Pattie Quotes & Sayings

I think men are mainly unfaithful because as they get older, they feel the urge to prove to themselves that they are still attractive. They need proof from outside the marriage. It's really sad. It's all about them. It's not about their wives at all. — Pattie Boyd

To my abusers: I forgive you. — Pattie Mallette

Those who are hardest to love need it the most — Pattie Mallette

One grows up thinking you will naturally be able to have children, and when it doesn't happen, it's a shock. But I just feel that it wasn't meant to be. — Pattie Boyd

Oh my God ... YOU are real.
Oh my God ... You ARE real.
OH MY GOD ... You are REAL!
Oh my God ... You're really real! — Pattie Mallette

I think modelling is a very difficult thing. It's glamorous and fun, but underneath it all, you know your flaws, and those are what you focus on. — Pattie Boyd

I told Pattie that last night I dreamt that we had a press conference and nobody showed up. I am overwhelmed that so many of you are here. — LaVell Edwards

At 3, I played an innocent game of doctor, minus the stethoscope and medicine bag. — Pattie Mallette

Those that are the hardest to love, need it the most. — Pattie Mallette

For the most part, each day listed a different rendition of "Justin ate well" and "Justin took a great nap". Every now and then they noted Justin doing unusual things, like biting. I was embarrassed to read "Justin is biting his friends again" or "Justin did better with biting and only bit one boy". Other than that, though, my son was a pretty happy-go-lucky kid. — Pattie Mallette

My son is not a public figure to me, he is my son. I can't predict what's going to be in the headlines. Justin has always been someone who has to do things his way. And I have to be able to believe he will do the right thing and he will come out on top. — Pattie Mallette

I try to eat healthy, but being Belgian, I'm also addicted to chocolate. — Pattie Maes

I never wanted to be an actress. I didn't have any ambition in that area. — Pattie Boyd

I didn't have boyfriends until my late teens. I was at a girls' boarding school, and my stepfather disapproved of me going out with anybody. I never really came across any boys. When I did, one of them asked me out, and I was petrified. I felt like a fish out of water, and it was excruciating. — Pattie Boyd

I feel very lucky that I was part of that whole scene in the '60s and '70s. I love looking at the photographs because everyone was young, and they were so gorgeous to look at. — Pattie Boyd

I really want to help people. I really want to give somebody that hope that they need to keep going. — Pattie Mallette

I'm blessed with the fact that I'm a fighter. I've always known life was meant to be joyful. — Pattie Boyd

I had a fiery affair with George Harrison's wife, Pattie Boyd. — Ronnie Wood

During my childhood, I felt older than my years because I felt responsible for my brothers and sisters. — Pattie Boyd

I went through a lot of abuse and a lot of really difficult things growing up - depression, anxiety, attempted suicide. — Pattie Mallette

One day I was 17 years old and I ended up trying to commit suicide and I ended up in the hospital. As a teenager, that was a really scary thing. — Pattie Mallette

I think there's a path cut for us, a destination mapped out. Everyone ends up where they're meant to be, and how they got there doesn't really matter. — Pattie Boyd

Go to the beginning. — Pattie Mallette

When life gets you down... stand on top of it. — Pattie Thomas

I think it's hard for any parent to see anything negative said or done against your child and, when you can't directly do something about it, it's hard. — Pattie Mallette

I can't rewrite history. — Pattie Boyd

I was a firm believer that if you get married, then that should be it. But it's sadly not always the case; sometimes people can't remain together for whatever reason. — Pattie Boyd

It was great fun to hang around the Beatles. They had amazingly fast minds, and they were incredibly amusing and funny and witty. They were great. There was a very high energy surrounding them. — Pattie Boyd

Sometimes God makes you wait, Pattie. And then wait some more. And sometimes even right at the last minute, He makes you wait just a little bit longer until He comes through. It's how you learn to trust in Him. — Pattie Mallette

My spiritual high naturally dissipated. At some point you've got to come out of the clouds and live real life. Again, it's just like falling in love. The feeling of euphoria is only temporary. — Pattie Mallette

I've been intrigued by this question of whether we could evolve or develop a sixth sense - a sense that would give us seamless access and easy access to meta-information or information that may exist somewhere that may be relevant to help us make the right decision about whatever it is that we're coming across. — Pattie Maes

On first impressions, John seemed more cynical and brash than the others, Ringo the most endearing, Paul was cute, and George, with velvet brown eyes and dark chestnut hair, was the best-looking man I'd ever seen. At the break for lunch I found myself sitting next to him, whether by accident or design I have never been sure. We were both shy and spoke hardly a word to each other, but being close to him was electrifying. — Pattie Boyd

People say it's cathartic to write a book, but it turned out to be quite painful! — Pattie Boyd

One fleece down, one to go. — Pattie Mallette

The most common metaphor for careers is a ladder, but this concept no longer applies to most workers. As of 2010, the average American had eleven jobs from the ages of eighteen to forty-six alone.1 This means that the days of joining an organization or corporation and staying there to climb that one ladder are long gone. Lori often quotes Pattie Sellers, who conceived a much better metaphor: "Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder. — Sheryl Sandberg

I think I lost my sense of identity when I was married. I know I did. And it took me a very long time to regain it and find out who I was. — Pattie Boyd

Pattie saw grief. Her eyes focused on a version of her own young self, and so many other children in Vietnam who grew up without parents, some abandoned because of their ethnicity, others because of tragedy. And her arms reached out wide. — Holly Goldberg Sloan

It wasn't until I realised that I could actually take nice photographs that I started to become passionate about it. I then got a few jobs working for magazines in London, and I would get terribly excited and intense about doing a job and taking photographs and looking through the lens to capture something amazing. — Pattie Boyd

Once I've taken photographs, I look at them, and I get into them, and I'm there for the moment - and then that's it. I find little time for reflection. — Pattie Boyd

When I was growing up, we always had music playing in our household. I enjoy spending time with my father singing. — Pattie Brooks

I am not one of those people who lives for work. I enjoy sculpting and photography and tennis and swimming. I simply do not have enough time. My life is not in control. — Pattie Maes

It's such a joy to be able to have friendships free from worry. It's so lovely to live without fear. — Pattie Boyd

I had never been allowed to go on tour with my husband George Harrison, so had no idea what to expect when I left him to join Eric Clapton on his 1974 U.S. tour. — Pattie Boyd

When you get knocked down you get knocked down in Round 1 of life, there's Round 2. — Pattie Mallette

Musicians always have music in their heads about their perceptions of the world. — Pattie Boyd

When you're married to somebody iconic, people tend to notice him. — Pattie Boyd

I loved everything that went with rock n' roll. I loved being at the heart of such creativity and being young in such a stimulating and exciting era. — Pattie Boyd

Men find it more difficult than women to be alone. They function better with someone in their lives. Being married, they are rooted, so they feel safe to go and do what they want to do. — Pattie Boyd

I'm one of these people who couldn't imagine the future. The future never occurred to me. I just loved life every day. — Pattie Boyd

Getting into my teen years, I was filled with so much shame and pain that I got really involved with drugs and alcohol. I was hanging out with the wrong people and getting involved in the wrong relationships and everything just sort of spun out of control. — Pattie Mallette

The Maharishi had invited us all to go to India to his ashram in the Indian Himalaya. We were there studying meditation for two and a half months. While the other three Beatles went back to London to start the beginning of their Apple empire, George and I went to Madras for a week's relaxation. I took this photograph of George one morning, as I thought the light on his face was lovely. I think this was the last time that I saw him looking so calm. — Pattie Boyd

I love life. There's so much to learn and see all the time, and nothing nicer for me than to wake up, and the sky is blue. — Pattie Boyd

By the time I got to the phone and dialed John's number, I was out of breath with excitement. "You are not going to believe this," I blurted out.
"What's the matter?" Hr sounded concerned.
"Are you sitting down?"
"Yeah, sure, Pattie. What's wrong?" God only knows what John was thinking at this point.
"GOD IS REAL!" I practically shouted in his ear. I waited for John to react in a dramatic way, almost disbelieving way. I expected him to say, "No way! C'mon! Get out of town!" After all, I thought I was telling him something he didn't already know, something that would turn his world upside down like it did mine. — Pattie Mallette

I do have a right to talk about my life, to tell my truth from my perspective. — Pattie Boyd

It was daylight and I drove everyone home - I was driving a Mini with John and Cynthia and Pattie in it. I seem to remember we were doing eighteen miles an hour and I was really concentrating - because some of the time I just felt normal and then, before I knew where I was, it was all crazy again. Anyway, we got home safe and sound, and somewhere down the line John and Cynthia got home. I went to bed and lay there for, like, three years. — George Harrison

It's hard to be vulnerable in front of the whole world because everyone's a critic. — Pattie Mallette

We like to invent new disciplines or look at new problems, and invent bandwagons rather than jump on them. — Pattie Maes

People blame the 1960s for just about everything these days, but it was the decade when all that post-war furtiveness and small-mindedness was finally blown open, and opportunity really came knocking. — Pattie Boyd

I've been avoiding journalists my whole life. — Pattie Boyd

Women hang onto the romanticism of a relationship. But a man compartmentalises it into the past and then gets on with his new life. — Pattie Boyd

When you hit rock bottom, you have nowhere to go but up. — Pattie Mallette

No matter what projects I'm taking on, I want to (do) things to help other people. — Pattie Mallette

I know some people need counseling but not everyone can afford it. — Pattie Mallette

My dad abandoned me when I was about two years old. So, he wasn't around to protect me the way I needed to be protected. I started getting sexually abused from the time I was about five years old to the time I was ten. It really messed with my sense of self worth and my sense of all that was good with the world, almost. — Pattie Mallette

I wasn't really terribly familiar with the Beatles when I met George. They were just emerging. They certainly weren't as big as they became later on. I just knew them as a pop group, and that's all. I was keener on George as a man and a person, as opposed to someone in a band. — Pattie Boyd