My parent's divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn't necessarily have had otherwise. Use this quote
I play with my grandchildren. I tend to my garden, which I love. Of course, I love to read, and family is really what it's all about. Use this quote
Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me. Use this quote
I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being. Use this quote
I think, my generation, it's hard to have hope when you got a $700-trillion derivatives debt to pay and a bubble about to explode and $500 trillion worth of GDP. Use this quote
There's all these ways to instantly communicate - cars, computers, telephone and transportation - and even with all that, it's so hard to find people and have an honest communication with them. Use this quote
Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does. Use this quote
Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today? Use this quote
I did get a degree in special education. Use this quote
I never had any real expectations about what sort of success I would have or all the publicity. Use this quote
Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. Use this quote
It's hard now to imagine that kind of travel and the daily tasks they simply took for granted. If a wagon axle broke, you had to stop and carve a new one. To cross a river, you sometimes had to build a raft. Use this quote
We could hardly wait to get up in the morning. Use this quote
Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want - the want of money. Use this quote
I hope I did it the way my peers did it before me. I didn't do anything but try to play hard. Use this quote
To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious? Use this quote
Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn't so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that. Use this quote
Nothing is ever for sure, but when something in love doesn't work from the beginning, it's never going to work. Don't push it. Use this quote
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. Use this quote
Let me be clear. I support the definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman. Use this quote
