Top 215 Shoulders Quotes

I do sometimes stop and think. I mean, I’m 62 now and I’ve got a child on my shoulders and he could be my grandson.

I had a lot of pressure in my career: when you play at World Cup or Champions League final, there is pressure on your shoulders.

I have to say that you don’t really know stress until you know that the path of the free world is resting a little bit on your shoulders.

I love my shoulders; they’re strong. I like the way they move, and I like the way they look in clothes.

If I believe I’m still a young kid, it’s hindering me. I am leading the line for Everton so you have to grow into your shoes and carry that weight on your shoulders.

One of my personal indulgences is getting a weekly massage – it helps to re-align my body. I usually feel so much less tense after I’ve gotten rid of some knots in my shoulders and back.

If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: ‘Dijkstra would not have liked this’, well that would be enough immortality for me.

The Kyle who made ‘Smyle’ honestly has a little more conflict in his life. He has a little more weight on his shoulders. He feels like he has to make an album about something. It’s a Kyle with duty, with a plan, with a responsibility.

My back and shoulders are my strengths. They are well-toned and do not require too much of maintenance.

What a terrible thing it would be to be the Pope! What unthinkable responsibilities to fall on your shoulders at an advanced age! No privacy. No seclusion. No sin.

I truly believe that you can’t be a successful business unless there are hiccups. That American mentality of picking yourself up, brushing your shoulders off, and then really going for it makes you 100 times stronger and smarter.

I was a brand new senator in 2013. And the idiocy of Congress was to shut the government down for two weeks in October. And coming out of that, the pressure was put on the budget chair, Paul Ryan’s shoulders and Patty Murray. Conservative Wisconsin Republican, progressive Washington Democrat, come up with a budget deal.

I am like the sick sheep that strays from the rest of the flock. Unless the Good Shepherd takes me on His shoulders and carries me back to His fold, my steps will falter, and in the very effort of rising, my feet will give way.

If we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived.

It’s nice when I have days off to go home and relax and literally take the weight off my shoulders and enjoy the simple things.

The failings in Afghanistan don’t fall on the shoulders of the American service personnel trying to complete their mission. The failure falls on military leadership unable to adapt to irregular warfare, and a Congress that blindly continues to fund failure.

I’m always being told I’ve got an old head on young shoulders, which is probably due to the way my mum and dad brought me up.

I’m a big boy with big shoulders and I’ve had some real world issues so getting some stick online doesn’t bother me.

I know a lot is going to be on our shoulders, especially the way we’re starting games out. We have to start faster; I have to be sharper from the start, and I will be. And I’m confident that if we can get this thing started out a little better each week that we can get on that roll and be tough to stop.

Lifting is what’s made me stronger and made me look better. Not only does it burn fat amazingly – and I think it’s really honed my body – it’s also given me the strength in the ring to lift girls up. I can literally lift anything on my shoulders.

Once we’re ignored or dismissed long enough, conservatives seem to just shrug our collective shoulders and accept defeat. It’s this type of passivity that has allowed progressives to dominate film and television, universities and large swaths of the mainstream news media.

One: whose shoulders do you stand on? And two: what do you stand for? These are two questions that I always begin my poetry workshops with students because at times, poetry can seem like this dead art form for old white men who just seem like they were born to be old, like, you know, Benjamin Button or something.

Stress happens. In different ways, we all hold unnecessary tension in our bodies all day long. Shoulders, neck, wrists, hips, hamstrings, back, oh my!

I represent a great continent. People ask, Is there pressure on me? I don’t feel pressure at all. It’s an unbelievable challenge for me, but I feel like I carry the weight of my continent on my shoulders. I want to help the next generation in Africa.

It’s hard to put your shoulders back and say, ‘right lads, let’s win this game,’ when we’re not actually winning anything.

You cannot be laid back at any given time and think ‘you have made it.’ You need to have your head on your shoulders and have the right attitude. Your attitude is extremely important.

Remember, you must not sleep at the Seder. If you do, Elijah the Prophet will come with a bag on his shoulders. On the two first nights of Passover, Elijah the Prophet goes about looking for those who have fallen asleep at the Seder, and takes them away in his bag.

I remember when I cut my hair. I used to have hair to my shoulders. Immediately, people said, ‘Oh, but that’s the power cut. Now she looks like a man.’

In reality, it is the waste collectors, the nurses, and the cleaners whose shoulders are supporting the apex of the pyramid. They are the true mechanism of social solidarity.

I don’t care how many times I play ‘Angry Birds.’ When you have the world’s cares on your shoulders and you fling those little birds at those rotten pigs, then the whole world just melts away.

Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.

Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor’s shoulders.

You always stand on the shoulders of your predecessor.

I’ve worked with a lot of real heavy hitters, and Quentin is maybe heads and shoulders, at least a forehead, above just about anybody I’ve ever worked with.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

The whole nation thinks I should be winning, winning, winning all the time and that’s a lot to take on my shoulders.

I wrote a lot of lyrics in prison, but they’d all be like, ‘Crawls upon the shoulders, hatred in the eyes.’ I wrote about 50 songs in there that were all about jail. I’ve come out and thought, ‘I’ve only served eight weeks; I can’t really write a concept album about jail.’

With such a big number comes a great responsibility so I have to accept that on my shoulders and live with what comes with it, good and bad. It is not a burden, it is just part and parcel of being a No.9.

You just can’t muscle your way through some things in life. You just have to keep your head on your shoulders and dance with it as you go.

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

When you end the European Championship the best goal-scorer in your own country, you show the world that you have the shoulders to handle the pressure.

From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.

The camera lens or the television camera is still just a proscenium arch. And as a great old character actor once said to me, wherever you’re acting, you reach up and take hold of the proscenium arch, and you pull it down around your shoulders.

I look at the careers of people I’m standing on the shoulders of. People like Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr., and Sarah Vaughan. These are icons I wanted to emulate, and I feel like they’ve been holding me up for quite a long time.

There’s something sexy about a man or a woman when they have definition in their shoulders and their arms. When I’m at a restaurant, whether it’s a man in a sleeveless top or a woman, I can’t help but look.

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

I was standing on the shoulders of other science fiction writers like William Gibson, who had written ‘Neuromancer’ on a typewriter before home computers even really existed, and Neal Stephenson who wrote ‘Snow Crash’ in the early ’90s and imagined an online virtual world before the birth of the modern Internet.

But because our organization has grown so much and in so many different ways, the delegation process places responsibility and authority on the shoulders of people you can watch grow and watch the way they treat others.

I do what I’ve got to do to survive, to keep my teeth in my head, and my head on my shoulders. I apologize to whoever can’t put that together and understand that.

As a kid, I was playing a character, so the film was not on my shoulders. I did 11 films out of which three were appreciated and remembered. At that time no one was following my career, so it was easier. But now when you are a mature adult, it’s a different experience.