Touched Quotes - Page 7

• To be a baby elephant must be wonderful. Surrounded by a loving family 24 hours a day. Touched by the family, cuddled and comforted. A tremendous love and compassion exuded by every family member. I think it must be how it ought to be, in a perfect world.

  Daphne Sheldrick

  Baby, Thinking, Compassion

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• I sing with all my heart and when I see the audience feel it too, I feel so touched I get goosebumps…To my fans, I would like to say, 'I will work harder', rather than to say, 'I love you' because I believe that sincerity has its way of getting across to touch hearts.

  Taeyang

  Believe, Love You, Hard Work

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• I'm just trying to make my favorite music. That's how I work; I just do things based on the way they feel to me. I want to be touched by the music I'm making. Luckily, other people have shared that response to my work over the years.

  Rick Rubin

  Years, People, Trying

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The only dream I ever had was the dream of New York itself, and for me, from the minute I touched down in this city, that was enough. It became the best teacher I ever had.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Dream, Teacher, New York

  Kelly Cutrone, Meredith Bryan (2010). “If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• I write because it is dangerous, a bloody risk, like love, to form the words, to say the words, to touch the source, to be touched, to reveal how vulnerable we are, how transient.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Writing, Like Love, Risk

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• Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.

  Alan Paton

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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• Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

  Richard Crawshaw

  Love, Heart, Brave

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• The fact that people in Hollywood are open to what I teach is not because they're more desperate than anyone else, but because they're more touched by it. That's not their weakness. It's their strength!

  Marianne Williamson

  People, Weakness, Hollywood

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• I saw it his eyes. I felt it when he touched me.

  Toni Gonzaga

  Eye, Starting Over, Saws

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• When called to the Council of the Twelve, October 4, 1963, he said in the Salt Lake Tabernacle: I think of a little sister, a French-Canadian sister, whose life was changed by the missionaries as her spirit was touched. As she said good-by to me and my wife in Quebec, she said, "President Monson, I may never see the Prophet. I may never hear the Prophet. But President, far better, now that I am a member of this Church, I can obey the Prophet."

  Thomas S. Monson

  Sister, Thinking, Lakes

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• The measure of a man is in the lives he’s touched.

  Ernie Banks

  Men, Measure Of A Man

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• When (the Reds) won, we loved it because we ran into the locker room and touched all the bats and gloves and got some bubble gum and red pop. When they lost, we were upset because we didn't get the bubble gum and red pop.

  Ken Griffey, Jr.

  Upset, Gum, Gloves

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• Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.

  Ray Bradbury

  Letting Go, Should, Learn To Let Go

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• Winning or losing, it's always something special and something you'll remember, even more so when the match was as dramatic as it was today. It's even more memorable when I see my kids there with my wife and everything. That's what touched me the most, to be quite honest. The disappointment of the match itself went pretty quickly.

  Roger Federer

  Disappointment, Memorable, Kids

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• I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been touched on... It's perfectly obvious that two completely revolutionary things are going on, with cybernetics, and biological science.

  Poul Anderson

  Stars, Book, Writing

  "Poul Anderson: Fifty Years of Science Fiction", www.locusmag.com. April 1997.

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• Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now. To perpetuate your feelings, to establish them. If you have in any way touched the central heart of mankind's feelings, you'll survive.

  Richard Eberhart

  Heart, Feelings, Way

  "Poet Richard Eberhart Dies at Age 101". The Associated Press, www.today.com. June 12, 2005.

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• I have been honored to serve the whales, dolphins, seals - and all the other creatures on this Earth. Their beauty, intelligence, strength, and spirit have inspired me. These beings have spoken to me, touched me, and I have been rewarded by friendship with many members of different species. If the whales survive and flourish, if the seals continue to live and give birth, and if I can contribute to ensuring their future prosperity, I will be forever happy.

  Paul Watson

  Whales, Giving, Forever

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• There's a point at which when I start to know a man well--this isn't true of women--I wonder whether there's something in him that's evil. Something that's pure and can't be touched. This quality of evil may be related to the quality of artistry, for an artist has the same characteristics.

  Kathy Acker

  Men, Artist, Evil

  Kathy Acker (1994). “My Mother: Demonology”, p.101, Grove Press

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• I've concluded that the metric by which God will assess my life isn't dollars but the individual people whose lives I've touched.

  Clayton Christensen

  People, Dollars, Metrics

  Clayton Christensen (2016). “The Clayton M. Christensen Reader”, p.203, Harvard Business Review Press

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• Climate helps to shape the character of peoples, certainly no people more than the English. The uncertainty of their climate has helped to make the English, a long-suffering, phlegmatic, patient people rather insensitive to surprise, stoical against storms,. slightly incredulous at every appearance of the sun, touched by the lyrical gratitude of someone who expects nothing and suddenly receives more than he dreamed.

  H. E. Bates

  Dream, Gratitude, Character

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• Consciousness expresses itself through creation. This world we live in is the dance of the creator. Dancers come and go in the twinkling of an eye but the dance lives on. On many an occasion when I am dancing, I have felt touched by something sacred.In those moments, I felt my spirit soar and become one with everything that exists.

  Michael Jackson

  Dance, Eye, Dancing

  "Dangerous". Album by Michael Jackson, 1991.

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• The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.

  Anthony Storr

  Sympathy, Tea, Done

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• I sat in my desolation Withdrawn from all around, Feeling my life was a ruin, a failure. I was empty inside with the utter collapse of my being. I did not care anymore for living or dying. I was alone in my distress and desolation. But as I sat sadly on the ground, The sun reached out his hand to me and touched my face. And so my healing began.

  Marjorie Pizer

  Healing, Hands, Funeral

  Marjorie Pizer (2014). “To You the Living”, p.52, Lulu Press, Inc

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• To eat figs off the tree in the very early morning, when they have been barely touched by the sun, is one of the exquisite pleasures of the Mediterranean.

  Elizabeth David

  Morning, Food, Tree

  Elizabeth David (1999). “Italian Food”, p.261, Penguin

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• A quick example of that is a woman who said she'd been healed of throat cancer where the faith healer admitted he touched her on the forehead.

  James Randi

  Cancer, Example, Said

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