Top 177 Center Quotes

I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house.
Alvar Aalto
Our mass movement will shatter this communal, fascist and autocratic center.
Lalu Prasad Yadav
I don’t know how you can do it, if you don’t recognition the media as a power center in America.
Sydney Schanberg
Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
Corrie Ten Boom
I was doing this children’s theater play, and it was non-Equity. We were out of town to do it at the Kennedy Center, and it was always kind of, ‘Well, the producers may have to turn this into Equity,’ and that’s what happened. It was kind of a silly children’s theater play, but that’s how I got my card.
Bill Pullman
In literature, older women are not often given center stage.
Kate Christensen
The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
W. H. Auden
Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.
Thomas Merton
In 2003, Congress authorized the construction of a visitor center for the Vietnam Memorial to help provide information and educate the public about the memorial and the Vietnam War.
Dennis Cardoza
My music is like a baby pink frosted cake with sprinkles, but when you cut into it, there’s a gooey, dark chocolate center.
Melanie Martinez
People think that just because you’re a center, you’re not as smart as the guards or the smaller guys.
Patrick Ewing
Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.
Howard Thurman
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
Blaise Pascal
We are a research center and treatment facility all under one roof.
Marlo Thomas
When I designed my loft, I literally framed the World Trade Center as a picture postcard I could see from my bed. I no longer have that image, and I mourn it.
Bernard Tschumi
You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go… Don’t ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center serves as a poignant reminder of our past and a trusted source of education for schoolchildren, community members, and visitors from across the country.
J. B. Pritzker
Everyone has a dream deep in their heart, which is a ce

Everyone has a dream deep in their heart, which is a center of what they want to do. If they had all the money, and they had the time and they were guaranteed that they’d be successful, that dream is what they would love to do.
Bruce Wilkinson
A lot of people will center their living room around a TV. I personally think that’s the wrong decision. I mean, have it there, absolutely. But to walk in and clearly see that the sole focus of any time you have in your house is that TV?
Bobby Berk
I love the excitement, the center stage, the limelight.
Bobby Riggs
People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to them.
Peace Pilgrim
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
Lao Tzu
I don’t like to be center of attention, except for when I want to be the center of attention.
Trisha Paytas
Reality is like a doughnut: Everything that is good and funny and juicy is outside the center, which is just emptiness.
Olga Tokarczuk
Calories from protein affect your brain, your appetite control center, so you are more satiated and satisfied.
Mark Hyman
Books are something social – a writer speaking to a reader – so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.
Yann Martel
When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don’t honor them enough, we don’t pay them enough.
Charles Kuralt
I always knew I was the center of my parents.
Chelsea Clinton
The Smith Center is a theater where you want to keep the lights on. The acoustics are amazing, and this is a stage that was built for sound.
Ace Young
Look, if you have somebody who doesn’t have health insurance, who doesn’t have a doctor or dentist, and in order to deal with their cold or flu or dental problem, they go to an emergency room – in general, that visit will cost ten times more than walking into a community health center.
Bernie Sanders
We are all at the center of our own narrative, but it’s a narrative that changes every time we retell it.
Ruth Ware
The home is the center of life – a refuge from the grind of work, pressure of school, menace of the streets, a place to be ourselves.
Matthew Desmond
I have a trophy room in my home and at the center is the replica of the World Cup.
Cafu
I’m a championship handball player. I’m a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I’m really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.
Action Bronson
I don’t want to be the center of attention. My posture has changed. I walk with my head down and shoulders slumped. Suddenly I carry myself as if I’m ashamed of something.
Randy Harrison
I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
V. S. Naipaul
Children are wonderful, but they are not the center of the universe. The sooner their parents make them understand that, the better off we all will be.
LZ Granderson
My family lived off the land and summer evening meals featured baked stuffed tomatoes, potato salad, corn on the cob, fresh shelled peas and homemade ice cream with strawberries from our garden. With no air conditioning in those days, the cool porch was the center of our universe after the scorching days.
David Mixner
Whatever the long-term legal prospects for same-sex marriage, President Obama’s willingness to put the matter front and center in an election year can at least make him a candidate for inclusion in Kennedy’s Profiles in Courage.
Robert Dallek
And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father.
Black Elk
My father worked in the Post Office. A lot of double shifts. All his friends were in the same situation – truck drivers, taxi cab drivers, grocery clerks. Blue collar guys punching the clock and working long, hard hours. The thought that sustained them was the one at the center of the American dream.
Gary David Goldberg
Israel’s capital will never again be a divided city, a city with a wall at its center, a city in which two flags fly. This city, will, in its entirety, absorb immigrants, welcome pilgrims and be the eternal capital of Israel forever.
Yitzhak Shamir
If you want to see a black hole tonight, tonight just look in the direction of Sagittarius, the constellation. That’s the center of the Milky Way Galaxy and there’s a raging black hole at the very center of that constellation that holds the galaxy together.
Michio Kaku
In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.
Octavio Paz
I think I play center field better than I do anywhere else. I have enough speed and enough reaction to know where the ball goes off the bat.
Bryce Harper
The National Tracing Center is not allowed to have centralized computer data.
Jeanne Marie Laskas
A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Black holes are very exotic objects. Technically, a black hole puts a huge amount of mass inside of zero volume. So our understanding of the center of black holes doesn’t make sense, which is a big clue to physicists that we don’t have our physics quite right.
Andrea M. Ghez
There's definitely a way to fix the prison system. Firs

There’s definitely a way to fix the prison system. First of all, you gotta get a rehabilitation center in prisons, that every inmate must go through.
Tee Grizzley
I wore No. 19 because of Bryan Trottier. I liked the overall aspect of his game. I liked the way he conducted himself on the ice. He was a quiet guy. He played really hard; just a good all-around, prototypical center man who could do everything.
Steve Yzerman
I would put myself towards left of center.
Yvette Clarke
I came up in the community center. I used to be physical director of the South Central Community Center in Chicago on 83rd. It’s still there. It used to be around there when I was a kid.
Bernie Mac
My mother was the center of the family.
John Major
I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.
Seamus Heaney
Cast away your sloth, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your chaste and pure love for Christ, your soul’s husband. Make Him the source, the center, and the circumference of all your soul’s range of delight.
Charles Spurgeon
You are the center of your universe, and you can make anything happen.
Ashley Smith
Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
Benjamin Disraeli
The president was not the most important political player in the 19th century. Besides Jefferson at the beginning, Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln, the center of politics was Congress.
H. W. Brands
When we speak the word ‘life,’ it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.
Antonin Artaud
Most weight loss diets center around portion control, which is just trying to eat smaller amounts of the same addictive foods. This approach inevitably fails.
Joel Fuhrman
I tell my staff, we’re riding a tour bus around, and we’re going to stop and look at some weird stuff – but we’re taking our viewers around safely. They’re just looking out the window at it. I’m trying to create a sense of comfort for my center audience.
Chris Matthews