Quotes & Sayings About Crosby

I want to reward this city. Pittsburgh is a great hockey town. — Sidney Crosby

In football, every play, play after play, there's that physicality. Football players only play once a week, so they must really need to rest. That does kind of tell you how physical the sport is. But in hockey, you have the boards. I just couldn't say which is more physical. — Sidney Crosby

It isn't what you find, it's what you do about what you find. — Phil Crosby

Redeemed how I love to proclaim it. Redeemed by the blood of the Lamb. Redeemed thru His infinite mercy His child and forever I am. — Fanny Crosby

I think tonight's the night I will hang Howard W. Campbell Jr., for crimes against himself... They say that a hanging man hears gorgeous music. Too bad that I, like my father, unlike my musical mother, am tone-deaf. All the same I hope the tune that I'm about to hear is not Bing Crosby's 'White Christmas — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Sometimes I need to reject the music proposed for my songs because the musicians misunderstand that the Fanny Crosby who once wrote for the people in the saloons has merely changed the lyrics. Oh my no. The church must never sing it's songs to the melodies of the world. — Fanny Crosby

Bing was always hesitant to accept appreciation in any form. — Bob Crosby

In my situation there are often things I need to do for the team, so when I get the chance to relax it's all I want to do. — Sidney Crosby

A strange lot this, to be dropped down in a world of barbarians - men who see clearly enough the barbarity of all ages except their own. — Ernest Howard Crosby

Frank (Frank Sinatra) is a singer who comes along once in a lifetime, but why did he have to come in mine? — Bing Crosby

If you feel empty, you are right on the verge of God's greatest blessing. Just seek His face. Should you be desperate and hurting and experiencing loss, remember that the Lord lifts up the downcast and casts down the proud. He will in His own good time turn your mourning into joy. — Timothy E. Crosby

I'm a writer; I've worked as much as a writer as I have as an actor, so I was in a script-note session at Imagine for a TV show I wrote that they were producing, and they happened to say, 'You'd be great as Crosby, do you want to do this show we're doing, 'Parenthood?' — Dax Shepard

If we deliver on time, but the product has defects, we have not delivered on time. — Phil Crosby

It is of course, entirely possible that men (or anyone who is relatively privileged) are most defensive, most obstinate and unseeing when they are worried about losing privileges ... In the reactions of husbands, I detect a haunting worry about what they will lose when true gender equality arrives. — Faye J Crosby

It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most, and, the true gift in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself. — Cathy Lee Crosby

I always wanted to be the best and to get the most out of myself. — Sidney Crosby

You are going to be measured anyway by some means, fair or foul. Usually the one doing the measuring has nothing specific in mind; so he does it by the seat of his pants. Careers are destroyed in this manner. — Phil Crosby

I can't legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me. — David Crosby

Just having the pain of being alive without anything else, whether it's good or bad. There's a lot of serious songs on the record, you know. That song is just about feeling like a fish out of water, feeling like you don't belong on the planet sometimes. — Jon Crosby

All good things spring from Self-Love — N. Sophronia Crosby

Generally we don't really consciously do it as a purpose-driven thing ... It's really just a response to life. — David Crosby

Nature had found the perfect place to hide the yellow fever virus. It seeded itself and grew in the blood, blooming yellow and running red. — Molly Caldwell Crosby

You can lose people without them dying, and I have, from moving, from traveling. The emotion is real, it just doesn't actually have to do with death. I'm singing about what I know, and it's a song about longing for somebody who's disappeared in your life. — Jon Crosby

Breakaway goals are fun. — Sidney Crosby

The customer deserves to receive exactly what we have promised to produce - a clean room, a hot cup of coffee, a nonporous casing, a trip to the moon on goassamer wings. — Phil Crosby

No one could tell me where my soul might be;
I searched for God but he eluded me;
I sought my brother out and found all three. — Ernest Howard Crosby

It's been really slow obviously, but I'm not worried about that. I feel like from where I was a couple months ago, things are a lot better. Just being able to skate and stuff was encouraging. Hopefully the next step doesn't have any hurdles. — Sidney Crosby

Being a hippy was the most natural thing in the world to me. — David Crosby

In all, I was in 16 movies, including 'The Bishop's Wife' with Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven; I was in 'Rio Grande' with John Wayne, 'Albuquerque' with Randall Scott, 'Blue Skies' with Bing Crosby and 'Hans Christian Anderson' with Danny Kaye. — Karolyn Grimes

If your eyes hurt after you drink coffee, you have to take the spoon out of the cup. — Norm Crosby

In the United States, the person who led the fight to reform treatment of the mentally ill and to develop asylums was Dorothea Dix. Often neglected in history, Dix was a nurse — Molly Caldwell Crosby

It definitely seems like we are connecting with people, which is nice, because I've had a lot of music do the same for me. It's not like I don't I understand why we get the reactions we do. — Jon Crosby

I write very sporadically. I write sometimes three things in a week and then nothing for a year. I make a space for it but I don't push it. They just come and they come. — David Crosby

Challenging someone is good. You need to do it. Sometimes they don't even realize you're doing it, like when you joke with a goalie, 'What's wrong today? You losing it?' — Sidney Crosby

I try to stay pretty level-headed and just do what I have to do. — Sidney Crosby

Right away I thought I'd been hit by a hand grenade ... her (Joni Mitchells') voice, those words ... she nailed me to the back wall with two-inch spikes ... I promptly fell in love with her ... — David Crosby

He was a Crosby, Stills and Nash song. He loved the one he was with. He was casual with a capital C. — Amy Andrews

We'd dub the one that came off best into the final transcription. It gave us a chance to ad lib as much as we wanted, knowing that excess ad libbing could be sliced from the final product. — Bing Crosby

Oh what a happy soul am I although I cannot see, I am resolved that in this world contented I shall be. How many blessings I enjoy that other people don't. To weep and sigh, because I'm blind? I cannot and I won't. — Fanny Crosby

I have been practising since I was 4 or 5 years old, but that wasn't really practice. I was just having fun ... I just loved to play hockey. — Sidney Crosby

At least the rap metal stuff is good, but it's not really my bag. I've been listening to the radio since we've been touring the past month, because we don't get it most of the time. — Jon Crosby

I was the first spokesperson for the Better Hearing Institute in Washington. And that's the message we tried to send out - there is hearing help out there, and the technology and options are amazing. — Norm Crosby

I don't think being angry is useful or healthy, and usually when I get angry, my brain just goes right out the window. Boom, as soon as the adrenaline hits, instant stupid. Just add water and mix. — David Crosby

I wish you could have seen the kitchen when I was done: It looked like a hurricane had blown right in the door! But I cleaned it all up, and when Mother came home the whole house smelled warm and spicy, Bing Crosby was singing "White Christmas" on the radio, I was wearing a clean apron, and she called me her "little homemaker."
What would you think about tomato mincemeat cookies? I bet no one else will think of that! — Ruth Reichl

I don't like greed, I don't like ignorance. I really don't like anger. But I love love. — David Crosby

I want to be the best, so whatever comes with that, I'll have to accept. — Sidney Crosby

There are a lot of people who look great but can't sing. — David Crosby

But in my mind, I don't think there's any question Sidney Crosby is the best all-around player in the game. His hockey sense is so strong and so solid, combined with his God-gifted talent of being able to see the ice, see the entire picture in front of him. And, most importantly, I don't care how good you are, if you don't have a work ethic, it doesn't matter. There's no question that each and every game, he's one of the hardest-working guys on the ice. In my mind, he's the best player in the game today. — Wayne Gretzky

Unfortunately time is the master of us all; it takes what it will, and often there are no words to ease the emptiness of what is gone. — Bette Lee Crosby

I think any band we played with would be a weird match. We're on our own, a little out there, but it's a good thing. I think we're complimentary to each other. — Jon Crosby

AUGUSTINE: People love truth when it shines on them and hate it when it rebukes them. For, — Cindy Crosby

I watched 'Mighty Ducks.' 'Slapshot' when I was a little older. — Sidney Crosby

A rule to live by: I won't use anything I can't explain in five minutes. — Phil Crosby

What are you working on?" Chris had asked. "Nothing," Zoe replied, her fingers freezing on the keyboard. — Tanya Anne Crosby

God will answer you prayers better than you think. Of course, one will not always get exactly what he has asked for ... We all have sorrows and disappointments, but one must never forget that, if commended to God, they will issue in good ... His own solution is far better than any we could conceive. — Fanny J. Crosby

My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses, you know, singing folk music and then, later, singing songs that I started to write myself, I felt more than an affinity for it. — David Crosby

Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident. — Phil Crosby

There's no doubt I'm emotional. — Sidney Crosby Hockey Player

I'm most comfortable definitely when I'm on the ice. I love to play. It's something that I just love to do. — Sidney Crosby

I get egotistical about things where I can do something well - for example, my singing. Most other things, I don't have the wherewithal to back it up. — David Crosby

Bing Crosby and I weren't the types to go around kissing each other. We always had a light jab for each other. One of our stock lines used to be "There's nothing I wouldn't do for Bing, and there's nothing he wouldn't do for me." And that's the way we go through life - doing nothing for each other! — Bob Hope

I was terrified. My first week, walking around in a teeny bikini, I kept crossing my arms over my chest because I was afraid I was going to fall out of the top of the suit. And I didn't know anything about technique or lighting. — Mary Crosby

That was a surprise. I just had wished that Wil Wheaton was there. He was missing from the last show and it would have been nice if everyone could have been there. — Denise Crosby

I'm not the Ambassador," said Crosby. "I wish I was, but I'm just a plain, ordinary business man. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Anyone who wishes to combine domestic responsibilities and paid employment with the least stress and most enjoyment might start by pondering this paradox: the first step to better functioning is to stop blaming herself for not functioning well enough. — Faye J Crosby

When the preacher says it's for better or worse, you're so blinded by the possibility of better you fail to see the reality of worse. — Bette Lee Crosby

It's said that only gypsies have the true gift of looking at a person and seeing their future, so I was happy as a red hen when she said a man named Doyle would be loving me for the whole of my life and then some. — Bette Lee Crosby

That Canadian team had a bunch of guys who are in the 1 percent: Crosby, Getzlaf, Perry, Carter, Richards and Weber - guys who would win Olympic gold and make $8 and $10 million a season down the line. Though a player might be in that 1 percent, no team is, not as a group. — Patrick O'Sullivan

I feel comfortable, I'm definitely feeling challenged but with each day I gain more
experience. I'm just trying to improve each day. — Sidney Crosby

Because when I get to heaven, the first face that shall ever gladden my sight will be that of my Savior. — Fanny Crosby

All wars would end immediately if the various chiefs of state dropped a little LSD. — David Crosby

Often, we tend to wrap ourselves around him so tight that we neglect our mission, our purpose, our calling, sometimes our children and even our God — N. Sophronia Crosby

A lot of show business, as you know, is about all the contacts you make and who you know. — Denise Crosby

You know how I came up with the name 'Road to the Super Bowl?' It's an homage to the old Bob Hope - Bing Crosby buddy movies - you know, like 'Road to Zanzibar' or 'Road to Morocco.' Can you tell? All I've done my whole life is go to movies. — Steve Sabol

Chords that were broken will vibrate once more. — Fanny Crosby

The Lord listens in all those places. They're just different slices of the same pie. — Bette Lee Crosby

If we each had to butcher our own meat, there would be a great increase in the number of vegetarians. — Ernest Howard Crosby

When you get a typical injury, you're given a time frame; you're gradually working towards getting back. With concussions, there is not generally a time frame or a span where you're feeling better. You feel like you're getting better, and it can be one day and you're back to where you started. — Sidney Crosby

Dreams are so important. You need to have big goals and expect a lot of yourself but you have to enjoy the ride too. — Sidney Crosby

Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric. — Phil Crosby

I can enjoy a vacation as well as the next person, as long as I know it's a vacation and not a premature retirement. — Mary Crosby

Though we hear various reports of his existence we can never find the young wizard who is able so they say to graft the soul of a girl to the soul of her lover so that not even the sharp scissors of the Fates can ever sever them apart. — Harry Crosby

As sorry as I feel for myself, I feel even sorrier for her. I know she's afraid of staying and equally as frightened of going. Just as this land is a part of me, this house is a part of her. Selling off these things piece by piece is like cutting away chunks of her heart. I promised to make it better, but only God knows whether or not that's a promise I'll be able to keep. — Bette Lee Crosby

Nature's standard operating procedure, pairing a population explosion with a population crash. — Alfred W. Crosby

Norah Jones is a breath of fresh air. Norah Jones can sing and play. She's got some talent. I was totally ecstatic that that girl got noticed, because she's wonderful. — David Crosby

I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive,' for me, is very simple. It's just about alienation, really, that causes anger. — Jon Crosby

Lennon had a good point when he said that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus, the Beatles have a longer Wikipedia page. — Zachary Crosby

I need to reach a lot of people to sell records. — Jon Crosby

I am doing what I love to do. — Sidney Crosby

Sometimes the entire thing comes out in one burst. Sometimes you hack away at a thing for years before you get something that satisfies you. — David Crosby

Concussions are still kind of a mysterious thing. — Sidney Crosby

I come in, fuck shit up, grab my bitches, and proceed home." My mentality entering every social function. — Jamee N. Crosby

We were just two people headed in the same direction, and walking together was better than walking alone. Love should be more than that. — Bette Lee Crosby

Wouldn't it be amazing, getting up everyday and playing; doing something that you love to do? — Sidney Crosby

Chestnut brown canary, ruby throated sparrow, sing a song, don't be long, thrill me to the marrow. — Sidney Crosby

I have a pretty clear picture of the whole weight of my life, and there are things that I've done that are good, and I'm proud of them. There are things that I'm really not proud of, and that they, you have to look at me with a perspective, and I try really hard to do that, to keep from thinking I'm cool and ever so smart. — David Crosby

When I was 11 years old, my parents wanted me to do something besides get in trouble. So they enrolled me in sailing classes at the Sea Shell Association in Santa Barbara, Calif. From the moment I climbed into that 8-foot dinghy in 1952, I knew instinctively what to do and sensed I had done it before. — David Crosby

What I remember most about the 'Road' movies is my enjoyment at watching the two characters sparring with each other. But more important than that was my feeling that Hope and Crosby were enjoying the sparring, too. — Frank Oz

To let politics become a cesspool, and then avoid it because it is a cesspool, is a double crime. — Howard Crosby

I met Elvis first in Las Vegas. I think I was appearing with Tom Jones and he came backstage to say hello to Tom or we went to his dressing room to say hello. — Norm Crosby