Nothing Given Everything Earned Quotes & Sayings

I stand on the shoulders of giants that have gone before me, in terms of affording people like myself, women, the access to democracy, the vote, medical treatment, education, everything that I've been given. It's all been earned. Therefore I feel it's incumbent on me personally to just contribute something, to add to a collective voice that needs to be here right now, to build it up to a tipping point, to make the world aware that women's rights still have to be addressed and that the word 'feminism' has been devalued and needs to be reclaimed. — Annie Lennox

Everything in my life boils down to my mother. A tradition, which a lot of people do not know of, is that while I'd give my father the money I earned, anything that was special to me - like an award or an album - would be given to my mother. — Sonu Nigam

We can't bear it when things are displayed at their brightest, fullest rainbow colours. We can't bear it, but, when it's gone, we love it, because it's suddenly safe, it can't come back or change. It can't rise up stronger. — Pete Burns

Was parenting ever going to get easier? Did you ever reach a point where you could stop worrying? — Lisa Kleypas

The world's most sensible and the most idiotic person lies within us..
the worst part is we can't say who is who — Chetan Bhagat

But, hey I did everything the right way and earned my spot in this game, nothing was given to me. — Shaquille O'Neal

She had loved him, uselessly. — Margaret Atwood

There is a place in the heart that
will never be filled
a space
and even during the
best moments
and
the greatest times
times
we will know it
we will know it
more than
ever
there is a place in the heart that
will never be filled
and
we will wait
and
wait
in that space. — Charles Bukowski

In Northeast Ohio, nothing is given. Everything is earned. You work for what you have. — LeBron James

And if flying, like a glass-bottomed bucket, can give you that vision, that seeing eye, which peers down on the still world below the choppy waves - it will always remain magic. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

When I was a boy, I naively thought that this thing called happiness would be something I would wake up to find every day once I could smoke, drink and fornicate. — Jeffrey Bernard