Gave Up Quotes

I gave up my music because I had received from it all I had to receive. To serve God one must sacrifice the dearest thing, and I sacrificed my music, the dearest thing to me.

We were 6 feet under. A lot of people gave up on us, including fans and critics and show promoters and record labels.

My mum gave up so much to have me, and now I want to repay her.

I gave up rock 'n' roll for the rock of ages! I used to be a glaring homosexual until God changed me!

So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear!

I can't say I gave up totally my passion for women but almost.

I gave up coffee. It's almost worse than giving up a lover.

I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn't work out.

I gave up my childhood for a career.

My one ambition was to go to Broadway, and I never gave up on that dream.

I like commas. I detest semi-colons — I don’t think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn’t need them, they were fly-specks on the page.

I tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year. It hurt so much to play. I mean, the fingertips hurt so much, I gave up.

We gave up having a TV last year. I am out of the loop. Life is way better than TV. I recommend it to anyone who has forgotten they have one.

Colonialism has a bad reputation in the modern context, but Colonial Africa was a far better place for both black and white before the colonists gave up.

I got lucky because I never gave up the search. Are you quitting too soon? Or are you willing to pursue luck with a vengeance?

I gave up shame a long time ago.

When I finally gave up any hope of doing anything representative of the American family, I actually seemed to have tapped into other people's weirdness in that way.

My mom means a lot to me. My mom gave up everything. She moved with me and believed in me. She is awesome.

I never gave up as a player, and I won't give up as someone who wants to go to the Hall of Fame, because it's the ultimate goal for a baseball player or a football player or a basketball player.

I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.

I am no longer a criminal. I gave up that practice years ago.

I aim to be pretty - I gave up dressing to be sexy in the eighties.

I'm someone who has always been very stubborn and strong-willed. I never gave up.

Babe Ruth made a great mistake when he gave up pitching.

It was at this time that she entirely gave up on reading. The covers of books looked like coffins to her, either shabby or ornate, and what was inside them might as well have been dust.

A loss, but who still mourns the breath of one woman, or laments one wife? Though my heart never can forget, how, for one look, she gave up her life.

I gave up drinking lots of whiskey and began to practice yoga and meditation. As a result I am not dead.

When God created Republicans, he gave up on everything else.

The people who gave up their humanity to save their planet was always very interesting to me.

In her new book, Sarah Palin says she once gave up chocolate for an entire year just to prove she could do it. Still think she's not qualified to be President?

In the end, the difference between a published writer and an unpublished one comes down to one thing: The unpublished writer gave up, and the published writer didn't.

I discovered that a diplomat's life is largely entertaining and meeting people. At the end of the day there's nothing. So I gave up.

Then from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat, so he gave up being king of the wild things.

I was willing to pay any price including subservience to secure this love, hoping that with each piece of myself I gave up he would be so pleased that he, too, would be transformed.

I've never been in parliament as a National, I gave up smoking about the same time [and] I've rid myself of two cancers.

I never gave up, even when people told me I'd never make it.

Hillary Clinton has made a lot of dough out of being a politician. I gave up dough to be a politician. I'm sure that Ronald Reagan gave up dough to be a politician.

I gave up that idea of trying to make music that I thought other people would want. I just made music for myself and music for people that I knew.

My mother gave up a good part of her career to look after me.

I gave up language for a while, and I started painting.And then I only listened to Miles Davis and other instrumental music to see how it felt to be without words.

I've learned that if you wait long enough, you might get a second chance at something you gave up on. And sometimes you'll be the one to give the second chance to someone else.

...I gave up on being a journalist - I thought having a point of view was more important than being objective.

I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.

I gave up something I wanted for something I need. And I need you, Angel. More than I think you'll ever know.

I didn’t accept your sacrifice. I turned it down.” I felt a small Oh form at my mouth, but it never quite made it past my lips. “Are you saying you gave up getting a human body for me?

I've had to come through a lot and I've made a lot of different mistakes, but I realized that I never gave up. I wanted to so badly.

I gave up my base in popular culture when I left the Tonight Show.

I used to smoke cigarettes, ten a day, but gave up when I was 28. Now my vice is several cups of coffee a day, which isn't great if you're prone to weak bones as I am, as caffeine can leach calcium.

But I never gave up personal things to work, never.

I know so many writers who are a hundred times better than me and have longer, greater ideas than mine, but they gave up; they stopped. The biggest talent you can have is determination.