Stood Up Quotes

Stood Up Quote of the day

When people saw what had happened to my son, men stood up who had never stood up before.

You asked me if I ever stood up for anything. Yeah, I stood up for my life.

Mary Kom is a woman who stood up alone in a male-dominated field and fought for her rights and what she believed in. Her story is an inspiration for every young person out there.

How would you like it if, at your job, every time you made the slightest mistake a little red light went on over your head and 18,000 people stood up and screamed at you?

A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.

If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything.

I'm proud of the fact that I stood up early and unequivocally in opposition to Bush's foreign policy. [...] That opposition hasn't changed.

Whatever we say here today is not against any party or person. We are not here to do politics. I have not stood up here to save a government... we want swaraaj, the people's rule, in Delhi.

I would love for people to be able to think of me as a guy who stood up for what he believed in and helped make a difference for the vets.

I've always stood up for country music.

I've stood up to producers before, and even a director. I saw them being abusive. A lot of people on the set are scared to say stuff when they're not being treated right.

I don't want to be remembered as the girl who was shot. I want to be remembered as the girl who stood up.

If you look at our records, I stood up to corporate America time and time again. I went to Mexico. I saw the lives of people who were working in American factories and making $0.25 an hour.

Light-leaved acacias, by the door, Stood up in balmy air, Clusters of blossomed moonlight bore, And breathed a perfume rare.

The Chinese people have stood up.

I was brought up in a household where you stood up to be counted.

No one ever found out what was happening inside me. How the pain was eating me away. No one ever came to my rescue, or stood up for me.

When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause.

I stood up for myself as I always have done. Nobody has ever told Coco Chanel what to think.

Even though me and Paul Ryan disagree on a whole lot of things, when he stood up and confronted those ugly words that [Donald] Trump said, I was proud of him.

The snake stood up for evil in the Garden.

Jimmy Snuka stood up, 25 feet in the air, drove his knee through my ribs, but did I allow them to carry me out on a strecher? NO! I got right up and walked out!

Not armies, not nations, have advanced the race; but here and there, in the course of ages, an individual has stood up and cast his shadow over the world.

Sonny Liston stood up to me and actually made me give ground. No one has ever done that to me before or since.

Bulgaria is a true friend of Israel, that stood up to save the Jewish people 70 years ago in Europe, and who stood by throughout the terror attack that took place in Burgas last July.

The Chairman likes you.” “Is that good?” “I never date anyone my cat doesn’t like,” Magnus said easily, and stood up.

I stood up. It was all too much. I could not even meet my own expectations, and to be asked to deal with all theirs too was suffocating.

I'm just about equality, period. It's not like, I'm a woman, women should be in charge! I just want there to be equality for everybody.

I got stood up by the letter Y, he was hanging around with his X.

Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations. But it was the conservatives, Republicans, that stood up against him.

But, I don't belong to anyone...but myself.

When I stood up there as a pinch hitter, I honestly believed I was the best hitter in the game. That's the only attitude to have.

The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word.

There's a good deal in Pound's and Eliot's poetry that stood up even though their politics were deplorable. Or Pound's very deplorable, Eliot's kind of deplorable.

If a government commission had worked on the horse, you would have the first horse that could operate its knee joint in both directions. The trouble is it couldn't have stood up.

I think people know Steve Jobs the showman. I think people know the guy who stood up and gave the keynotes. The magician. The salesman.

It wasn't so bad being a slave when your owner was yourself and stood up for you.

Sydney sighed and stood up, smoothing her rumpled clothes with dismay. ʺI need a coffee shop or something.ʺ ʺI think I saw one in a cave down the road,ʺ I said. That almost got a smile from her

Just because you have a group of scientists who stood up and said here is the fact. Galileo got outvoted for a spell.

The lie was dead And damned, and truth stood up instead.

I don’t think I will get married,” Polly said as she stood up. “I’m going to train to be a hero instead.

I never would've imagined in the first part of my life that I could've stood up and said anything. The war in Vietnam changed me. I was so angry. Some of my speeches probably weren't well considered.

Writers vary tremendously. Was it Tom Wolfe who stood up or was it [Ernest] Hemingway who had to stand up? I don't know.

My dad's era believed that there was something noble in being a good guy - the kind of guy that lived straight and narrow, told the truth, and stood up for what he believed was right.

Putin's an egomaniac, so there are two ways he can process his ego mania. He can say, "Oh, I stood up to the U.S.," or, "Hey, I'm essential to the world order."

I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things

Because she’s Acheron companion. (Astrid) Ash has a companion? (Zarek) (The demon snorted. She stood up and whispered loudly in Astrid’s ear.) Dark-Hunters are cute, but very stupid. (Simi)

Peter stood up and let a wicked smile slide across his face. "Time to play.

And on this you have my pledge - unlike in the past, when you stood up and did what was right, this governor will not pull the rug out from underneath you - I will sign strong reform bills.

He was standing leaning against the door frame; now he stood up straight. "How should I have kissed you? Is there an other way you like it?