Top 100 Ups Quotes
#1. We've had our ups and downs since then, but that's what families have, ups and downs.
Neil Gaiman
#2. Friendships are the most important thing you can have in your life. Sometimes they have their ups and downs. Sometimes it's your fault and sometimes it's not. But the key to handling those ups and downs is to remember that good friends will always find their way back to each other.
Carmen Rodrigues
#3. Harmonizing heart and brain through love is what can establish a complete intelligence, a complete self, where a child can look at life and realize there are no dead ends, there are always possibilities. The greatest gift a parent can give a child during all the ups and downs of life is love.
Doc Childre
#4. I showed the grown ups my maasterpiece, andI asked them if my drawing scared them. They answered why be scared of a hat? My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#5. I wear a lot of tight dresses, so I'm like, 'I need to do my sit-ups!'
Venus Williams
#6. I've had ups and downs with my skin, but after some time, I've learned what works best and what products I need to stay away from.
Bethany Mota
#7. (Although I tried to always keep in mind something a friend had once told me: "Your demons may have been ejected from the building, but they're out in the parking lot, doing push-ups.") At
Dan Harris
#8. I rarely exercise at all, except I have some hand weights that I'll lift idly while I'm watching TV. I did do some push-ups last week and somehow hurt my shoulder.
Nick Antosca
#9. You have a lot of ups and downs in coaching, especially, but I can't remember any bad times at this point. I mean, they're all good. A lot of tears when you lose, a lot of down times, but I can't remember any of them. They're all positive now. Even the bad times were good.
Don Nelson
#10. Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.
Bruce Willis
#11. I can do things at 45, not because I can do a bunch of pull-ups, it's because I do Yoga!
Tony Horton
#12. Dramatic and emotional trading experiences tend to be negative. Pride is a great banana peel, as are hope, fear, and greed. My biggest slip-ups occurred shortly after I got emotionally involved with positions.
Ed Seykota
#13. I know people think that acting is not quite the occupation of grown-ups, but it is actually the ultimate learning process: You get a multitude of experiences, all for the price of one life.
Natalie Dormer
#14. I know how hard it is to send two kids to college when you ain't got nothing. I know people may not think of me in that way, but this business gives you ups and downs.
Gladys Knight
#15. Crunches are much more effective than regular sit-ups because they specifically target your upper abdominal muscles rather than your hip muscles. If you're not used to them, they can cause soreness a day or two later, but it's a 'cool' soreness. A badge of honor.
Sylvester Stallone
#16. Nobody's perfect. Everyone slides here and there, and they have their ups and downs. When they are down, that is not the time to step all over them.
Neal Schon
#17. Sure, we've had our fair share of ups and downs, but I don't know if we've had more than any other rock band ... we just have a way of getting ourselves into hot water.
Carl Wilson
#18. I am the happiest person on this world, who has never seen ups and downs in life. I got whatever I wished for ... And I woke up!
Rahul Rampal
#19. There are so many words I can use to describe the looks on people's faces. And for a long time I didn't get it. I'd just get mad. Mad when they stared. Mad when they looked away. "What the heck are you looking at?" I'd say to people - even grown-ups.
R.J. Palacio
#20. You have to be confident, but there are no easy at bats. There are no lay ups; there is no wide open pass. There is a guy on the mound who is trying to feed his family.
Giancarlo Stanton
#21. Unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
Moliere
#22. People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location.
Alice Walker
#23. Nobody treating us like kids. For once, we gt to be equals, not babies. Could use more of that in the twenty-first. Age doesn't make grown-ups.
Joss Whedon
#24. You need a lot of leaders, but a hockey team needs a voice, not only in the community, but more importantly between the coaching staff and the players. There are always ups and downs in a season; the captain is the guy players look to in those situations.
Joe Sakic
#25. Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the troughs that defines you.
Michael Lee-Chin
#26. I just don't like when there's a rumor that says I'm dating someone who is below my standards. But when I got divorced, my ex-wife said I was spending all my time with Lindsay Lohan and Angelina Jolie. I was like, 'Thank you for the big ups!'
Marilyn Manson
#27. Obviously in the world of sports, you go through different ups and downs than in normal life. You might be on top of the world playing or you're sidelined with an injury.
Tobin Heath
#28. We have this powerful lever at Google Ventures, which is to invest $200 million a year. This is a huge lever. It's not all going into one place; it's going into lots of start ups and founders and entrepreneurs, all of which are levers to try and change the world in one way or another.
Bill Maris
#29. We both had hang-ups, insecurities, and an addiction to each other that required regular contact to keep us functioning properly. I hated being apart from him. I rarely went more than a couple of hours without thinking of him.
Sylvia Day
#30. The reader's ear must adjust down from loud life to the subtle, imaginary sounds of the written word. An ordinary reader picking up a book can't yet hear a thing; it will take half an hour to pick up the writing's modulations, its ups and downs and louds and softs.
Annie Dillard
#31. Science goes through fads, and there are big ups and crashes.
Eric Betzig
#32. I am investing like a crazy person, mostly in internet start-ups. And I want to invest in Brazil as well, because I am Brazilian and that's in my heart.
Eduardo Saverin
#33. Only in high school when I began programming computers, did I become interested in tech and start-ups, which led me to attend Stanford and major in Computer Science.
Clara Shih
#34. There is still a perception that the way women are isn't necessarily what you need for the powerhouse start-ups.
Anita Borg
#35. You know, back in the old days adults were respected because of how wise they were, and people went to them to help settle disputes. Nowadays it's a whole different world, and half the time I wonder if grown-ups should really be in charge.
Jeff Kinney
#36. Have to start taking things mildly seriously, now! Ugh! Just the word sends shivers down my spine. Serious. Seeeerious. Cereal-ous. Trix are for kids. College is not for kids. College is for grown-ups.
Sara Wolf
#37. Life has its ups and downs ... Ride the downs and climb the ups!
Vaughn Ripley
#38. Dreamt all night of horticulture prospects of
in northland futures for horticulturalists versed
in cut-ups developing new strains new fruits
as for example "tremeloes
Wystan Curnow
#39. When you're part of an ensemble and share the screen with so many people, you become close to them because you're hanging out all the time. Obviously you have your ups and downs, but that kind of brings you closer in many ways.
Aidan Turner
#40. Little kids I don't mind. Every kid wants a pony. It's grown-ups that get my robe in a knot. Stop with the begging, okay? Adore me for a change. Or give thanks. I like gratitude. Or ask for guidance. But oh, no. It's always the pony.
Ron Koertge
#41. Ballet companies have their ups and downs, just like the rest of us.
Robert Gottlieb
#42. There's something peculiar about artists. They have ups and downs ... After a while everything you do is just wonderful ... then you slide back. If you're a good artist you're going to go down. And then it's up to you.
Milton Resnick
#43. Well, what family doesn't have its ups and downs?
James Goldman
#45. Even when I was a kid, I had a good thing with kids. To this day, if I go to a birthday party with one of my kids, I swear to you, I am so much happier hanging out with my kids and their friends than talking to the grown-ups.
Shawn Levy
#46. Why be bothered with other people's set-ups? it only leads to torture.
Bob Dylan
#47. The formula for a great story includes both the ups and downs of life.
Lisa Y. Potocar
#48. My mum told me that grown-ups don't like teenagers, which is the last thing you want to hear when you are one yourself!
Ella Eyre
#50. How lucky have we been that the face of baseball for the past two decades, through ups and downs, has been Derek Jeter.
Bud Selig
#51. I always do makeup touch-ups myself, especially for blood, wounds, and dirt. It saves so much time.
James Cameron
#52. For me adulthood is realising that there are no grown-ups and everyone else is winging it,
Sarah Beeny
#53. My parents have seen their ups-and-downs but are still married after 40 years, so that's something.
Davy Rothbart
#54. I was reminded again that there are so many things we need that can also hurt us: cars, knives, grown-ups.
Lena Dunham
#55. A fifteen-year-old dropped her cone, bent to retrieve it, then hesitated, abandoned the melting delicacy to the pavement and the soles of future passers-by; soon she would be one of the grown-ups and no longer lick ice cream in the street.
Gunter Grass
#56. I'm really more prolific than most stand-ups. My act changes. I do fold in new experiences, new observations, whatever you want to call it.
Paula Poundstone
#57. Life is not always perfect. Like a road, it has many bends, ups and down, but that's its beauty.
Amit Ray
#58. In putting setting to work, I like to think about long shots and close-ups. The long shot is the overall view of the place in which the characters live - the island, the town, the wide sweep of place. Then we narrow in. The close-up, the tight focus, makes the place different from anywhere else.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#59. Life has its ugliness and ups and downs, but look for the beauty and you will find it.
Debasish Mridha
#60. I suspect that he was a child who thought differently than his peers, who may have had serious conversations with grown-ups, who as a young person, like me, accepted being alone quite a lot. I think that this sort of person often becomes either a writer or a career criminal.
Anne Lamott
#61. Don't get bogged down by life and other people's problems or hang ups.
Angela Merkel
#62. Never seen my friends do more push-ups, trying to challenge Cruises' manhood. It was like, I can be strong, too!
Adam Sandler
#63. Relationships is not a game of amateurs is what people say..
But they begin to foster between amateurs and become a reason to make them matured grown-ups!
Sujit Lalwani
#64. Naturally, in this period, there are also some ups and downs, and this is nothing strange,
Jiang Zemin
#65. There's ups and downs in this love. Got a lot to learn in this love. Through the good and the bad, still got love.
Beyonce Knowles
#66. Talk of "types" should probably end around the same time you stop having pin-ups on your wall.
Mhairi McFarlane
#67. I have no hang-ups. I don't have to go to psychiatrists.
Dan Lauria
#68. This is my dream. I ain't giving up. I see a band like the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and they've had their ups and downs, but they've continued with heart. We look up to that. I see Papa Roach being around for another 15 years. We've always wanted to be a career band.
Jacoby Shaddix
#69. The ups and downs, the dreams and struggles, had all been part of the journey, she realized - a journey that led to a cattle ranch near a town called King, where she had fallen in love with a cowboy named Luke.
Nicholas Sparks
#70. A partner to share the ups and downs with. Honor and strength, and knowing you're stronger together than apart
Donna Alward
#71. I didn't have many ups and downs, and I just tried to par every hole.
Tiger Woods
#72. Part of the kick of making people laugh was doing something different. We were a rare breed - spotting one of us was like pinning a space alien, or abdominal snowman. There were maybe a hundred stand-ups in the whole country when I was doing it.
Lenny Bruce
#73. It wasn't a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.
Enid Blyton
#74. Unfortunately, it has come to my attention that the modern world is sorely lacking in imagination. And grown-ups are the biggest culprits of all.
Sarvenaz Tash
#75. Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.
Bob Lemon
#76. Irritated by the fact that the rules that always applied to children never seemed to apply to grown-ups at all (despite the fact that they were the ones who enforced them).
John Boyne
#77. Break-ups are hard for anybody, but it's particularly tough when it's being documented and you see the person's picture everywhere. Most people don't have that added problem when they break up with someone.
Winona Ryder
#78. The entire world of grown-ups is corrupt and stupid.
Matt Groening
#79. Life is filled with ups and downs, the one who perseveres can turn his life around.
Sherman Holmes
#80. I know when it's getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game time, to warm-ups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode.
Cam Newton
#81. From the bottom of my heart, I want to thank all the fans of Boston. I love those guys, they have been there for me in the ups and downs.
Manny Ramirez
#83. Gradually we can begin to cherish the preciousness of our whole life just as it is, with its ups and downs, its failures and successes, its roughness and smoothness.
Pema Chodron
#84. Life is full of constant ups and downs, and all I ask for is redemption in the end.
Robin Thicke
#85. I think that as you get older, you mellow out a lot more. Having been through the ups and downs in life, I feel more qualified to play the blues.
Mick Ralphs
#86. Unlike these powerful grown-ups, children have no ideologies to reinforce, no superstructure of political opinion to promote, no civic equanimity or image to defend, no personal reputation to secure.
Jonathan Kozol
#87. I don't think jogging is healthy, especially morning jogging. If morning joggers knew how tempting they looked to morning motorists, they would stay home and do sit-ups.
Rita Rudner
#88. Many women seem to have hang-ups about going out with me because they feel they have to be in the same shape that I am. If they're overweight, they're insecure, because they don't understand that I don't look at women the same way I look at myself.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#89. The local painters were my idols ... These artists, too, were grown-ups, but they were grown-ups who could still see! Their eye was still in love! Like mine!
Frederick Franck
#90. Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many ups and downs of fate.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#91. When I do my vocal warm-ups everyone calls me the dolphin because I do stupid siren noises.
Ella Henderson
#92. Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.
C.S. Lewis
#93. Children go from being a kind of cultural protectorate to the Junior Auxiliary of the tube-watching nation at large, and programs are designed for them on the same principle as they're designed for grown-ups: as a way to sell eyeballs to advertisers.
Jonathan Dee
#94. Set loose, a child would run down the paths, scramble up the rocks, lie on the earth. Grown-ups more often let their minds do the running, scrambling, and lying, but the emotion is shared. It feels good to be here.
David Miller
#95. You know you are going to go through your ups and downs in this game.
Tony Romo
#96. We are here for the evolution of our soul. This evolution happens through the management of both the ups and downs of physical life. Evolution is halted by pretending to be happy all the time
Renae A. Sauter
#97. Does madness bring creativity? Or does creativity cause madness? Can an artist create without the ups so high and the downs so low?
Megan Hart
#98. I've been so fortunate because I never really had ups and downs as far as my career. Ninety-nine percent of the time, I've been sold out all over the world.
Tony Bennett
#99. So, yes, life has its ups and downs. But those who learn to climb out of the downs and reach the ups will prosper.
Connor Franta
#100. Grief is an emotional rollercoaster.
You will have your ups and downs
and moments of terror
and brief moments of peace.
You can only go as fast
as the ride will take you.
Just remember:
It will end and you will be okay.
Kate McGahan
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