Top 424 Carried Quotes

My father has developed a tradition of surprising us at some point by appearing in fancy dress. He buys a new costume each year and typically gets carried away. A couple of Christmases ago he appeared in an inflatable sumo outfit. It’s endearing, really, and only quite embarrassing.
Pippa Middleton
In 1996 – when, for the fifth year in a row, we had the best record among major airlines for on-time performance and for baggage handling and the fewest complaints for the number of customers carried – we dedicated an airplane to all of our 25,000 people. We put all their names on the outside of the overhead bins.
Herb Kelleher
If nobody recognizes you, if nobody cares, it’s easier to avoid getting carried away. That’s way harder if you’re a famous artist.
Max Martin
In ‘Delhi Belly,’ I was bald; in other movies I always carried a different look.
Vir Das
Madrid’s players are carried along by the football itself, what they feel in each moment; they’re not guided by tactical rigor or a specific structure.
Quique Setien
My wife and I had been to the genetic counselor; my wife is not Jewish – she’s the shiksha goddess type – and was negative for everything. But I was positive. I carried the gene for three genetic disorders, which, if she had been positive for, we would have passed down to the child.
James Gray
The discipline as a dancer carried over into my life.
Phyllis Smith
Praise the bridge that carried you over.
George Colman
The X is an amazing car, but we kind of got carried away with the art and technology. Obviously, you want great art. You want great technology. But we did get a little distracted from our mission, which was to advance the cause of electric vehicles. And it probably delayed us a little bit with the Model 3 as well.
Elon Musk
We used to do a lot of kick-catch work with Carlton, and it really taught us some great skills catching above our heads, off our chest. Those things I’ve carried throughout my career and I’m really thankful I got the opportunity to learn that.
Israel Folau
I found ‘The Twin’ sitting on a coffee table at a writers’ colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That seemed ample justification for using it to avoid my own writing. I finished it – weeping – a day later, and I’ve been puzzling over its powerful hold on me ever since.
Amy Waldman
My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.
Immanuel Velikovsky
The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things.
Giambattista Vico
I don’t ever want to be carried off the court.
Devin Booker
Whether it’s their Sharia law and birther conspiracies or their unwillingness to buck Grover Norquist’s no-tax pledge, the Tea Partiers have hijacked their party and carried it all the way to the right.
Jennifer Granholm
Diversity and inclusion of women and underrepresented m

Diversity and inclusion of women and underrepresented minorities in science should not affect the way education is handled or research is carried out. So diversity should not be a problem but rather an opportunity to involve a large talent pool.
Mildred Dresselhaus
The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there.
Leigh Hunt
Seeing someone go down, you don’t ever want to see anyone getting carried off on a stretcher or you don’t want to see anyone missing a day or another game.
Jofra Archer
Most of the money I make now comes from investments from CrunchFund. And the vast majority of that is what’s called carried interest.
Michael Arrington
If I had remained in Lhasa, even without the Chinese occupation, I would probably have carried the ceremonial role in some orthodox way.
Dalai Lama
From the day an idea is conceptualized to the day the technology is built, carried out, and regulated, it’s important to have that human awareness.
Fei-Fei Li
I don’t suffer from SCD myself, but I do carry the gene. This means that if I married another person who carried the gene, there would be a danger our children would suffer from the disease.
Ayobami Adebayo
I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
Edmund Burke
If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.
Kurt Cobain
Women have always been the world’s burden bearers. Ever since history began the great burden of the world’s faith, its belief in immortality has been carried in the arms of its women.
Gutzon Borglum
Consular cards were not designed to be identification and no treaty recognizes them as such. Legal travelers, visitors and long-term residents carried passports, visas or green cards for that purpose.
Elton Gallegly
We’ve carried that over into the visual development as well. We’ve designed quite an exotic cast of characters, but the last thing we want is to dictate to the players how their PCs should look. What we want to do is inspire.
Sam Wood
Critical and liberating dialogue, which presupposes action, must be carried on with the oppressed at whatever the stage of their struggle for liberation. The content of that dialogue can and should vary in accordance with historical conditions and the level at which the oppressed perceive reality.
Paulo Freire
The opportunities of America opened out to me the public schools. They carried me to the professional training of an American university. I began by working with my own hands for my daily bread.
Herbert Hoover
When I was a kid, it wasn’t very often that I could go to the movies and see an entire movie carried on the shoulders of someone who looked like me.
Aimee Garcia
The fact that the movement was carried on by women who, for the most part, had no money of their own and were totally inexperienced in organization, and that they won their fight in about two generations, makes a story often dramatic and always worth preserving.
Florence Ellinwood Allen
Deep in my heart it still feels like I’m a journalist even though I haven’t worked for a paper and carried a press pass for 14 years.
Michael Connelly
With an older generation, there’s some weight carried with the Beatles. There’s almost like an untouchable, god-like force field around them.
Brendon Urie
The space shuttle has been a fantastic vehicle. It is unlike any other thing that we’ve ever built. Its capabilities have carried several hundred people into space.
Robert Crippen
For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.
Steve Jobs
One thing that annoys me in football is when people get carried away by results after four or five weeks of a new season.
Peter Crouch
My grandfather carried me around on his shoulders at 85.
Paul Watson
I wasn’t one of those kids who stole Richard Pryor records. I wasn’t a comedy-nerd kid. I had no concept of stand-up. Actually, the only inkling of stand-up I had was I read one of Paul Reiser’s books when I was, like, 12. I found it at a yard sale, and I carried it around with me for six years.
Whitney Cummings
Notice of leaving the E.U. under Article 50, for which most of us voted, provides a mechanism for extending the negotiating period by agreement if this is necessary. It is not to undermine Brexit to insist it is carried out correctly.
Dominic Grieve
Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.
Charles Spurgeon
A survey carried out across the U.S. between 2004 and 2006 showed that frequent church- or synagogue-goers are more likely to give money to charity.
Jonathan Sacks
I couldn’t do my homework if my room wasn’t clean. And it has carried on now that I am older, in a very freakish way.
Shaun White
I actually carried a Panavision Platinum and a G2 when I was seven months pregnant for a film called ‘Little Birds,’ and the whole movie was handheld. And we were shooting in the desert. That’s a 35-millimeter camera. It’s huge, probably at least 50, 55 pounds, and I did all my own operating.
Reed Morano
Words matter, especially words defining complicated political arrangements, because they shape perceptions of the events of the past, attitudes toward policies being carried out in the present, and expectations about desirable directions for the future.
Michael Mandelbaum
My grandfather was a direct descendent of Guru Nanak, which my father also carried forth.
Pooja Bedi
I’m still 19, and I’ve got a lot to learn. I’ve got to keep improving and not get too carried away with myself.
Dele Alli
We were far from being the kind of band that threw TVs

We were far from being the kind of band that threw TVs out of hotel windows. In fact, we carried our own toolbox with us so that if anything got broken, we could nail it back together and not be charged for it.
Paul Young
Heaven knows that there are plenty of opportunities in later life, too, for being carried away. What of it? We remain what we are and, no doubt, it is all very good for us!
Knut Hamsun
Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around, but he carried it off so well.
Abraham Verghese
The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren’t carried out at the bidding of a few malefactors of great wealth.
P. J. O’Rourke
I didn’t always mean to be an actor. I was carried onto the stage when I was two days old, but I never acted as a child. My parents were stage people.
Peter Sellers
I think ‘selfies’ are fun and expressive, as long as you don’t get carried away with it.
Trey Songz
I have carried the burden of my dad’s image since day one. They never see me as just another guy trying to make his career in the film industry. I am always ‘Megastar’ Chiranjeevi’s son first, and Ram Charan only later.
Ram Charan
The Lord God carries us throughout our lives just as a father carries his child. The Lord carried me, and He still is. He made you. He knows what you’re good at. He knows what you can do and what you can become. Trust Him. Love Him. He’ll always love you back.
Frank Peretti