M.V. Carey Quotes

It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief.

Once I was a prisoner lost inside myself with the world surrounding me, wandering through the misery, but now I am free. Free to love, free to laugh, free to soar, free to shine, free to give.

See, I'm looking for a man that'll rub me slow, make me sing real high when he goes down low.

One day I promised God that if he would give me my voice back I would never smoke again. I got three octaves back after quitting.

Butterflies are always following me, everywhere I go.

When it comes to lingerie, I know what I'm doing.

No stress, no fights. I'm leaving it all behind. No tears, no time to cry. Just making the most of life.

Man, the molecule of society, is the subject of social science.

I think the toughest thing for me to figure out, as an actor, was how to translate all those layers that are in there and that history that the writers have done such a great job at forming.

Without justification salvation is not of grace, but of works.

Every Christian should live life with an open Bible and an open map.

I would love to do something with space. I'm obsessed with it.

You really have to look inside yourself to find your inner strength.

I'm a big believer in overcoming and achieving and doing things and not feeling sorry for yourself.

All knowledge is worth having

I love the normalcy of Cleveland. There's regular people there.

We have only to keep the end in view, and have our hearts thoroughly engaged in the pursuit of it, and means will not be very difficult.

I'd rather be onstage with a pig - a duet with Jennifer Lopez and me just ain't going to happen.

There's no way I can justify my salary level, but I'm learning to live with it.

To know you will be lonely is not the same as being lonely.

People have described me as a management bishop but I say to my critics, Jesus was a management expert too.

It's not easy that everything you do, everybody has to come in and critique it and give their opinion. Sometimes it does help me and sometimes it hurts me as a person. That's life. I have feelings.

All my friends are but one, but He is all sufficient.

You say tomato, I say bourbon and coke.

One of the first, and most important of those duties which are incumbent upon us, is fervent and united prayer.

The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart

I am thinking of you in my sleepless solitude tonight.

There's a hero, If you look inside your heart

The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others' burdens, easing other's loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas.

Everyone sort of feels alienated at that point, so it's hard to say whether I felt like that because everyone does or because I was so focused on acting [since the age of 8].

Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff.

If someone talks about union, fidelity, a monogamous relationship, love, blessing; I would say it sounds like marriage to me. And blessing, you see, I think is undermining our sacrament of marriage.

If you believe within your soul, just hold on tight and don't let go! You can make it, make it happen

Things don't make me nearly as happy as talking and having a beer with my friends. And that's something everyone can do.

Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition has led to the rise of the gang problems we have now.

It's a long road when you face the world alone, when no one reaches out a hand for you to hold. You can find love if you search within your soul, and the emptiness you felt will disappear.

I think in my own country, at the way we've seen through the ordination of women to the priesthood, which I'm delighted about, and that will move on to another level before very long.

There's a hero if you look inside your heart. You don't have to be afraid of what you are.

I tried out for 'Jeopardy' once, when they came to Cleveland, but I didn't make it.

I never get recognised here in London, which I like. Once a year, someone comes up to me and asks if I am 'so-and-so's niece' because they think they recognise me from somewhere. I like that.

We're all a little wacko sometimes, and if we think we're not, maybe we are more than we know.

And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade.

People do not love those whose eyes show that they are somewhere else

I am very defective in all duties... In prayer I wander and am formal... I soon tire; devotion languishes; and I do not walk with God.

We must not be contented however with praying, without exerting ourselves in the use of means for the obtaining of those things we pray for.

The first Monopoly game I played with my brothers, I hated losing so much, I just had to beat them.

I was raised by just my mom. See, my father died when I was eight years old. At least, that's what he told us in the letter.

I did go to a performing arts school, so that facilitated my creativity, though I ended up going in a more musical direction.

I feel it my duty to plod on while daylight last.

I often think what interesting history we are making for the student of the twenty-first century.