Top 260 Centre Quotes

Comedians have this happy, charmed life, where they’re the centre of their own universe and can do what they want, but when you have kids you get a perspective on how unimportant you are in this world.

At the centre of Christianity is community; we are gathered by the Lord around the altar.

I wanted to be the best mum I could be. I just wanted the means to be able to help myself. And, luckily for me, I had a Sure Start centre and I had adult education I could go back into.

In the cold I centre myself and my breathing to transfer all my heat into the centre of my body.

I liked very much when we lived in Hampstead. We would go for walks on the Heath. I liked it better than living in the centre of town.

When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis – otherised and stigmatised – you become the prop in a proposition.

A script is so word-heavy, after trying to communicate so much verbally, I think you need a different outlet to give the verbal centre of your brain a chance to cool off.

The chairman, Mehmet Dalman, he was brilliant for me. He helped me left, right and centre, he lives aboard now but he was my shoulder.

In 1975, the Americans suffered a spectacular military defeat at the hands of North Vietnam and the Vietcong, with U.S. helicopters seeking to rescue leading U.S. personnel from the tops of buildings as Vietnamese guerrillas closed in on the centre of Saigon.

Sustainable production and consumption matter immensely to the people I meet every day as head of the International Trade Centre, which works with small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to help them boost growth and job creation by improving their competitiveness and connecting to international markets.

Money came in left, right and centre; you just thought that’s how it was for everyone and that’s how it will always be.

The older you get the more you realize that life is more than just basketball. Your vision of the world gets much wider, and you’re not the centre of it no more. You understand that you’re a moving part and that you have other responsibilities.

I want to become the ultimate centre forward. I want to be able to play on the left, on the right, and down the middle.

I have a huge affinity with London, and I have a lot of relatives here – now and before I was born. I pretty much look at London as the centre of the universe.

There are few things I like more than to see old people twinkling. A shopping centre I frequent has Tea Dance Tuesdays and I regularly pop by to see the over- 60s twirling about to a live band.

My mother gave up everything for me. In Yekaterinburg, she had a job and an apartment in the centre of the city and her whole life. And in Moscow – nothing.

I never dreamed when I was competing at The Championships that I would one day be interviewing the winners on Centre Court for the BBC.

I remember lying to my producer that I’d heard Sean Penn was coming out of a different exit, just to avoid him – he was punching journalists left, right and centre at that point.

We put people at the centre of securing the country. You can’t secure your country with only a security apparatus and missiles.

To be an Indian writer is to write, necessarily and inevitably, about politics, so it was a given that the story of the Ghoshes, the family at the centre of ‘The Lives of Others,’ should have a political soul.

I watch ‘Take Me Out’ mainly for Paddy McGuinness. When we were younger, we worked together as lifeguards at the Bolton Leisure Centre.

It feels really good to give back. I’m opening the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness Centre in Australia.

Being a parent is a huge responsibility. Your child becomes the centre of your world.

I did a play in school. Then Dramsoc became the centre of my universe.

The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but never forget to be entertaining and to have character and emotion at their centre.

When an Occupy demo in the centre of Frankfurt makes world news, I shall hurry to join in.

I’ve stood in front of 500 extremely angry people in Waterford when we closed a call centre there. That’s not fun, and the day you think it is fun is the day you shouldn’t be doing it.

I’ve learned new footwork patterns that are very unusual. I’ve learned how to find a lower centre of gravity, and I’ve found more angles to throw shots.

Ever since I was a little kid, I loved being the centre of attention. I think it’s part of the reason why I loved skating. You’re literally in a fishbowl. You’re in the middle of the ice by yourself, and the world is watching.

I love England, it’s my home now. But I’ve been to the city, the centre of London, very little, as I don’t really relax.

In my view, it is only when civilians are protected that we will defeat ISIS, and until that is at the centre of our plan, I will remain an outspoken advocate for that cause.

My problem is that I love talking to people. I remember working in a call centre in Dalston and I’d end up having these long chats with old women.

It’s all about a beautiful table on Christmas day. I put out lovely napkins and napkin holders, and maybe put a wreath in the centre. I like to dish all the veg up into massive serving platters, for everyone to help themselves – it feels so abundant.

My aim is not just to help preserve what is left of mountain life, but to create a centre where people can study and learn about it.

We are now in the middle of the centre of the first half.

So many little girls dream about their wedding day. But with actresses, sometimes it’s the inverse, because we get to be the centre of attention, looked up and down, dressed up for premieres all the time. The pull isn’t quite as great.

I remember my mother taking me to see the Picasso show in the 1940s, and I was impressed by the life and vibrancy of it all. It was a bit too avant-garde for most Londoners at the time, but since then, the city has become a centre for modern culture.

I don’t really want to be the centre of attention.

Those who are talking about withdrawing funds and grants to the states should understand that the Centre gets revenue from the states. They should realize that states like Kerala, get only a fraction in return, for every rupee that it pays to the Centre.

London is not just an international financial centre: it is also one of the most ethnically diverse places on earth. Three hundred languages are represented within its boundaries, and – as is true of some other English cities – more than half of London’s inhabitants describe themselves as non-white.

I much prefer playing in the centre of the park; that’s where I feel comfortable.

Most cities have a centre surrounded by suburbs, but London has numerous centres: it’s the model of a twenty-first century metropolis.

I had a friend at college who took being poor very personally. He started showering in the sports centre next door and said he wasn’t going to pay for the hot water in our flat any more because he didn’t use it. He made me and my other friend pay the bills on our own.

I was never the girl who walked down the centre of the hallway snapping people out of her way.

You have to face the fact that I have no reputation as a composer; I have my reputation as a songwriter and a performer-and that opportunity came this summer, when I was invited to perform at the Lincoln Centre festival in New York… three nights.

I moved away when I was young, when I was about 19. I’d literally come from an area with dirt roads and stuff like that, right to the centre of a city of about five million people. It’s been great. I’m based in New York, and every day, it’s amazing.

It was only after a visit to a learning centre, where they taught me public speaking, that my personality emerged.

The No. 9, a team’s centre forward, is a number that means a lot and, God willing, I hope to inherit it some day.

My kids are the offspring of people who are doing reasonably well and live in the centre of London and the chances are they’re going to turn out ghastly anyway. Who’s to say they shouldn’t have a walk-in wardrobe and possibly a stylist from the age of four?

I was reading ‘The Mystic Eye’ by Sadhguru of Isha Yoga Centre. I couldn’t keep the book down and finished it in two-and-half hours.

I decided to put cinema at the centre of my life when I was 13 and going through the biggest crisis of my life: teenagehood.

There are many things I do where the centre of it is… It’s almost more my humanitarian work than art.

I knew I wanted to be a singer from the age of five. I’ve been lucky to be so single-minded – some of my friends still don’t know what they want to do, and they’re finding it hard. There are home videos of me singing and taking centre stage at family parties when I’m about three.

There is hardly any coordination between the Centre’s Make In India and Start-Up India schemes and demonetization.

As a kid, I was always more interested in watching others than being the centre of attention. I’ve always felt that you can see a lot more and learn a lot more when you’re standing on the edge.