griffin

#64. We were such a part of everybody's life in the Second World War. We represented something overseas and at home - a sort of security.

Patty Andrews

#65. Along the way, I've had different advice from different music producers. I've been told to tone it down, that the quiet parts of my voice are appealing and there's harshness to the loud part of my voice.

Patty Griffin

#66. We haven't been out in many of these countries helping them build infrastructure. How would they look at us today if we had been there helping them with some of that, rather than just being the people who are going to bomb in Iraq and go to Afghanistan?

Patty Murray

#67. Guess what - I am one of the ONLY senators in the whole United States Senate that is computer literate!

Patty Murray

#68. Retirement in another country is your body is too racked with pain and your hands are too arthritic from the life in the rice patty fields, so you can't work anymore.

Henry Rollins

#69. There is nothing new about these Republican attacks on our family planning decisions. In fact, from the moment they came into power, Republicans in the House of Representatives have been waging a war on women's health.

Patty Murray

#70. It's a wonderful day for me, I made it to 80.

Patty Berg

#71. I have everything I prayed for. I know most would condemn me and think I've lost my soul, but I know in my heart that I have not. What can be more precious than to find true love.

Patty G. Henderson

#72. I'm not sure I want all my neuroses cleared up.

Patty Duke

#73. The FDA is redefining birth control as abortion. The FDA is setting the bar higher for this kind of drug.

Patty Murray

#74. But darling, I wish you well On your way to the wishing well

Patty Griffin

#75. For a person that's on tour, the environment is difficult. I don't want to come off sounding like, "Oh, it's so hard!," but it gets tough, after awhile. You need to take care of yourself. You need to sleep and you need to eat. Those things are hard to keep on any kind of routine.

Patty Schemel

#76. I get around nature. I have a vegetable garden, and I enjoy being outside. I do work quite a bit around the house.

Patty Loveless

#77. You see, I think love comes from God. And so, to turn away from love, real love, it could be argued, is to turn away from God.

Patty Campbell

#78. My parents got carried away with the letter P when they were naming the kids in our family. There's me, Paula, my sisters Peggy and Patty, and my brother Pjimmy, spelled with a silent P.

Paula Poundstone

#79. Even to me, as I was trying to tell the government what had happened, it just didn't seem to matter.

Patty Hearst

#80. We were very fortunate, because we had so many hits, so we'd be singing out all hits.

Patty Andrews

#81. Enjoy the successes that you have, and don't be too hard on yourself when you don't do well. Too many times we beat up on ourselves. Just relax and enjoy it

Patty Sheehan

#82. I had been, you know, held in the closet for two months and, you know, abused in all manner of ways. I was very good at doing what I was told.

Patty Hearst

#83. To love God with our hearts and our minds, let's resolve to glorify God by not being women who fool others or who are easily fooled ourselves. Avoiding a bad thought day depends on it.

Patty Houser

#84. You can have manic-depression without having an ounce of creativity.

Patty Duke

#85. Funding privatized accounts with Social Security dollars would not only make the program's long term problems worse, but many believe it represents a first step toward undermining the program's fundamental goals.

Patty Murray

#86. The man cocked his gun and Patty had time for one last thought: I wish, I wish, I wish I could take this back.

Gillian Flynn

#87. When I listen to my own records, I always think, 'Oh, I could have sung that so much better.' But you have to finish something and turn it in. If I didn't have folks who say, 'Come on, we need the record now,' I probably would never finish one.

Patty Loveless

#88. Simply, with a Republican Congress sitting shotgun, Mitt Romney will put the middle class on the roof and take us for a long, painful ride.

Patty Murray

#89. It is astonishing how much enjoyment one can get out of a language that one understands imperfectly. - Basil Gildersleeve D

Ann Patty

#90. When I don't know what the music is going to be for a scene, I imagine some sort of orchestration going on and damned if they don't usually come up with a similar kind of thing.

Patty Duke

#91. She never gave up adoring our father, but he ceased to be, for her, the larger-than-life hero I continued to make him into. For Patty, he was more like a deeply lovable spaniel who keeps peeing on the rug and chewing on the upholstery, no matter how many times you tell him not to.

Joyce Maynard

#92. George Jones was a big, huge name in our household. George Jones-he is considered country, but in every genre he is known. Everybody knows George Jones. But George has such a unique voice. And he made such timeless songs, like "Color of the Blues", just real hard-core country stuff.

Patty Loveless

#93. And here in Los Angeles, once again, I'm going to go down and be a witness. There's a guilty plea. I don't mind being on the witness stand, but I think they mind it a lot.

Patty Hearst

#94. It's uncomfortable, definitely, but it's also really, really great to talk drums with kids and hear them get excited about music and talk about listening to the drums.

Patty Schemel

#95. I frankly don't think it's going to be a successful war on terrorism until law enforcement agencies like the FBI are willing to share with other law enforcement agencies. If they can't share information, there's no way this war can be won.

Patty Hearst

#96. And like a fool who will never see the truth
I keep thinking something's gonna change
There's a danger in loving somebody too much
And it's sad when you know it's your heart they can't touch
There's a reason why people don't stay who they are
Baby sometimes love's just ain't enough

Patty Smyth

#97. I feel like I'm 11 again, with my drums. It doesn't matter if it's good or bad. I'm just playing.

Patty Schemel

#98. The doctors must tell you that one of the risks of surgery is that you might die. This poor doctor was talking to an actress. It was very dramatic to me. To him, it was just a thing he had to say.

Patty Duke

#99. I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination.

Patty Duke

#100. I kind of like the position of being the fair-haired savior of my mother.

Patty Duke

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