Top 606 Down Quotes

Children born with Down Syndrome are not vegetables, nor are their lives demonstrably not worth living.

When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass!

Granny beads are what they’re called when a grandma works the garden all day – you always see them – they have a handkerchief around their neck with a lot of dust on them, and then the sweat will go down and make these black beads of sweat and dirt around their neck. And that’s what they call granny beads.

Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.

You can knock me down, but I get up twice as strong.

When I’m off the road, and I can really control my diet down to the calorie, I juice seven days a week. Every afternoon, whatever I have at hand, beets, carrots, ginger, whatever. I juice, literally, every single day. And on the road, I try to find fresh juice wherever I can.

I am just a person who is human, down to earth enjoying life… whatever god blesses you with. Enjoying life for me is just normal.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Once you got a solar panel on a roof, energy is free. Once we convert our entire electricity grid to green and renewable energy, cost of living goes down.

Starting a business and building a product are not for the faint of heart. You have to learn to not let little disappointments get you down and to stay focused on the big picture.

It is not down in any map; true places never are.

I feel it’s a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling… to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift.

I go feminine, I go masculine. I am both, actually. I think the male side is a bit stronger in me, and I have to tone it down sometimes. I’m not like a normal woman, that’s for sure.

When I was 12, I wanted to learn how to play the guitar, and I found a chord book in a shop, and I stuffed it down my trousers. And that’s how I learned to play the guitar.

Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

Some people think that you have to be the loudest voice in the room to make a difference. That is just not true. Often, the best thing we can do is turn down the volume. When the sound is quieter, you can actually hear what someone else is saying. And that can make a world of difference.

All I want to do when I have time off is to have a laugh with my school friends and go down the pub.

My belt holds my pants up, but the belt loops hold my belt up. I don’t really know what’s happening down there. Who is the real hero?

I would trade 20 white babies for an Asian baby. If I’m ever rich, I want a closet full of Asian babies. And I’ll just pull them out whenever I’m feeling down, you know? All kinds. Korean ones. Chinese ones. Vietnamese – not so much. My dad was in the war, and I hold a grudge.

I’m not confrontational, but if someone challenges, I’m not going to back down.

I’m so down to earth, I’m bringing gravity back.

The inventory goes down the elevator every night.

I vent my anger in the gym, and it calms me down.

If any demonstrator ever lays down in front of my car, it’ll be the last car he’ll ever lay down in front of.

Consumption is still going up on Alibaba. This is because when the economy goes down people look online to Alibaba to buy cheaper things.

We need to believe that we can achieve progress in fixing our broken immigration system, prioritizing smart border security investments, cracking down on those who are trafficking and smuggling, and relieving the ongoing humanitarian crisis at our southern border.

I used to think like Moses. That knocked me down for a couple years and put me in prison. Then I start thinking like Job. Job waited and became the wealthiest and richest man ever ’cause he believed in God.

I learned that life will go through changes – up and down and up again. It’s what life does.

Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.

There will be byes, there will be catches that will go down, but what is important is what you do when the next chance arrives. Because there will always be a next catch. If you are not positive, if you are not in a good frame of mind, you can drop that next one, too.

Atlanta is down south, the club. So the most thing played down there is club music. Everybody wants a hit.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man’s bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man’s stairs.

I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.

I really don’t think in the past. I sit down with many friends at dinner, and they like to talk about the good old days. I’m respectful of the good old days, but I find myself spending very little time reminiscing. I’m really looking forward.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

Anything that reduces fuel consumption and cuts down on greenhouse gasses is good news.

Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping him up.

Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.

It’s the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they’re gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it’s my turn to leave.

I’ve just concluded – since President Obama endorses the same-sex marriage, advocates homosexual people, and enjoys an attractive countenance – thus if it becomes necessary, I shall travel to Washington, D.C., get down on my knee, and ask his hand.

People who work crossword puzzles know that if they stop making progress, they should put the puzzle down for a while.

When people criticize me, instead of putting my head down, it gives me energy to do even more.

The Iranians have shot down drones. They tried to destroy the Saudi oil fields. They tried to storm our embassy. So, when my Democratic friends say we need appeasement, well appeasement hasn’t worked. And I think that we’ve learned, with respect to Iran, that weakness invites the wolves.

Brotherhood means laying down your life for somebody, really willing to sacrifice yourself for somebody else.

Newman’s first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you’re upside down.

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

I think the biggest misconception about me is people really don’t know who I really am. They see the party side of me, they see the crazy side of me. But I also have a laid-back side. You know, I’m chill, down to earth. If you want to grab a cup of coffee and just talk about life, I can do that.

Some of us are like a shovel brigade that follow a parade down Main Street cleaning up.

Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

I was a pitcher, shortstop and outfielder, and the Yankees tried to sign me out of high school as a first-round draft pick in 1981. I turned them down to go to college.

If you get down and quarell everyday, you’re saying prayers to the devil, I say.

Once you have dialogue starting, you know you can break down prejudice.

I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up.

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o’clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who… looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space… on the infinite highway of the air.

But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.

This life is a test, and we’re put down here to make choices. The truth is, the bad choices of other people can hurt us.