Famous Quotes

Quotes by Cher

• Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
• The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
• The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
• The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
• The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
• The battle for women's rights has been largely won.
• The best form of flattery is to be admired, imitated or respected. I've always felt proud our fans look up to us or feel we are inspirational.
• The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
• The dog is the god of frolic.
• The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.
• The first legislation that I produced relating to the Internet was a bill to overturn a restriction inside of the law that prohibited the Internet backbone from being used for anything other than research and scientific and educational communication.
• The Great Inflation of the 1970s destroyed faith in paper assets, because if you held a bond, suddenly the bond was worth much less money than it was before.
• The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York.
• The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
• The idea that so many kids eat rubbish and sit on computers all day long appals me and getting them into sport is a major way of getting them off computers and leading healthier lives.
• The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
• The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
• The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.
• The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They've lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance.
• The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
• The reason Gov. Romney passed Romneycare as governor of Massachusetts in 2006 was because many Republicans viewed health care reform, mandates and all, as a way to inoculate against Democratic charges that Republicans didn't care about people who lacked health insurance.
• The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
• The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
• The things the writers have me doing on 'Suburgatory' are insane. I think they think it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.
• The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him.
• The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
• The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.
• The way I look at it, movies are a different medium for storytelling than books.
• The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.
• The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
• Theology is a science of mind applied to God.
• There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.
• There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.
• There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement.
• There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
• There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.