Words matter. These are the best Bud Quotes from famous people such as John Quincy Adams, Mark Zuckerberg, Robin Yount, Gilbert Highet, Billy Eckstine, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
I believe we have to nip Ebola in the bud before it spreads through Africa and to other countries.
I was also lucky to play for an owner, Bud Selig, who truly cared about his players. He’d call me into his office once in a while when he knew things weren’t going so well. And it’s funny. Every time I left there I always felt like something good was about to happen.
Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating.
Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through there, he heard me sing and he wanted me to come to Chicago.
I still do a bit of this and a bit of that. Some brews and there’s nothing wrong with a bud or two! I still do a bit of this and a bit of that. Some brews and there’s nothing wrong with a bud or two!
Bud Powell’s probably the biggest influence on my piano playing.
The bud of victory is always in the truth.
I mean, Terence Crawford and Errol Spence… that’s a great fight. But Keith Thurman vs. Errol Spence and Keith Thurman vs. ‘Bud’ Crawford, I think those are better fights.
Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
This is a coup for commissioner Bud Selig. I’m surprised it’s as good as it is.
Jon Jones, grow up, bud. We’re going to fight regardless of how you feel. And when we do, and I’m cutting the line, and you might as well pull the guard because I’m taking you down.
You’ve got to nip things that can be detrimental in the bud, even if this raises a few eyebrows or invites some opposition.
Plants are decisive to a fault. A stem produces a bud that flowers once and once only. It offers pollen that is either dispersed or goes nowhere. One pollen grain either enters a stigma or it falls upon stony ground. An ovum is either fertilized or the whole project stalls out.
Almost every morning when I go to the studio to work, I discover a fresh rose in the bud vase on my dressing table… one living and vital thing in a dusty arena of powder and tissue and matches and greasepaint.
We can avoid liberal candidates by filtering them out at the local level, nipping their ascension to power in the proverbial bud by assuring they don’t get nominated in the first place – and we can’t do that until we infiltrate the party, beginning at the most basic levels.
Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I will nip him in the bud.
A virtuous character is likened to an unblemished flower. Piety is a fadeless bud that half opens on earth and expands through eternity. Sweetness of temper is the odor of fresh blooms, and the amaranth flowers of pure affection open but to bloom forever.
