Top 177 Center Quotes

I like characters who are changed, often for the better, by the dark nature of their experiences. I also can become engaged by a character for whom I wish to see justice done, one way or the other. In general, I require a book to have some sort of moral center.
Thomas H. Cook
The amygdala in the emotional center sees and hears everything that occurs to us instantaneously and is the trigger point for the fight or flight response.
Daniel Goleman
So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation’s hoop I thrust it in the earth.
Black Elk
We all have times that we get off center.
James Redfield
Conventional wisdom suggests the primary motivator for entrepreneurs is money or wealth creation and, in fact, much of the political debate tends to center around what kind of tax or regulatory policy changes will turn corporate suits into small business adventurers overnight.
Chip Conley
The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man’s dedication to world peace… a representation of man’s belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.
Minoru Yamasaki
Too often, stories about Afghanistan center around the various wars, the opium trade, the war on terrorism. Precious little is said about the Afghan people themselves – their culture, their traditions, how they lived in their country and how they manage abroad as exiles.
Khaled Hosseini
I took a Chinatown bus to New York to enroll in the International Culinary Center’s pastry program.
Christina Tosi
Transportation is the center of the world! It is the glue of our daily lives. When it goes well, we don’t see it. When it goes wrong, it negatively colors our day, makes us feel angry and impotent, curtails our possibilities.
Robin Chase
The source and center of all man’s creative power… is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.
Robert Collier
I think the personal relationships I established mattered in terms of what I was able to get done. And I did bring women’s issues to the center of our foreign policy.
Madeleine Albright
The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.
Empedocles
I was standing on a ladder outside the Homestead juvenile immigrant detention center outside Miami, looking over the fence, and I saw children lined up like prisoners. They had been separated from their families and put in this private detention facility. It was horrible.
Kamala Harris
I like being the center of attention. I want to be in t

I like being the center of attention. I want to be in the limelight, basically.
Nash Grier
‘LaFerrari’ means ‘the Ferrari.’ The excellence. In this car, we put everything we are able to do. Our extreme technology, extreme experience, extreme capability. And this has been the first Ferrari totally designed in our design center.
Luca Cordero di Montezemolo
When you’re out grocery shopping for your family, maybe you can put a can of cat or dog food in your cart and bring it to an animal relief center.
Rachael Ray
Meditation had never been tried before in a medical center, so we had no idea whether mainstream Americans would accept a clinic whose foundation was intensive training in meditative discipline.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Every bowling center should have a house pro.
Don Johnson
The knot of intimacy at the center of ‘Ten Thousand Saints’ is the friendship between Teddy McNicholas and Jude Keffy-Horn.
Stacey D’Erasmo
The question that I started off with was, I thought, very simple. It was just ‘Is there a massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way?’ But one of the things I love about science is that you always end up with new questions.
Andrea M. Ghez
When I say, ‘Everybody to the table and eat,’ I mean it. That is the glue, the center that holds the family, that gives security. Good food brings everybody to the table.
Lidia Bastianich
I was a roving guard on the Lowell Hebrew Community Center’s girls’ basketball team all through high school. My specialty was stealing the ball, but my only shot was a lay-up.
Elinor Lipman
I am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?
Lady Gaga
Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it’s got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It’s not pretty. But it’s striking, I’ll give it that. It’s not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly.
P. J. O’Rourke
If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys’ home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center.
Tupac Shakur
If Shanghai wants to be an international cultural center, they have to do something about that. The reason I left is that I wanted to explore what ballet is all about, and if I had stayed put, that wouldn’t have happened.
Yuan Yuan Tan
Living my life socially means there is a swagger to how I dress, walk; it’s not about being ‘cool,’ it’s just being me – that’s understanding your place and your center – that’s what swagger is, and I guess that’s where the soul comes from.
BJ the Chicago Kid
We had the Windows app store in Windows 8, but one of the big changes in the design of Windows 10 is to make sure that the app store is front and center where our usage is, which is the desktop.
Satya Nadella
They are sick in their minds. They say they brought 65 tanks into center of city. I say to you this talk is not true. This is part of their sick mind.
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Prison is a recruitment center for the army of crime. That is what it achieves.
Michel Foucault
The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
Maya Angelou
A life without a lonely place, that is, without a quiet center, becomes destructive.
Henri Nouwen
I said to Martin Scorsese, ‘When are you going to make another film with a woman at the center?’
Cate Blanchett
We live in downtown Manhattan and we have pretty big windows that looked right at the World Trade Center. I was home along with Kai and we watched it all happen. I was holding him in my arms and we were looking out the window when the second plane hit.
Jennifer Connelly
I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you’re in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you’re not dealing with show business, there’s still this sense that it’s the center of the universe.
Ed Helms
Earthshaking fire from the center of the Earth will cause tremors around the New City. Two great rocks will war for a long time, then Arethusa will redden a new river.
Nostradamus
I wanted to be a marine biologist my whole life until I graduated high school. And even now, I’m still like, ‘Maybe I’ll just quit the biz and go to Santa Cruz and study marine biology and have my own research center in the Bahamas.’ Yeah, I’m sure it would be just that smooth.
Cobie Smulders
China is a great manufacturing center, but it’s actually mostly an assembly plant. So it assembles parts and components, high technology that comes from the surrounding industrial – more advanced industrial centers – Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, the United States, Europe – and it basically assembles them.
Noam Chomsky
Standing center stage in the six foot circle of wood cut from the stage of the Ryman is something I never take for granted. The history and legacy of that circle is awe-inspiring.
Blake Shelton
On September 11, the murders of World Trade Center employees and visitors took the lives of numerous nationalities, ethnic groups and religious followers.
Cliff Stearns
The Eucharistic mystery stands at the heart and center of the liturgy since it is the fount of life by which we are cleansed and strengthened to live not for ourselves but for God and to be united in love among ourselves.
Pope Paul VI
I just really don’t like being the center of attention that much. It’s kind of ironic.
Jimmy Fallon
I have an insatiable desire to be the center of attention.
Howie Mandel
A lot of people have this ego need that makes them want to believe that Earth is the center of the universe and humans are the most important species, the supreme expression of creation.
Ann Druyan
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.

Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
Novalis
One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.
Baltasar Gracian
The Nobel prize is unquestionably the most famous prize in the world, and very often, the prize is an object of prestige not only for a person but also for a research center, a country, or for a particular area of interest.
Klaus von Klitzing
You know George M. Steinbrenner III is the center of all evil in the universe.
Ben Affleck
The concept of the megachurch – some have attributed that to me. Whatever people want to buy, they can get it in the shopping center. It’s one-stop shopping. Churches should be that way.
Robert H. Schuller
The most important thing about Jazz at Lincoln Center is the fact that it’s the first time that perhaps the most important art form in American culture has a place to really exhibit itself and dedicated to its own particular conditions of performance.
Rafael Vinoly
We live life in restaurants, its the center of social life, where we celebrate with family and friends, make new friends, travel without traveling, and of course, eat.
Philip Rosenthal
I think that human beings, even the ones who are sometimes hurting you, are often very, very confused at their center.
Jimmi Simpson
Home is the center of life. It’s the wellspring of personhood. It’s where we say we’re ourselves.
Matthew Desmond
I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There’s something very front and center about being young.
Amy Grant
I guess real maturity, which most of us never achieve, is when you realize that you’re not the center of the universe.
Katherine Paterson
If we don’t center the voices of marginalized people, we’re doing the wrong work.
Tarana Burke
I don’t think I’m particularly shy. I just don’t like being front and center as myself.
Ben Foster
The ‘All My Children’ studio was near Lincoln Center, and I used to see all the ballerinas and the dancers, and I thought, I don’t want to bulk up; I want to have long, lean, toned muscles. And I found out that through Pilates, you can achieve those strong, lean dancer muscles.
Susan Lucci